socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Santa Barbara-based 15desks , a developer of software-as-a-service for educators, said this morning that the firm has launched a new product for course management. Tags: 15desks software saas education school university. The firm said it is privately funded, and first launched in 2007 at the University of Santa Barbara.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Mindflash says its site allows users to create online training courses using PowerPoint, Word, PDF, and videos, add quizzes, and automate tasks like grading and sending out email invites and reminders. Tags: mindflash online training small business saas software employee. READ MORE>>.

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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

MAY 6, 2018

But if there is nothing wrong with you then please don’t let early rejections alter your course. 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. just don’t lead with them!

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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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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. Most SaaS providers deliver end-user applications on-demand, as a service. appeared first on TechZulu.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Cornerstone OnDemand says it has been seeing an upward trend of people taking online learning and development and courses at work over the past year. According to Cornerstone OnDemand, both Cornerstone Learning and Saba Cloud will be integrated in the new Microsoft Viva Learning app.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2016

Of course I cc people on emails. There is one big mistake many people make and especially with VC firms but of course it’s broadly applicable. If it’s video, SaaS or data-oriented businesses it tends to flow my way. If they don’t need the email why not save them the hassle and time and avoid sending it to them!

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

” Of course, it’s more complicated than just checking boxes on a question list. Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” ” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Irvine-based Kajabi , which develops a platform that helps both individuals, as well as small- and mid-sized businesses monetize online courses, training materials, and other content, has receive an investment from private equity investor Spectrum Equity. Financial details of the minority growth investment were not announced.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.” And of course it’s true in personal productivity apps, SMB apps, B2B software and so forth. Success for many is ephemeral. It’s important to understand.

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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. Of course I believe the market has slowed down massively. We of course need to understand markets and market dynamics but many people understand this from an analytical perspective.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2017

Of course there is no right answer but it’s a function of how much capital you have raised, your prospects for raising more capital in the future, your growth rate and your company’s risk tolerance. Sometimes, of course, reducing burn means cutting costs which usually means cutting staff.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In the market we’ve seen the massive uptick of SaaS valuations in the public markets and commensurate attention on private market fundings and valuations. Of course I thank the whole team but hard not to call out Courtney specifically. eCommerce was battered this year.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Mindflash develops software used by such companies as McDonalds and Lufthansa, to create online courses based on existing content, for employee and other training uses. 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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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

In the course of dominating their initial direct response market, a number of enterprise-level advertisers began using Invoca''s unique marketing platform in ways the company had not foreseen. Our name was so disconnected from our SaaS business model that we were in the process of rebranding the company when Citrix approached us.

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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. startup interview cloud iaas saas enterprise storage zadara nahum nelson' Nelson Nahum: What we do, is enterprise storage as a service. Basically, what that means is we create software that runs on servers, which forms a cloud storage service.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

Prior to that, for seven years I was at Citrix in Santa Barbara, at their SaaS division. I've been living in Santa Barbara since 1996, and over the course of my career I've gone back and forth to the Bay Area several times. I did that, and ramped things up in the three years that I was at Support.com.

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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. UC Santa Barbara has avoided this mistake by placing its Program within the Engineering department. All-Star Alumni. Am I biased?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Of course back then it literally was sold in a package and stored on a shelf! If your investor worked inside of a SaaS company for years and disagrees with me then listen to them. In the software industry we’ve always had a term that’s a bit of an anachronism called “shelfware.”

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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. But what about the privacy / confidentiality concern?

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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.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. Of course, since you know those questions, you can just collect up the answers and provide them to your developers. What’s our purchase, licensing, SaaS strategy? Of course, it’s never complete. Gap closed, right? Probably not.

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2011

Mindflash, which is based in Palo Alto, offers a site which helps companies create online training courses. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Over the course of the year our active portfolio companies received awards or recognition on over 35 separate occasions. Our first investment in the new fund was a $12 million investment in Beverly Hills based MediaPlatform. Frost & Sullivan just named MediaPlatform the product leader in enterprise video platforms.

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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. Not Google.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

Their SaaS product saves web developers and designers time, while allowing them to create cutting-edge websites. Of course, the lovely thing is that at the end of the day it is a great marketing gimmick. People have become jaded about April Fool’s online because it’s seen as a marketing gimmick.

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Customer Custom Template Startup 195

socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

It was that combination of great talent, the great companies we can sell to here, and of course, the great lifestyle of living next to the beach, which is a no brainer. Andrew Peterson: We've been really lucky to have a lot of investors who have great experience in working with both SaaS companies, and especially, security.

Web 138

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Steve Reich

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Last week, the WSJ ran a great article (add link) on the value of college humanities courses, and used comments from a successful entrepreneur to make their case. The company builds a SaaS mobile banking platform for community banks. Successful fundraisers tell a complete, engaging story and close the deal.

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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?

Software Review 150

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

Their SaaS product saves web developers and designers time, while allowing them to create cutting-edge websites. Of course, the lovely thing is that at the end of the day it is a great marketing gimmick. People have become jaded about April Fool’s online because it’s seen as a marketing gimmick.

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