Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Therein lies the advantages of free markets and competition and if we really believed it were that easy to buy off your largest competitor and be a monopolist we’d all be surfing on AOL TimeWarner portals. ChowNow is simply a SaaS enablement product. so, too, are restaurants. Enter ChowNow. What data do I have to make the case?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2011

They have product offerings in competitive markets and end up getting more than their fair share of the press through stunts that both appeal to journalists writing stories and also reinforce their brands. Salesforce for years ran a campaign of “the end of software.” ” What does that even mean? So my conclusion?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? We could talk with customers, meet the entire management team, review financial plans, review customer purchasing cohorts, evaluate the competition, etc. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

The firm, which is funded by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Palomar Ventures, said that the software-as-a-service product is aimed at advertisers and agencies looking to understand and compare the performance of competitive ads across their own market and other industries, and to gain feedback on their ads. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. Believe me they’ll all have Google Alerts out on the competition and will read their announcements with interest. We were hot.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Packaging, pricing & discounts – In the early days of my first company we always had “list prices&# we quoted to customers and of course we were always willing to negotiate based on who the client was, how important the business was to us, who the competition was and how well the deal was negotiated. We called it PUCCKA.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 26, 2022

At the time, the company raised $2 million, and Alexandrov said about the perceived competition, “The level of competition in this market in the U.S. is still manageable, which is why we have the opportunity to become leaders in the sphere of fast delivery of basic products and household goods.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2011

The new app allows sales organizations to create competitions which does either individuals or team sales progress. Los Angeles-based FunnelSource , the sales pipeline and performance management software developer headed by John Hanna, said today that it has rolled out a new application. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I was a guy who had built 2 SaaS companies and had sold to and worked for Salesforce.com. I could become the SaaS guy. Initially I thought it was too long of a name for a blog.When I looked at the competition it as AVC.com and Feld.com. I was a Yank but had lived abroad for 11 years in 6 countries and was now a dual citizen.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

You’ve got to put the competition into perspective. It was the worst year in history to be selling Enterprise Software and worse yet we were selling SaaS software, which was still experimental in buyers’ minds. You’ve got to hear all of the doubters, and the world is FILLED with doubters, and still not give up.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

The Vice President of Business Development reports to the CEO and is responsible for the direction and management of all worldwide sales operations direct and indirect, including market competitiveness, pricing, compensation, and distribution. Business Development Director, Colony Logic - Los Angeles.

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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. Let me give you an example.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. It is the opposite of what SaaS is supposed to be. We said to customers, “We only sell SaaS and we think that’s the right solution for you.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Source: hibobbie.com The company also raised an impressive $70 million in funding in June to acquire the legacy pediatric nutrition brand Nature’s One, bringing its total kitty up to $142 million and helping to secure its competitive advantage in the industry going forward.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

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. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California. Semick: They are.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? What’s our purchase, licensing, SaaS strategy? Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What are the biggest areas of technical risk? How can we address this risk?

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Keeping up with the competition: You’re a market leader in a fast-growing field. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas It’s important to ensure that they’re on a strong footing as significant changes occur. Otherwise, the downstream technical debt created can be overwhelming.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

Vice versa is it’s a SaaS platform company where I spent nearly 10 years running companies. In our current portfolio 3 or his 4 investments are in the Fin Svcs space. But when you present to both of us you still need to keep me in the dialog.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In reality, some risks are good and should be embraced for growth and a competitive edge, while others are bad and should be avoided completely. But if you want growth and sustainability, you need to create smart risks, which means intentionally taking a risk to grow your business or gain competitive advantage. Take the strategic risk.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2019

The startup, founded by Daniel Goldstein and Cody Barbo, originally received funding from the San Diego Tech Coast Angels as part of the group's Quick Pitch competition two years ago. Thec ompany was also part of the Techstars Anywhere startup accelerator. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2011

In reality, some risks are good and should be embraced for growth and a competitive edge, while others are bad and should be avoided completely. But if you want growth and sustainability, you need to create good risks, which means intentionally taking a risk to grow your business or gain competitive advantage. Take the strategic risk.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Lookout – SaaS provider of security and data back-up services for smart phones. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Current rount: $8.14mm in Series A from Redpoint (lead), Foundry Group, with previous investors, First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital (Chris Sacca), Ravi Narasimham. Total Raised: $9.64mm. Founded in 2007.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2010

In reality, some risks are good and should be embraced for growth and a competitive edge, while others are bad and should be avoided completely. But if you want growth and sustainability, you need to embrace strategic risk, which means intentionally taking a risk to grow your business or gain competitive advantage.

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Entrepreneur Pricing SaaS Competition 97

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

What really differentiates us from our competition is the data set we have. Our competition doesn't have that data. We're excited to have his experience, since he's got a savvy SaaS background. He's got a good, solid SaaS background. Versus our competition, our feature set is much more robust and malleable.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

As a result, I'm looking at a lot of software-as-a-service companies, and have run a number of SaaS companies. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town. They've signed a global distribution with Nintento to power Nintendo Wii and DS, and also have distribution deals with major labels.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2019

We invest in life sciences, medical devices, but we're also a generalist investing in SaaS technologies and real estate, as well. What is OCV Partners? Chris Bostick: We're a mid-Wilshire venture firm, with a $260M fund. What are you looking for in a company and entrepreneur?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

. · Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2013

Squabbler’s software as a service (SAAS) platform gives publishers a plug and play technology to drive audience engagement through video and has been garnering a lot of interest from big name publishers like Bravo, the CBC, and Major League Baseball.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The grant scheme is keen to accept applications from a range of female visionary founders, whether your business develops Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions or retails food and beverages. The grant landscape can be incredibly competitive too, leaving little room for error when writing your proposal.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 13, 2015

In many cases, you can stand firm on price by demonstrating that your overall cost is lower than the competition. Cash – If you offer a SaaS product or a similar solution that is paid for over time, require customers requesting a discount to pre-pay a substantial portion of the fees upfront.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It seems to me that we obsess too much with product features, sales pipelines, competitive pressures, fund raising and such. .” It seems strange to me that we don’t take team dynamics more seriously at startups. I often find myself having the opposite reaction.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

There are a lot of other competition shows and reality show, which are much more predatory and cut-throat, and it's nice for our entrepreneurs to not only get a real investment, but get great feedback. What we want to do with our show, since it runs on a Saturday, is to be very family friendly, and focused on the entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2019

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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

They are an open-source & SaaS provider of eCommerce solutions. eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term. Mint.com is the second result. Think Magento. They are the fastest growing player in the world in this space. They achieved all of this before they raised even a penny of venture capital.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2016

It's a pretty diverse set of customers, who are all driven of our SaaS-based, contact engine we have created. It's a highly competitive market. We're not bumping anybody out, and there's no competition sitting in that space today. How did you get involved with the company? That's forcing health plans to step up their game.

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