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SaaS Is Dead, Long Live Software

InfoChachkie

However, the adjective “electric” was eventually dropped when all the devices in a product category utilized the technology. It’s high time we kill the term Software As A Service (SaaS) and call it what it is – software. You’re not a SaaS company, you’re a software company. You’re not a SaaS investor, you’re a software investor.

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What I Learned In 2015: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

socalTECH

Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015. Frost & Sullivan just named MediaPlatform the product leader in enterprise video platforms. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015?

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Until we weren’t.

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GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage

TechCrunch LA

GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

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Interview with Andrew Schydlowsky, TrackStreet: Brand Protection Using AI

socalTECH

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. What is TrackStreet? It allows us to start peeling the onion.

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

socalTECH

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. We took it to the market in January of 2015. He comes from a SaaS background, and enterprise software.

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How mPulse Is Using Your Smartphone To Improve Health Care

socalTECH

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. That will drive the next products that we roll out.

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