socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2014

What technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015? More vertical market SaaS solutions show just how big that opportunity is currently and will be in the future. 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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Santa Barbara-based Anchore , which is developing security software aimed at the "container" market, has raised $5M in a funding round, the company disclosed this morning. The funding came from local angel Andreas von Blottnitz, along with Doug Carlisle of Menlo Ventures. Anchore is led by Said Ziouani, a veteran of Eucalyptus and Ansible.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Los Angeles-based finance and accounting automation software developer BlackLine reports this morning that it added 393 new customers in 2015 and now has over 1300 customers around the world. BlackLine said that among the biggest area of growth for the company were mid-market companies, in addition to its existing large enterprise base.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

The job market, too, will feel a significant impact from cloud computing technology. All types of IT expertise will be needed at SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS providers as well as independent software vendors [ISVs],” he said. The post Future of The Cloud is Bright | Just Ask the Market appeared first on TechZulu.

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Cloud Computing Marketing CIO Organization 85

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. We then allow them to understand the true potential velocity of markets online.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit. In addition to an Undergraduate Certificate, the Program is launching a Master of Technology Management degree in 2015. The company quickly pivoted to create a SaaS solution and in less than two years later, it was acquired by Intuit for $30 million.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

They've solved it at the enterprise paint point, where we are at the mid-market. Our product was built specifically for the mid market, and we've been riding the wave of IT budgets, which are starting to open up, and companies are really quickly signing up because this is a big pain point, from their perspective.

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Startup Cornerstone OnDemand Software Review Woodland Hills 124

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2016

mPulse was formed in April of 2015, as a spinoff of a company called mobileStorm, which has been in mobile marketing and communications for the last fifteen years. It's a pretty diverse set of customers, who are all driven of our SaaS-based, contact engine we have created. It's a highly competitive market. What is mPulse?

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Mobile Southern California Startup Marketing 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. how to market our products and company. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

Our perspectives on the topic wax and wane with market cycles. If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. Money when you find product / market fit is an extreme differentiator. VC funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.” You need to invest in good markets and bad. You can’t time VC investing markets. That always stuck with me. .” That always stuck with me.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

It is an heroic accomplishment in a brutal fund-raising market in which only market leaders can bring in that sort of money. Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x But of course public markets had begun gyrating.

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Funding Startup SaaS Venture Capital 150

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

However, starting in 2015, we found that creating this was really hard. We've had a very small round, and it was pretty full, of between $1M and $2M around March, and we're using that to beef up our marketing and hire one more engineer. We'd get 20 percent, because we had a real estate license to collect that.

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Sales Startup Email Tool 145

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Batch 15 is a group of scrappy start-ups that explores unusual markets, including postpartum care (Mahmee), underwater robots, airplane maintenance, and even crocheting. Fun Fact: Beeketing is named from Bi (beloved dog of Alice) and Marketing (our interest). Fun Fact: Preventing spreadsheet abuse since 2015 – one company at a time.

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Startup Training SaaS Walnut 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies. Can Investors Spook the Market into Falling?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

My long-time friend Jason Lemkin is on the verge of launching a spectacular SaaS conference called SaaStr this week. And as I’ve written about before – building a personal brand is extremely important in today’s competitive job market. Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 31, 2015. I had been doing SaaS for 7 years.

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