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Recurring revenues: Oil or glue?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] Well, there are two problems here. An exception: SaaS companies. The customers are happy and the company profitable. What’s not to like? The result of “profit only” thinking. The company dooms itself to a slow death over the passage of time as customers desert to newer products.

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j2 Global Raising $300M In Convertible Notes For Acquisitions, Growth

socalTECH

j2 Global did not say how much of that capital would go towards acquisitions, however, the company has been a ravenous acquirer of companies across the Internet fax, virtual phone, hosted email, online backup, and other cloud services. backup cloud saas software efax capital acquisition merger j2global' READ MORE>>.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you.

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GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage

TechCrunch LA

The funding is coming from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment, Celtic House Venture Partners, Marubeni Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, Mojo Partners alongside with previous investors GGV Capital, WI Harper Group, Digital Garage, CentreGold Capital , Scrum Ventures, and other unnamed participants.

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Sendio Launches Hosted Service

socalTECH

Sendio is venture backed by Athenian Venture Partners, Vicente Capital Partners, Shepherd Ventures and Momentum Venture Management. Tags: sendio saas software email spam filtering appliance. The new service is being delivered from a data center in Orange County. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

socalTECH

Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital. All of the big SaaS movement was causing this problem with business processes and data. They end up either calling or emailing, and someone literally takes that same content, and manually enters it into a trouble ticket in a system like ServiceNow.

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SendGrid Sets Up Shop In Anaheim

socalTECH

Cloud-based, email infrastructure provider SendGrid , which develops cloud software to help businesses more easily deliver emails to customers, has set up shop in Anaheim, California, the firm said Wednesday.

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