Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. 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.
Tech Zulu Event
MAY 28, 2013
Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management. Paths to SaaS and cloud computing that will work for your enterprise. Scott Kriz.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 27, 2014
I recently attended and presented at Dave McClure’s PreMoney conference in San Francisco. I wrote my version here and Scott wrote an excellent write-up of his views here. tl;dr version. He said that a16z prefers to invest earlier stage in these types of businesses.
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. There are large sums of money to be invested and if investors can get comfortable with “downside protections” they’ll still write checks. I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 14, 2014
Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. 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.
InfoChachkie
MARCH 16, 2015
Dreamforce is the conference for sales and marketing professionals. Hosted by SAAS giant Salesforce, it is more akin to a circus than a professional event. Why am I writing an article about a trade show that occurred nearly four months ago? Instead, you have to push the envelope of propriety to cut through the noise.
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.). Write it down…. The most immediate and natural extension for us is conferences since our solution fits perfectly for that industry.”. They are starting to see the light.
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