Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

<== Our conclusion was that this isn’t a temporary blip that will swiftly trend-back up in a V-shaped recovery of valuations but rather represented a new normal on how the market will price these companies somewhat permanently. First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2016

Car companies spend a significant amount of money on superficial design features, including the timbre of the sound emitted when a car door is shut. In the early 2000’s, SaaS was a nascent concept and most companies were reticent to rent software. Users, on the other hand, immediately saw the benefits of SaaS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. It’s why opt-in marketing databases can be so incredibly valuable for companies like Gilt Groupe, One King’s Lane and AdoreMe. Much more data in the full post. Enter phone calls.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2009

Pasadena-based Central Desktop has jumped into the enterprise micro-blogging area, saying Monday that it has launched a new tool which allows companies to use Twitter-style updates within the firm's project management software. Tags: twitter microblogging desktop central saas software yammer. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

ServiceNow, one of the most valuable software companies ever founded in San Diego, launched in 2003, before enterprise software-as-a-service became a topic of mainstream discussion. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

MAY 2, 2019

Blueprint Equity managing partners Sheldon Lewis and Bobby Ocampo, 30-somethings who are part of a new generation of investors in San Diego, said Thursday that the firm had invested $6 million in Sunwave, a Florida-based company that makes software for substance abuse treatment centers. Lewis was mostly recently with San.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

Although this is a core competency that must be honed over time, there is a cadre of SaaS hiring tools that the world’s leading tech companies deploy to their advantage. The company launched its social media management system in 2008, growing to over 4 million users by the start of 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

Let’s say you have built a SaaS company where a large part of the early revenue comes from a few big customers or a large part of the revenue is services based vs. software based. The investor is a customer and they have money to spend but only for a limited number of companies. Let me give you an example.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2018

Reachify, founded in 2015 and based in San Diego, targets medical groups with software-as-a-service (SaaS) that consolidates phone, e-mail, social media, and other electronic communications into a centralized hub and collaborative workplace.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Companies being created has continued to go up dramatically making managing dealflow nearly impossible. In the market we’ve seen the massive uptick of SaaS valuations in the public markets and commensurate attention on private market fundings and valuations. Thank you to the companies that went through transitions this year.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

When I publicly Tweeted that all companies should be gross margin positive many people pointed out that Amazon wasn’t profitable for many years. 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). Gross margin positive !=

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

Thus, entrepreneurs must decide when to stop listening to the Sirens’ song of a quick buck and position their company to take advantage of long-term, sustainable business models. Below are descriptions of three companies which each faced short-term, lucrative opportunities. Bad Profits. Arbitrage Is Fleeting.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2018

CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

CEO Randy Apuzzo said Zesty changed from a Web development firm to to SaaS in 2015, with the guidance of successful entrepreneurs like GoFundMe co-founder Andy Ballester, Rocket League video game creator Dave Hagewood, and Facebook early operations engineer Taner Halicioglu. The company, which now has nine full-time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

In his words, [in some instances] “because lots of capital is available, the company takes on the capital and that ends up resulting in no constraints on decision making and so the company decides to do five things in stead of just one.” You are defined by how you serve the companies that are struggling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. He first worked hard to get him to be an advisor to the company. Cialdini who is also author of a very well received book called “ Influence &# (which I plan to read).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

We spoke with Matt Kumin , the company's founder and CEO--who was formerly an executive at Edmunds.com--to learn about the company's products. We're a content curation platform, software-as-a-service for content, and we are focused on helping companies engage their customer more directly using content.

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socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2012

In a blog post, X1 said that the update was not just another company "re-branding the companys software as cloud" but is actually fully deployable and accepted as a part of the Amazon AWS ISV program. X1 Discovery's software is used to meet legal discovery and investigation requirements.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I follow Jason Lemkin closely (he’s a long-time friend) and he speaks frequently and passionately about SaaS businesses having built a successful one himself. His blog is even called SaaStr (a bit too close to Suster if you ask me ;-)). Roger Ehrenberg with big data and also financial technology companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. Yet as obvious as it is to create messaging for your company, many people don’t consider their personal brands.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

Jackson, said over the weekend that it has debuted a new feature which lets companies embed a "raising capital" badge on their website or blog. The badge links back to CapLinked's site and a company's profile. The firm said the new link would make it easier for potential advisors, investors, and others to contact a company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you raise millions of dollars from professional investors it is no longer “your” company but a shared company that you control. In the Early Days.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2014

Review the company''s press releases, the recipient''s LinkedIn profile, etc. This can be a blog article that helped you make a particular decision or a link in a Tweet that you found helpful. BCC Email – If you don''t have your target''s email address, review the press releases issued by their company. Congratulations.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It’s stating the obvious to say that great teams matter and that cultivating them will drive higher company performance vs. a group of individual contributors. My observation is that many companies become Game of Thrones with warring factions and competing interests. The best leaders I work with tend to obsess about teams.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2011

Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked , which operates a software service to help companies communicate with investors, is one of the firms caught by the widespread Amazon EC2 downtime today. CapLinked said in its blog that its site is temporarily unavailable due to Amazon's hosting service issues.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

Unlike many viral marketing events, the company''s latest guerilla marketing stunt was not luck. As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Geo was a lightly veiled reference to Geocities, a Web 1.0

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2015

Unfortunately, many of these companies fail to properly monetize such non-paying users. Anyone, including well-healed, large companies, could offer state-of-the-art technical support for free. This is a risky, as many of your users will be initially introduced to your company via your free offering. Let''s face it.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

Unlike many viral marketing events, the company''s latest guerilla marketing stunt was not luck. As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Geo was a lightly veiled reference to Geocities, a Web 1.0

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The following guest post is from Dan Monarko, Online Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Go With Your Gut.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Hulme, blogging at Cloud Commons , believes that the cloud will spur a jobs explosion, though the jobs descriptions will differ. All types of IT expertise will be needed at SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS providers as well as independent software vendors [ISVs],” he said. Finally, IT security expertise will remain important.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2012

The following guest post is from Eric Gaydos, Buzz Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2012

The following guest post is from Laurie Barkman, Marketing Lead at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. All the companies that graduate from the accelerator’s program work from the same office and can literally reach out and touch their investors at any time. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

blog here ). We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). Same as I felt.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. Digital Media was an obvious theme because it’s one in which LA (where I’m based) and NY (where I spend a lot of time) have strong assets, companies and management teams. Why Pay-Per-Call?

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