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Four Innovative SaaS To Get Excited About

Tech Zulu Event

SaaS – or Software as a Service – platforms are all the rage. Essentially a business model where software is licensed and distributed from a central location, SaaS companies can now be found in telecoms, human resources, and more. RelinkLabs is a pioneering HR SaaS tool based in Scandinavia. RelinkLabs.

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socalTECH Jobs: Job Highlights for August 7th, 2014

socalTECH

THIS ROLE REQUIRES DEEP EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND RELATIONSHIPS IN THE IT SERVICES, TELECOM, CLOUD AND HOSTING MARKET. 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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A Great Discussion with @skupor @davemcclure @msuster on Changes in the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

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]. Scott spoke about the a16z ethos to put more of the fees investors pay into “services” rather than partner pockets.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

billion by 2014. The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. I don’t want to speak to customer service reps!! Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). There are 2.9 Not so fast.

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Software Startup Portfolium Acquired by Salt Lake City’s Instructure

Xconomy

Founded in 2014 by CEO Adam Markowitz, Portfolium sells academic institutions access to what it calls its ePortfolio network, which, along with hosting student portfolios, also offers student assessments and job matching services. No financial terms of the deal, which was announced Tuesday, were disclosed.

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Interview with Mike Whitmire, CEO and Co-founder, FloQast

socalTECH

The company, which started in 2014, now has over 40 employees. I moved over to work in software-as-a-service, at Cornerstone OnDemand, before its IPO. Mike Whitmire: We put the first version of our software out in 2014, and got a couple of beta clients. He comes from a SaaS background, and enterprise software.

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Interview with Dan LeBlanc, CEO and Co-founder, Daasity

socalTECH

The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms. How we do hat, is we've built an analytics platform, Daasity, for data-as-a-service. In 2014, there were a few hundred stores running on Shopify, as the e-commerce market was quite fragmented.

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