socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

Now, Frost has set up shop buildling out a whole series of companies in the industry, and we caught up with him to learn more about the companies (Predixion Software, Cirro, Lineage, Kumo, etc.) What's the idea behind the incubator? So, I set out a little bit in an ad-hoc way starting companies as ideas came to me.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Having a great idea in the wrong place won’t get you the funding you need, the experienced domain experts you want, or the pilot market results you need for survival.

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Technical Review Oracle Software Review Ideas 123

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

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Jack Bicer: I''ve been in the software development business for over 30 years. My two previous inventions, uninstall and automatic software updates, run on every computer and smartphone today. I''ve been involved in custom software and payment processing for a long time. That''s a really dumb idea, go do your job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Almost every entrepreneur and new business owner I mentor is certain that his/her idea has a very high probability of success, and all find it hard to believe that ninety percent of startups ultimately fail. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills. Needed help can be your biggest burden.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Small Business Grants to Apply For Today If your business doesn't have enough capital to take on future debts or has a unique specialism or back story that could catch the eye of grantors, it might be a good idea to apply for a grant. For those considering this financing option – Bank of America will be a good place to start.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Astadia will be merged with Idea , a current portfolio company of The Gores Group. Astadia serves enterprise customers, helping them build cloud-based software; the firm says it has 2,600 clients using its services. Financial details of the transaction were not announced. Astadia was based in Dallas, Texas. READ MORE>>.

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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. Greathouse: How did you come up with the idea for ProductPlan?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Startup founders are known for their passion for their startup idea, and for their passion to kill every competitor. For example, I once worked for a small software company selling a sophisticated enterprise workflow solution. Good strategic partnerships often lead to strategic investments, or great acquisition relationships.

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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. MediaLab said it has “some ideas” for developing Kik going forwards, including making the app faster and reducing the amount of unwanted messages and spam bots.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

As the founder of an accelerator, I'm constantly being approached by ambitious people with big ideas, and generally we invest in 1/100th of what comes to us. 12 major acquisitions this year putting it over 100 since 05. It is the number one reason why entrepreneurs have to pivot on their ideas and why small businesses fail quickly.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

Perhaps the most misused terms I see these days from entrepreneurs involve CAC (customer acquisition costs) and LTV (life time value) and a lack of understanding these critical components is driving many companies to premature failure. CAC is often measured incorrectly and doesn’t often doesn’t capture the true costs of acquisition.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The exit through acquisition by ReliaQuest is the first of what we expect will be many exits for our Fund 1 portfolio. The podcast ecosystem continues to grow and Im excited to see this content medium continue to change the way people receive information and share new ideas.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The software does most of the job of vetting the tutor, but once that tutor is visible and our team knows they are interested in the job, that's where the hands-on touch comes into play. There's a lot more intricacy going into those algorithms and how the preferences work, but that's the general idea. That's a great question.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2010

I’ve talked before about initial conversations with founders and the questions I’m likely going to ask Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. And you definitely should have ideas around important proof points for the business. Good founders will have ideas about all of these at a fine grain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Having a great idea in the wrong place won’t get you the funding you need, the experienced domain experts you want, or the pilot market results you need for survival.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

This acquisition resolved the surgical robotic IP landscape and allowed Intuitive to dominate the market. PTO examiners consider a very narrow set of criteria which does not include the commercial efficacy of an idea. In addition, a BDC may have developed derivative IP that on a standalone basis infringes on the startup’s IP.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2012

BetterWorks--headed by prolific angel investor Paige Craig--apparently was not able to sustain a large enough market, relative to its high costs of customer acquisition. We have no idea. We have no idea. Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies - Also in November, we published.

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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. So, operators both are getting software to run their businesses, as well as new leads. The company recently announced $3.2M in a seed funding round.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. That took quite a bit of investment in organic growth and acquisitions.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

However, savvy startups can leverage LinkedIn to create a customer acquisition and a churn reduction tool. It’s not about helping them use our software. Treating customers as true collaborators helps breakdown the Us vs. Them dynamic that is often present between software vendors and their customers.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

We had our fourth anniversary in May, and we passed out checks from the Helixis acquisition to our LPs, which was a pleasant delight. Technology, with ease of use, software systems, and information technology--is at the point where it's finally at a point of maturity, and we're finally seeing some traction in healthcare IT.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2010

What does CatchPoint's software do? Mehdi Daoudi: The idea is very simple. 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. This is available as Software-as-a-Service? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Having a great idea in the wrong place won’t get you the funding you need, the experienced domain experts you want, or the pilot market results you need for survival.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Ken Button: I am a corporate attorney, and started in private practice at O'Melvany and Myers, and later served as General Counsel for a software business. We have been around software for a long time. Ken Button: I think that often, the best business ideas are borne from your own experience and frustrations.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

It's not all that often that you hear of a local startup being acquired after only raising less than $1M in funding, because the company was growing so fast, rather than because an idea didn't pan out. Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Having a great idea in the wrong place won’t get you the funding you need, the experienced domain experts you want, or the pilot market results you need for survival.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. In my experience, this has been really hard to do successfully.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the core pieces of that technology was around marketing and customer acquisition. One of the venture capitalists we had met along the way, hearing that we had sold YLighting, asked us what we were doing now, and because they liked the software so much told us to count him in, he'd write a check right now, and that's what we did.

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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. We have programs for companies where they can add and subtract employees, track employee’s learning progress, or offer company-wide access to get everyone up to speed on all the latest software and technologies.”. 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. We have programs for companies where they can add and subtract employees, track employee’s learning progress, or offer company-wide access to get everyone up to speed on all the latest software and technologies.”. Hello Kitty!”.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

But billions of dollars in acquisitions will be left by the side of the road. Merck also saw some expected fruits of its 2014 big-ticket acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals wither away this week, as the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse a decision that shaved years off the patent life of the top-selling antibiotic daptomyicin (Cubicin).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Having a great idea in the wrong place won’t get you the funding you need, the experienced domain experts you want, or the pilot market results you need for survival.

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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.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In the case of Los Angeles-based Laffster (www.laffster.com), you apply software algorithms, science, and research to figure it all out. Daniel Altman: For us, it's about user acquisition, and working on the technology. We spoke with Daniel Altman, the CEO of the company, to learn more. What's the business model behind Laffster?

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Content News Startup Research 230

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It's all about post-acquisition, and having a great relationship with our users for the length of the term. It's all about post acquisition. The idea here was that mobility was going to change dramatically, and that there were many people in the new, next cohort and younger generation who wanted to see something different.

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