Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

We discussed why in Q4 you will see large renegotiations of SaaS contracts and increased churn rates. I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020. * Topics we covered: B2B Companies You haven’t seen the full extent to how the correction is going to affect you. Raise when you can.

Venture Capital 263

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Writing 263

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Without further adieu, I present to you the winners of the 1st annual REACH NeXT conference: Entertainment: Storygami. Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs. Sold it in 2014.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Company officials are attending the side-by-side Black Hat and Defcon cybersecurity conferences in Las Vegas this week, and did not respond to queries Monday from Xconomy. The company raised $3 million in a 2013 seed round.

San Diego 40

San Diego Conference Funding Networking 40

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Among them was Stribe , a company TechZulu originally interviewed at the TechCrunch50 conference earlier this year. Scan & Target - a SaaS solution for real-time text mining and analysis of User Generated Content. Teacheo - an online tutoring platform with a live virtual classroom.

Incubator 40

Incubator Develop Development Social Network 40

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. 8 ) SocialStay is effectively a B-to-B, SaaS product that requires you to simultaneously speak to several audiences (hotels, travelers, travel sites, etc.). It drives revenue & engages guests."

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education. With experience in corporate and technology licensing, Alice frequently acts as outside general counsel for digital health companies, as well as other SaaS providers. Eric Mathews, Founder and CEO of Start Co.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

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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Funding Startup SaaS Venture Capital 150

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.

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

My partner, Brian McLoughlin , attends almost all Financial Services conference, makes a number of investments in the space and has relationships across the sector. Vice versa is it’s a SaaS platform company where I spent nearly 10 years running companies. 30% of our last fund went into deals in this sector.

Venture Capital 318

Venture Capital Startup Sales Writing 318

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. My example is that at my second company we build an exclusively SaaS platform except that we needed to build hooks into some Microsoft Office applications. And from all the office chatter come norms and beliefs.

Technical Advisors 335

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335