Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

deliver profitable revenue that while on gross margins of 50% vs. software at 85-95% it is still profits to help you cover fixed costs. You don’t want to run the risk that having a PS business that takes your eye of off the ball of growing a large software business. That is the software business. rollout support.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Los Angeles-based operations and security management software service, Replicated has raised $25 million to ramp up its staffing and scale its sales and marketing efforts. The funding, which was led by Two Sigma Ventures and included existing investors like Plexo Capital, Amplify, and BoldStart values the company at over $100 million.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2020

Pasadena-based QLess , which develops software to help manage lines and appointments, is courting retailers as they look to how to best adapt to the COVID-19 era. The company said its software eliminates the need for physical lineups, enabling mobile or home waiting for retailers. The company is led by CEO Kevin Grauman.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 11, 2021

As the vaccination campaign to counter COVID-19 gets underway (albeit with a rocky start), a number of companies are attempting to support its rollout in a variety of ways. But the app is also providing users with information about COVID-19 care, and, most usefully, prevention and ways to slow the spread. .

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2014

Think Southern California''s tech industry is all about fashion, Hollywood, and content? If you look at the last few weeks of deals here, you might be surprised: it''s almost been entirely enterprise software. for its cloud-based medical offices software. for its cloud-based medical offices software. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Gregg Johnson, CEO of Invoca For the first 5 years or so after I became a VC I didn’t talk much about what I thought a VC should be excellent at since frankly I wasn’t sure. It’s easy to think the role of a VC is to have strong opinions about markets, trends, tech dynamics and so forth. I don’t think this is the job.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. But many decisions were made within my company walls, and surely by competitors, based upon those numbers. Or cost estimation.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. What excites me about this space is that there’s so much low-hanging fruit.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2009

As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. This is a private group of CTOs who are responsible for software development within their companies. or focused on industry or type of company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2023

I know that dates me a good bit, but it also shows that I have been hanging around startups and big companies for a long time. In retrospect, however, Bill Gates did a lot of things right as a startup that I still look for today in aspiring entrepreneurs and their companies: Build a strong team. That’s real viral marketing.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2017

Irvine-based antivirus software developer Cylance reported Thursday that it has signed a distribution agreement with Toshiba , where Toshiba Corporation Industrial ICT Solutions Company Group (Toshiba Industrial ICT Solutions) will sell its artificial intelligence-based antivirus solution. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

And every great company is raising at north of a billion dollars now so I need to in order to compete.” In November of 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures coined the term “ Unicorn Club ” as it relates to billion-dollar startup companies. I’m not talking about raising money at a billion dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Danielle goes through some commentary from Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson and Marc Andreessen about burn rate and then goes on to discuss her own burn rate and others publicly weigh in. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company? I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2020

One of the most powerful tools in tracking what's going on with the worldwide, COVID-19 pandemic, has been the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Map , which it turns out, was developed by a Southern California software company--Redlands-based Esri.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

Los Angeles-based GoGuardian , a developer of educaitonal software, says it is targeting the problem of suicide and self-harm in K-12 schools, with a new product called Beacon. According to GoGuardian, its new tool uses mahcine learning to identify and alert school staff about at-risk students, so they can get assistance they need.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their customers via messaging, has been acquired for about $42 million in cash by Medallia, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? Despite a huge number of companies, we found there are a number which. Despite a huge number of companies, we found there are a number which. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. Demand Media.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I''ve written before about finding Web Development Firms in Los Angeles. What I didn''t discuss was how you should go about selecting the right company. They''ve been in talks with some consulting companies, but don''t quite the know the criteria for evaluating them and things like references(and where to get them).

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. Commenting?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And it’s why he has launched a new company called Path , which pitches access to specialized substance addiction treatment professionals as an employee health benefit, to do something about it. After the assessment, a treatment plan is drawn up and the company will manage that process for the employer, and the physician as well.

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Inverted Software

AUGUST 9, 2021

“I hired a software development company from India. They outbide all the US based companies I contacted and offered developers at a cheap price. At Inverted software we know and have seen this all too often. We don’t just make software work; we make it shine! So what makes good software? Scalability.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2019

The Tech Coast Angels , the largest organized angel investment group both in Southern California as well as across the venture ecosystem, says it backed a total of 53 companies in all of 2018, putting in a total of $10.8M across those companies. million in Tourmaline Labs. million in Tourmaline Labs.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2016

Note: I invest almost exclusively in b-to-b software companies. When investors do interject, demos typically become even more pedantic, as Founders feel compelled to speak expansively about specific features in an attempt address the investor’s concerns. Don’t Demo Me Bro. You can follow John on Twitter: @johngreathouse.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Richard recently published a new book, The Soul Of A Deal , talking about his experience with deal making and interviewing such others as J.J.Abrams, Deepak Chopra, Peter Guber, Reid Hoffman, Penn Jillette and many others on their own experiences. We caught up with Richard to learn more about the book and deal making.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

The law of large numbers, platforms that can make your company blow up unexpectedly and the trendy nature of tech markets can be deceiving. I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

I’ve spoken before about our desire at Upfront Ventures to fund really big ideas that solve hard problems, are science led and if successful will both have a positive effect on people’s lives as well as make great financial returns. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. In short, we’re after venture returns.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2019

San Diego has had plenty of businesses go public in recent years, but most have been life sciences companies. Now software startup Tealium, which has about 215 employees at its San Diego headquarters, announced Wednesday it has added $55 million in a Series F financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year. YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). But think of this.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2022

San Diego-based nonprofit fundraising software developer Classy says that more than $1.1 The company--which helps nonprofits reach out to donors--said about $30.8 The company said it saw $19.9 billion was raised by its nonprofit customers on its platform in 2021. million of that was in recurring donations on its platform.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation? Are you ready?

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2014

So, it was a surprise when a number of smart, insider angels -- including Roy Rubin (founder of Magento, which he sold to eBay), and Dan Rose (VP of Partnerships at Facebook)--put their money behind TaxJar (www.taxjar.com), a San Diego startup developing sales tax compliance software. What''s the story behind the company? READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Medical device maker ResMed has agreed to acquire Minnesota-based MatrixCare, which makes software for long-term care providers, for $750 million. San Diego’s ResMed (NYSE: ticker[[RMD]]) announced its intention to buy the privately held tech company on Monday. ResMed, which brought in net income of $315.6 million on revenues of $2.3

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

Pharmaceutical companies spent $20 billion a year marketing their products to medical offices. However, the whole business of those companies working with medical offices is one sorely in need of technology. How did you start the company? The company was born out of the inefficiency in the system. What is RxVantage?

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 26, 2021

). Have you thought about your company culture with the same process as your product plan, financial plan, business plan or your marketing plan? I’ve talked to very few founders or companies that would answer yes to some or all of those questions. But think about it for a moment. Have you defined a vision for it?

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I created the term “time bankruptcy” almost thirty years ago when the computer software business was young, and I was a software developer building a young company based upon quality first. About that time, the first would call asking for completion, firmly but politely. Why use this term?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you have solid web skills and a few years experience, either with a commercial company or running your own legit projects, there are dozens of companies in L.A. I’ll give you equity in the company.” While the cost of hardware, hosting and networks rapidly falls, software gets easier to build at a much slower rate.

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