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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete. Until we weren’t. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst.

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

InfoChachkie

The company quickly pivoted to create a SaaS solution and in less than two years later, it was acquired by Intuit for $30 million. Apeel Sciences - Founded in 2012, after winning $10,000 at UCSB’s New Venture Competition, the company closed $1.25M in funding during 2013.

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Kevin O'Connor, ScOp Venture Capital, On Startup Success and Investments

socalTECH

The companies we're generally looking for are software-as-a-service-based companies, and although we don't just invest in SaaS companies, it's our primary focus. If we took in other people, we'd have to go after more deals, and bigger deals, and there's plenty of competition in that part of the market.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Amplify Mentor Panel in full swing. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Like good mentors Paul, Jeff, Richard, Oded and David as well as Chris and Kris create an atmosphere in which the motivated founders can take advantage of the knowledge base to which they are exposed. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

Tech Zulu Event

They have hired great people, have brought on great mentors, have raised money from top tier investors, and we are excited for a bunch of big announcements in the months ahead,” said Teller. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

socalTECH

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We've heard quite a bit about your mentoring efforts here, can you talk about that?

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Meet the 25 Startups Competing at SXSW Startup Night 2018

Tech.Co

The event is open to tech enthusiasts who want to join an event filled with some of the top leaders, investors and mentors from tech industry to network, find mentors and build their companies. The Mentor Method (Washington, D.C.). Tapping into a niche community is part of Quirktastic Media’s competitive advantage.

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