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John Greathouse: What I Learned In 2014

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Over the holidays, we''re featuring a few reflections on 2014 from some of the movers and shakers in Southern California''s technology industry. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014? Didn''t learn it in 2014, but several times over the year we were reminded that a great team can make chicken salad out of chicken $hit.

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Why SaaS is Exploding: A whitepaper

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Dave Key and Technology Council of Southern California Virtually everyone agrees the SaaS market is growing incredibly quickly; Gartner predicted cloud growth would be 21% in 2011. IDC predicts SaaS growth at 25.3% CAGR through 2014.

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Why SaaS is Exploding: A whitepaper

Technology Council

Dave Key and Technology Council of Southern California Virtually everyone agrees the SaaS market is growing incredibly quickly; Gartner predicted cloud growth would be 21% in 2011. IDC predicts SaaS growth at 25.3% CAGR through 2014.

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What am I Thankful for This Year?

Both Sides of the Table

You’ve had a few difficult years outside of work – I feel confident 2014 is going to be a great one! In the market we’ve seen the massive uptick of SaaS valuations in the public markets and commensurate attention on private market fundings and valuations. I feel confident in our 2014 plans.

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A Great Discussion with @skupor @davemcclure @msuster on Changes in the VC Industry

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We both agree that the later-stage valuations are being driven up to a point that feels irrationally priced [he uses b-round SaaS valuations as an example and I am willing to be even more broad based]. But here is the deck I used to present before our panel if you haven’t seen it already: Final 2014 pre money deck from Mark Suster.

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socalTECH Jobs: Job Highlights for August 7th, 2014

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Our proprietary CLX platform is an enterprise-class, SaaS automation capability set, that partners can private label to package, sell, deliver and manage a broad portfolio of products and services.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Bolsters Board

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Cavanaugh had served in his position at Concur since 1999 until its acquisition by SAP in 2014. cornerstone ondemand employee talent management software saas cloud executive board concur' The company said it named Robert Cavanaugh, the former president of worldwide enterprise, SMB and government for Concur Technologies, to its board.