TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

We talked through what went wrong on the Celsius network and how it’s surprisingly intertwined with the rest of crypto. Our guest, Aaron Levie, built a successful SaaS business in Box, and now he’s on a mission to beef – respectfully – with web3 stans all over Twitter. Since then, the firm, which claimed to have 1.7 the week in web3.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

As the mobile ecosystem has grown the industrialized world is now carrying a mini computer in their pocket that is connected to a cellular network. If you want to understand the power of how they’re built inbound call management into a SaaS category where they’re the market leader watch this one minute video. Not so fast.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2014

At Amazon''s cloud conference, in the two years since we launched, it''s gone from companies mostly in the Internet area and social networking, to companies who are financial institutions, manufacturing companies, the whole spectrum of projects moving to Amazon. We were the first storage company to go to the OpenStack summit.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Founded in Del Mar, CA in 2012, PacketSled has developed cloud-based technology that continuously monitors its customers’ computer networks, and provides automated intrusion detection, response, and forensics capabilities. Two other small funds, Blu Ventures and JHS Ventures joined in the round. The company also has an office in Seattle.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Among them was Stribe , a company TechZulu originally interviewed at the TechCrunch50 conference earlier this year. Stribe offers a plug and play service for instantly creating a social network on any Web site. Scan & Target - a SaaS solution for real-time text mining and analysis of User Generated Content.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

8 ) SocialStay is effectively a B-to-B, SaaS product that requires you to simultaneously speak to several audiences (hotels, travelers, travel sites, etc.). 5) As an investor, I frankly find it tiresome the degree to which entrepreneurs attempt to hype their companies by integrating “social networks and social media” into their pitches.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Siggi is passionate about changing the pipeline for female and minority founders, and co-leads an ever-expanding network of Women in Enterprise. With experience in corporate and technology licensing, Alice frequently acts as outside general counsel for digital health companies, as well as other SaaS providers. Photo: Ezequiel Williams.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x Invoca was raising at the tail end of this market phenomenon at this time doing tens of millions in SaaS recurring revenue and growing at a nice clip. FOMO was NOMO. As in no more.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was attending a major industry conference in Barcelona at the height of the WAP excitement. I was on stage in front of several hundreds of conference attendees. So I attended a Red Herring conference in Laguna Niguel hanging out with Dharmesh Shah , James Citron , Rob Theis and others. Kleiner Perkins launches an iFund.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

But this coming generation is much more likely to be inspired by The Social Network and want to be entrepreneurs. million to launch a SaaS software company and we took $2.5 You have the super impressive Cory Levy who founded the NextGen Conferences (as well as One, Inc.). AWS helped lower the cost of starting a company by 90%.

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MARCH 22, 2010

So I’ve always advised people that if they do launch at a big show, the most important public relations work they do is after the conference. Many other great companies are not. - Use the fact that you were on an anointed list to build credibility when you eventually approach journalists (and VC’s, customers, employees).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

If one vocal person blurts out, “just give us the details, we all know social networking&# don’t assume that person speaks for the entire room. My partner, Brian McLoughlin , attends almost all Financial Services conference, makes a number of investments in the space and has relationships across the sector.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In a world where 90% of communications is non-verbal imagine what is lost on conference calls. For me one of the tell tale signs of a real entrepreneur is that they know how to network well enough to find technical talent to join them. And from all the office chatter come norms and beliefs. What about offshoring?

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