socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2021

Financial details of the acquisition of MomentFeed were not announced. According to Uberall, the acquisition was made as part of a $115M investment from Bregal Milestone, Level Equity, and United Internet. Uberall said it will continue to have a significant sales, service and engineering footprint in California.

Draper 113

Draper Equity Acquisition Los Angeles 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Los Angeles-based Leads360 reported today that it has linked its sales lead management software with offerings from web-based mortgage software firm Optimal Blue. Leads360 is backed by Rustic Canyon Partners, and is headed by Dan Morefield, who was CIO of Overture Services before its acquisition by Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

Rustic Canyon 154

Rustic Canyon Software CIO SaaS 154

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 !=

Metrics 150

Metrics Startup SaaS Custom 150

Xconomy

MAY 8, 2018

In the eight years since it was founded, Seismic has become a leader in the market for Web-based software used by corporations and other big customers to manage the online marketing materials created to support sales reps in the field. Financial terms of the deal are being withheld, according to Seismic CEO Doug Winter.

Sales 70

Sales Software San Diego Web 70

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

What Swoop does, is we build technology for them, SaaS tools, which allow them to run their businesses more effectively. Part of our team is working on partnerships and sales with big companies like Netflix, Google, and others who require group transportation. They book through Swoop, which leads to those operators.

SaaS 113

SaaS Startup Tool Doc 113

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

“The only success criteria of my startup career is whether GrubMarket can eventually make $100 billion of annual sales,” he said to me over both email and in a phone conversation. It has made some 15 acquisitions in the last two years, including Boston Organics and EJ Food Distributor this year.

Technical Review 343

Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In 2020, the pandemic radically changed the customer acquisition process for many consumer-facing industries. Nick helped orchestrate the successful sale of the company to Velocify partner and leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry, Ellie Mae. Contact our editors for details.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Software Review Organic Search Startup 140

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed. Tags: entcomm saas software merger acquisition take supply chain. Gardena-based EntComm , a developer of software-as-a-service products, has sold its product division to a Indian software firm, TAKE Solutions.

Gardena 100

Gardena Offshore SaaS Software 100

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California. Semick: They are. That causes friction internally.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

Although this is a somewhat unusual real estate transaction, it reflects a surprisingly common scenario in the business world of mergers and acquisitions, with one important distinction. My House Is Not For Sale. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. We were not rude nor indignant.

Company 100

Company Companies Santa Barbara Pricing 100

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

The business model, is people use this to do better marketing and sales targeting when they sell their own products. The company has grown very rapidly and well for a startup, but we're now at the point where sales is the name of the game. Prior to that, for seven years I was at Citrix in Santa Barbara, at their SaaS division.

Santa Barbara 113

Santa Barbara High Tech Outsource Development Startup 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

“the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. I’m not saying don’t hire sales staff or market your products aggressively. __. faux·men·tum.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Venture Capital Custom 150

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

The company is now focused on providing a platform to help streamline deals like asset sales, financings, and mergers & acquisitions, according to the company. CapLinked is headed by Eric M.

Services 218

Services Venture Capital Equity Los Angeles 218

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2012

Financial terms of the sale have not been announced. ExpenseCloud's management team, including both co-founder and CEO Eric Sikola and co-founder and CTO Dan Fritcher, will join TriNet as part of the acquisition. According to TriNet, it will incorporate ExpenseCloud's offering into its client service platform later in 2012.

Resource 150

Resource Report Acquisition Los Angeles 150

InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

During my tenure at Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting), one of my responsibilities was leading our online marketing, a role I retained until our eventual acquisition by Citrix. At Rincon Venture Partners , we have a laser focus on identifying groundbreaking adtech and business productivity SaaS solutions.

Content 171

Content Platform Paid Search OpenX 171

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

CapLinked's platform is being targeted at businesses running things such as asset sales, financings, and mergers & acquisitions; the firm is backed by FF Angel, Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, and Peter Thiel. READ MORE>>.

Platform 147

Platform Software Development Web Acquisition 147

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. 24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica.

Tech Coast Angels 105

Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. You mentioned that you've been growing the company recently, and made a recent acquisition? Did the TV stimulate search?

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%.

Startup 383

Startup Company Companies .Net 383

InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

billion dollar acquisition by LinkedIn to Bessemer’s substantial investment in ProCore , AppFolio ’s recent IPO filing and Sonos ’ $130 million secondary, the Santa Barbara tech scene is unquestionably on fire. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5 In 1995, Deckers purchased the UGGS brand for $16 million. What's SUP? –

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Startup Sales Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand has hired investment banking firms Centerview Partners and Goldman Sachs, in a move that could result in either a sale of the company, or help in fighting off an activist investor, according to a report.

Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Cornerstone OnDemand Invest Software Review Report 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

Thus, we became one of the first ASP (aka SaaS) companies, by selling subscriptions of our screen sharing technology to customer service departments – the same market segment which had adopted BuddyHelp. We then sorted these email addresses by company and initiated targeted sales campaigns wherever we identified a critical mass of users.

Customer 162

Customer Custom Technical Support Startup 162

InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

In contrast, TaxJar, a SaaS solution which makes automates online sales tax calculations, reporting and filings, is an entirely virtual company. He then joined Picasa and was instrumental in its acquisition by Google. Some companies allow employees to work remotely one day a week or on an ad hoc basis.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Email Outsource Development 100

socalTECH

JULY 8, 2015

Cisco said the move would help it partners capture high-volume and low-dollar sales opportunities that may risk being overlooked. MaintenanceNet develops cloud-based software used by companies to manage the renewal of service contracts and maintenance contracts, automatically handling quoting, notifications, and also online renewals.

Outsource Development 100

Outsource Development Sales Services Software 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

With this acquisition, that has put Concur into SAP. It's not about pouring those dollars into a hundred new sales reps and just selling the heck out of things--as an enterprise player, you have to grow sales in accordance with engineering and our QA department, with implementation services, and support.

Software 100

Software Report Startup IBM 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Because I built two SaaS companies and sold my second one to Salesforce.com (where I then took on the role of VP Products) I am often asked to look at SaaS and/or sales-oriented deals for others. Anything requiring lead generation and/or customer acquisition I call Matt Coffin.

Guide 293

Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The firm said it will not receive any proceeds from the sale by the selling stockholders. San Diego-based ServiceNow is looking to sell $300M in a secondary IPO offering, according to a filing made by the company Wednesday. ServiceNow went public in June, pricing at $18.00 per share; the firm is now trading around $30.65

San Diego 138

San Diego Equity Pricing Sales 138

Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

MindBodyOnline is a terrifically succesful SaaS company, based in San Luis Obispo, that provides scheduling and transactional software for Yoga studios, hair salons, and spas. What a breath of fresh air. After hearing that comment, you know they are going to continue to succeed.

Customer 97

Customer Custom Software Review SaaS 97

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We have built SocialStay for scale so I think the ‘chasm’ is both a function of time and sales. 8 ) SocialStay is effectively a B-to-B, SaaS product that requires you to simultaneously speak to several audiences (hotels, travelers, travel sites, etc.). You don’t need much… But what you do need is sales. from the Wharton School.

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

For instance, if the BDC were to bundle your solution with one sold via its VARs, such a partnership might result in incremental VAR sales. Whenever they are unable to close a sale, they maximize the impact of the interaction by asking for the name of another prospect. The key to obtaining such soft referrals is to ask for them.

Company 124

Company Companies Email Press 124

Berkonomics

JUNE 4, 2015

Typical examples are software as a service (SaaS) models, or any kind of content-driven subscription model. Especially for a provider of a virtual good or service, costs of goods sold do not scale with sales, as they do in the real world. If you get back customer acquisition costs in one year, you’re doing great.

Acquisition 120

Acquisition Customer Custom SaaS 120

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

B2B Demand Generation on Auto-Pilot – Metadata analyzes your inbound signups and automates b2b user acquisition by targeting new look-alike prospects. SaaS for Cloud application lifecycle management. Sales Huddle Group. A SaaS Platform to help online stores in Brazil create their own loyalty program. AngelList: [link].

Startup 40

Startup Training SaaS Walnut 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurism, SaaS. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization music, Revenue, Sales. . Sales of mobi. Michael Coté, RedMonk.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69