socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

San Luis Obispo-based MINDBODY , the developer of spa, beauty, fitness, and other booking software and services, has been acquired by Vista Equity Partners , in a deal worth $1.9 The acquisition comes only three years after MINDBODY's IPO on the NASDAQ as MB. billion, the two companies said on Christmas Eve.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Forge Technologies , a developer of software used for managing hourly employees, said this morning that it has acquired Los Angeles-based ShiftMe , a developer of "shift-swapping" apps. As part of the acquisition, Forge Technologies said it is moving its headquarters to Los Angeles. ShiftMe was led by CEO Megan Hottman. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2019

Corona, California-based Clubspeed , which develops software used to manage go karting tracks, race tracks, trampoline parks, and family entertainment centers, has been acquired by private equity investor Nadavon Capital Partners , the two said over the weekend. Financial terms of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

San Diego-based Email Copilot , which develops visualization, monitoring, reporting, and analysis of email deliverability data, has been acquired by Return Path , a New York-based developer of email data software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Al Bsharah, was co-founder and CEO of Email Copilot.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

Today's interview is with Ruben Schultz, the co-founder of Swoop (www.swoopapp.com), a new startup which develops software for limousine, party bus, and other transportation providers. They book through Swoop, which leads to those operators. So, operators both are getting software to run their businesses, as well as new leads.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

San Luis Obispo-based software maker Mindbody said on Tuesday that it plans to launch a secondary offering, selling 4,400,000 shares of its stock, or approximately $120M. Mindbody is a developer of cloud-based software, used by spas and other health and wellness businesses manage appointment bookings and clients. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2010

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , an online startup developing software to help link entrepreneurs with their investors, has raised $350,000 in an equity investment round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Jackson, who was a very early employee at PayPal, where he helped bootstrap marketing and early formation of the firm.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

Is the world ready for another event management software provider? Gregg Parise What we are doing, is we are going into the event management software space, and doing it through a platform technology. As you know, that company grew through lots of acquisitions, so they had a lot of technology debt.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based Goodreads.com , the online book recommendation and reviews community headed by Otis Chandler, announced Thursday that it has acquired Discovereads.com". Discovereads.com provides algorithmic book recommendation software, to help people find books they might be interested in. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Woodland Hills-based accounting software maker BlackLine Systems has moved one step closer to its IPO, saying this morning in a regulatory filing that it is expecting its IPO to price at betwen $13.00 Tucker is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and got her start as a software programmer years ago working on financial applications.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

LeisureLink , the developer of vacation rental booking software which was started in Pasadena, has shut down all of its operations, and laid off all of its staff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Thus I was pleased to see my own insights covered in a new book, “ Why Startups Fail ,” by Tom Eisenmann, a Harvard Business School professor, who has mentored many more entrepreneurs, and authored more than a hundred HBS case studies from real-world startups. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets/devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2019?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

LeisureLink , which develops vacation travel booking software and technology, and was started in the Los Angeles area, appears to have halted its service, telling its partners on Friday that it has suspended accepting new reservations as well as modifying existing reservations.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2010

What does CatchPoint's software do? If you can't book on Expedia, you go to Orbitz. If you can't buy a book on Amazon.com, you go to Buy.com. Why the need for your software -- aren't there tools out there that do this already? After the Google acquisition of DoubleClick, I decided to build my own company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

profitable and companies like Amazon who chose to focus on growth > profitability were not losing money on each book sale (ie they were gross margin positive). CAC is often measured incorrectly and doesn’t often doesn’t capture the true costs of acquisition. Customer acquisition cost. Gross margin positive !=

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : Lynda.com is: “The best, new, online way to learn how to use your software. 8 ) I love the fact that you literally “wrote the book” on web design, because it was a book you wanted to read and it didn’t yet exist. 7) The book Summerhill School greatly impacted you as a child. Hello Kitty!”.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : Lynda.com is: “The best, new, online way to learn how to use your software. 8 ) I love the fact that you literally “wrote the book” on web design, because it was a book you wanted to read and it didn’t yet exist. 7) The book Summerhill School greatly impacted you as a child. Hello Kitty!”.

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Entrepreneur Training Startup Web 245

socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. A Stanford alum, Aaron wrote the book on sales 2.0. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Popular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab. It echoes the same message from Kik’s chief executive Tim Livingston last week when he rebuffed earlier reports that the company would shut down amid an ongoing battle with the U.S.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

8 ) Although you wrote an excellent business book ( The Map Of Innovation ) that is consistently well received by my UCSB entrepreneurial students, I know you are not a huge fan of most business books. With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? from the Wharton School.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California. Who is Mr. Semick and what is ProductPlan all about?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

8 ) Although you wrote an excellent business book ( The Map Of Innovation ) that is consistently well received by my UCSB entrepreneurial students, I know you are not a huge fan of most business books. With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? from the Wharton School.

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 18, 2012

As IBM goes flash with its acquisition of Texas Memory Systems and the recent public launch of Data Collective for Big Data entrepreneurs DNA was the least expected move for storage. A Harvard researcher says data can now be stored in human DNA devices with more capacity to store exploding quantities of digital data.

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JavaScript IBM IBM Journal 72

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). I paid up for the diploma but can’t say that I saw better results.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet). Not necessarily.

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Xconomy

JULY 23, 2019

The HireAHelper site allows users to find, compare quotes and availability, and book local movers. Now Porch is adding HireAHelper’s independent moving services providers to its lineup of more than 250,000 professionals. Financial terms of. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Jackson added, “FinTech has traditionally lagged behind the innovation that’s happening in other areas of enterprise software. Jackson , “This financing round, coupled with hiring Adam Sroka as our head of technology, puts CapLinked in a position to further enhance our enterprise product offerings.”. 25 Years of Writing Code.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2017

Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes. Lymber was barely a year old when Mindbody (NASDAQ: MB ) announced recently that it acquired the San Diego mobile app developer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. Ever the community builder, Derek booked Clay to speak at his event but instead of interviewing him he asked me?—?somebody

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. But software companies often take longer to scale top-line revenue than retailers so it takes a while to cover your nut.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. and negotiated the company’s successful acquisition by Logitech, Inc., Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? Sam’s enthusiasm was infectious and his plans were bold.

Startup 286

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). How much money will airlines companies, hotel companies or event companies pay me as a referral or for booking?

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2016

While thinking about the parameters of traction, and how to measure it, I was impressed with a new book, “ Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth ” by Ash Maurya, a serial entrepreneur, and creator of the one-page business modelling tool Lean Canvas. Validate every key element of your business model.

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