Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

And even when calculated correctly often CAC’s are assumed to be constant but of course they’re not. Of course this is an imprecise science which is why you measure both methods. Of course it’s a collaborative effort — I’m just saying to involve bean counters in the discussion!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start. Let me give you an example.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

I’m largely talking about whether to use an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and to some extent, how much to rely on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers or write your own application components. PaaS, on the other hand, will provide a development platform (as a service) to create new applications.

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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? Of course our execution against the strategy has had to change but the strategy has remained constant. discipline & focus. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Of course passion isn’t enough. So of course I want (need) to make money for my investors (LPs). But the two can of course go hand-in-hand. I follow Jason Lemkin closely (he’s a long-time friend) and he speaks frequently and passionately about SaaS businesses having built a successful one himself.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The Investment Group of Santa Barbara is the primary backer of a developer of online training software for corporations, which announced a funding round Thursday. Mindflash , a Silicon Valley-based developer of online software for learning management and developing corporate training, said it raised $3.5M READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ). and Microsoft had become.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Traditional software vs. SaaS. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. The best way – of course – is to reference check. Think of web vs. mobile. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Connections?

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

“What we’ve really been doing over the course of the last few years is solving the really difficult technical challenges in generating this kind of data. Though it has actually been working on the core problem of environmental sensing and intelligence for about a decade at this point, according to co-founder Davida Herzl.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. I've been in product, product development, marketing, and management.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

In today's world of web application development, speed is everything. Developers are now turning out code and releasing it live to the world in near real time--what is called DevOps and Agile development. With the rise of the cloud and Agile, it's really changed how developer are coding their websites.

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Web Startup Southern California Software 138

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2014

The unique capability of that cloud, is of course, to be a cloud storage solution. What''s the biggest complexity you had to handle in developing this service? startup interview cloud iaas saas enterprise storage zadara nahum nelson' Nelson Nahum: What we do, is enterprise storage as a service. READ MORE>>.

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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. Of course there are risks. Semick: They are.

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2011

The Investment Group of Santa Barbara , a venture capital investment group based in Santa Barbara, has invested $4M in funding for a developer of a web-based cloud training software firm, Mindflash , Mindflash said today. Mindflash, which is based in Palo Alto, offers a site which helps companies create online training courses.

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Santa Barbara Training Venture Capital Invest 145

InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Divshot''s solution is an innovative web development tool, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process.

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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. Derived from uneaten plant material, the company has developed an invisible "peel" that significantly improves produce quality and shelf life. All-Star Alumni. Am I biased?

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you look at what you go through, starting high school, and maybe even middle or grade school, you go through your educational life managing courses, relationships with your teachers, and relationships with your parents. It's started with managing courses and grades, on to a whole array of other services. Talk about your background?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

You want to send just enough to get the meeting (and of course a great deck sells better than a long email) and not so long that you don’t leave a chance to wow the person in your actual meeting. You want to develop a “narrative” that holds the readers attention and helps shape the company into context. it’s worth paying attention.”

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Venture Capital Slides Email Startup 261

InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Divshot''s solution is an innovative web development tool, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process.

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Customer Custom Template Startup 153

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

And of course on Twitter I’ve seen the Tweets, ReTweets and superlatives on what a great post it is. So investing $3-5 million in a company and taking a year to 18 months to see how it develops before adding more fuel can often be the right course of action. But 98% of VC exits in our industry are sub $100 million.

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JULY 1, 2015

I don’t meet many rational invests (VCs or LPs) who believe this will last but of course nobody knows whether we have 6 weeks, 6 months or 2 years. Let me give you some examples I see of fauxmentum: In the SaaS world I see many business plans where companies have achieved 100-300% year-over-year growth and this is truly impressive.

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Startup Marketing Customer Custom 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There are so many events to attend that one could become a full time conference attendee and you could easily feel like you’re missing out with each event that happens without you and of course there is Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat to remind you just how fun it was for everybody else. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue?

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed? Accounting?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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JULY 23, 2013

It is simply the most important way to proactively control your career development and how the market perceives you. I, of course, knew nothing about business. 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. It is neither. I was “technical guy.”

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Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

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MARCH 23, 2015

We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.”

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Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Of course, when you’re talking about enabling/emerging technologies, as Brock Pierce puts it, “Market timing is critical to success.”

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Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

We're focusing on what we believe is a collision course between the desires of the mobile workforce--people like you and me who use their iPad, Android, or iPhone to get to our data and stuff and share it with other people--and the desires of business to make sure they can securely provide that information to both employees and people outside.

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EC2 Los Angeles Web Anthem 150

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

We all know that you develop better rapport with someone, cement relationships, and have a lot more commitment to someone when we do that. We continued to enhance our software to make it easier for them to follow the steps to cash in on credits, and of course, by following those steps they were able to predictably close more deals.

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Sales Startup Email Tool 145

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

For instance, if you were trying to establish a partnership with a BDC, the front door would be a direct inquiry to the VP of Business Development. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. _. — You might get lucky and be greeted with open arms.

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Company Companies Email Press 124

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

With little free time to develop new features, a lot of our thinking instead went towards how to best market and monetize the product we already had. Ideally we’d like to work with other B2B SAAS businesses. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. _. —

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MyLife CitySearch Web Technical Review 160

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

With little free time to develop new features, a lot of our thinking instead went towards how to best market and monetize the product we already had. Ideally we’d like to work with other B2B SAAS businesses. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. _.

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MyLife CitySearch Web Technical Review 157

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

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. So we took a stand. How responsive are they to your needs now?

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Sales SaaS Startup Venture Capital 150

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APRIL 12, 2015

But of course customers will have to do some technical work to migrate products and will lose DataSift functionality that Twitter / Gnip does not possess directly. We make money by helping customers reduce complexity in data streams and they pay us SaaS licenses and volumetric processing fees to do so. Ninety five.

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Platform Course Customer Custom 150

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

I love my dad equally, of course. million to launch a SaaS software company and we took $2.5 Heck, you can launch your company if you’re a developer for $50,000. It’s how I learned to build spreadsheets. She encouraged me to get a job when I was 14. The infrastructure alone cost $2.5

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup Blogging 341

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

If you’re a SaaS company and the firm is a “consumer” firm (or vice versa) then don’t waste your time. All of this, of course, is Sales 101. Conversely if you’re raising $20 million in a C round then you probably shouldn’t be targeting an $80 million fund because they aren’t likely a good fit.

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