InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. 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.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Tracy''s frank, pragmatic and somewhat controversial comments were presented as part of UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. If there''s a big market opportunity and something that customers really want, you''re probably not the only person who''s going to think of it.". I''ve seen well-funded companies fall apart.

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Competition SaaS Santa Barbara Entrepreneur 254

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online said this morning that it is in a definitive agreement to acquired Netviewer AG , a developer of software-as-a-service tools for business collaboration. The company said Netviewer has more than 18,000 customers using its products. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Santa Barbara Tool Software Customer 145

InfoChachkie

APRIL 24, 2012

Kim Kovaks, Founder and CEO OptionEase , recently spoke to a class of emerging entrepreneurs at UC Santa Barbara. With over 700 customers, OptionEase has become the leading enterprise class SaaS solution for stock option and equity compensation tracking and compliance. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Getting Fired.

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Startup Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Class 258

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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Santa Barbara SaaS Help Social Network 288

InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

Given TimeHop’s failed experiment, I was especially intrigued when I learned that a team of a dozen remote entrepreneurs hack the typical corporate structure and creates a company that generated nearly $100 million in revenue. To gather hands-on remote team building advice, I sought out two companies that have done it: TaxJar and FastSpring.

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Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Email Outsource Development 100

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. I always thought it was a great symbol of Big Dumb Company ignorance: carpet bombing the world with unwanted and unneeded disks.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

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. We will also have some of the top companies present that each of the panelist has invested in.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

At the end of the day, you want to be employed and you want to get a job, and this allows companies to look at what you've done, what your portfolio is, and speed up the interview process. After that, I was involved in a lot of angel investing, starting companies, and helping entrepreneurs to get going. How is the company funded?

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. Goliath” mythology take on the titans of industry and wins. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 363

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

The first of question is about qualifying your potential customers aka leads. Once a buyer decides they want to make a purchase the first thing most companies will do is check out what other options are out there to make sure they’re not making an uninformed decisions. It is the opposite of what SaaS is supposed to be.

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Sales SaaS Startup Venture Capital 150