InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

Last week, Divshot turned a simple April Fool''s Day joke into a marketing coup, generating nearly 6,000 Tweets and over a thousand Beta customers. The team''s ability to drive significant customer interest without spending a dime on marketing was one of the reasons Jim Andelman and I invested in the company. Share and Enjoy.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Built from the ground up using technologies leveraged by Internet giants like Facebook, and the feedback of hundreds of customers over a five-year period, the new CallFire is a cross-datacenter SaaS platform with no single point of failure. The new interface is easy to use and is accessible from anywhere using almost any device.”.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. That's how we started. What specific problem were you seeing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Data storage, hardware, and networking equipment are provided to the customer on a per-use basis by the IaaS vendor, who holds the equipment and is responsible for running, and maintaining it.

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Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 133

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2016

Car companies spend a significant amount of money on superficial design features, including the timbre of the sound emitted when a car door is shut. Because many consumers value design features over those which impact performance. In the early 2000’s, SaaS was a nascent concept and most companies were reticent to rent software.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

So let’s summarize what we've already found to be different about searching with LLMs: What’s Different About Search with LLMs Search methods powered by LLMs stand out as transformative tools, offering businesses an edge in their information retrieval and customer engagement processes. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Tool Knowledge Base 346

socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2014

We use a SaaS model, and we work with hospitality companies, such as hotels, restaurants, food service, and we help track employee performance in real time. We''ve designed a system where we track your employees in real time. Who is your ideal customer? What does StaffRanker do? The next phase is to go vertical specific.

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Help Hermosa Beach Technical Review Redondo Beach 223

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

is designed specifically for digital agencies and online marketers using its CMS tools. Crownpeak said it will offer web analytics and traffic information on the shortened URLs for the customers, and that the shortened URL service is being made available for no extra licensing fee to its clients. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2013

RampRate Sourcing Advisors is a leading IT sourcing advisor with a proprietary index and close network of partners designed to perform fast, efficient IT services transactions. Our transaction-focused methodology delivers low risk, best-in-class business terms, rates and service levels for our customers. Stack is Python/Django/MongoDB.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

When you start your company the very first question you need to ask yourself is which kind of customers do you want to serve. Many start-ups (and even growth firms) lack this discipline and they therefore serve customers off all sizes. These are really massive customers. We knew how to land huge corporate customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Data storage, hardware, and networking equipment are provided to the customer on a per-use basis by the IaaS vendor, who holds the equipment and is responsible for running, and maintaining it.

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Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 86

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). I didn’t have first-hand experience in document management systems other than as a user and nobody had SaaS experience – the market was too new. I learned the domain lesson myself.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Thaeres is a SaaS-based, dashboard solution for mid-market enterprises. We are looking at commercial business services, those businesses who in turn also have customers who are businesses. They have large customer bases, and do tens-of-millions of dollars of revenue. What''s the model behind how you charge customers for this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Data storage, hardware, and networking equipment are provided to the customer on a per-use basis by the IaaS vendor, who holds the equipment and is responsible for running, and maintaining it.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2018

Access control, as a whole, hasn't evolved over forty years, and we're bringing technology like the mobile cloud and software in the cloud, to create really disruptive innovation to how businesses respond to customers. Cloudification was really important to us, as cloud guys, who had build SaaS in the past. All that work has paid off.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

Venice Beach-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com) has created sofdtware designed for those application developers to help protect those web applications. There are a whole lot of companies outside the realm of Silicon Valley who you need to build and design for as well. In that world, the risk of security holes is huge.

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Web Startup Southern California Software 138

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Data storage, hardware, and networking equipment are provided to the customer on a per-use basis by the IaaS vendor, who holds the equipment and is responsible for running, and maintaining it.

Cloud Computing 61

Cloud Computing Startup Social Media Networking 61

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

If your teaser deck was 8–12 pages it would likely include: team market problem why your solution solves this problem progress to date (funding, team, customers, revenue if significant) TAM (market sizing / why this will be valuable) Your “meeting deck” should just be an expansion of what was in your teaser deck. whether they invest or not.

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Venture Capital Slides Email Startup 261

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Data storage, hardware, and networking equipment are provided to the customer on a per-use basis by the IaaS vendor, who holds the equipment and is responsible for running, and maintaining it.

Cloud Computing 99

Cloud Computing Social Media Entrepreneur Networking 99

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. Customer Care Today. What do you think?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Services entrepreneurs can more easily capitalize on the trend to treat each customer personally, whether entrepreneurs be interior designers working from home, marketing consultants, or offering Angie’s List to find the best local handyman. Here is just a sampling to give you the idea: Software as a service (SaaS).

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Milk & Honey has had shoes designed by Rachael Ray, Ginnifer Goodwin, Malin Akerman, and Kate Mara amongst others and has appeared in People, Redbook, Inked, Lucky, Bridal Guide, InStyle, Marie Claire, and numerous other publications. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates.

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

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."

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2017

With so many APIs, SaaS ecosystems, and cloud platforms to rely on, a digital product that may have taken five years to get off the ground in 2000 can now be brought to life in a matter of months. Anyone could submit an idea, and others in the customer community could participate by upvoting and commenting on the ideas they liked best!

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”. Collaboration – Share your results, data, customer feedback, fans, etc. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What other kinds of capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA will we need? What’s our purchase, licensing, SaaS strategy? Get in front of customers as often as you can.

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CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

You'll see restaurants on our platform pushing out promotions, and without leaving Facebook their customers are placing orders and inviting friends. It's designed just for our system. Every order that comes through the system, all that customer information is tracked through that dashboard. What's the business model here?

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Mobile Startup Platform GRP Partners 197

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

A lot of them looked at what software to get rid of, and what software to keep, and every single one of our customers put us on the keep list. We also started offering up some aspects of our software for free to help our customers thrive in COVID. I never thought it would be as long as it has been. Thanks, and good luck!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. Been there.

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Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. Was she tough enough?

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Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

InfoChachkie

JUNE 30, 2011

" Without unveiling the entire aircraft’s entire design, what should we expect to see as more and more of the plane leaves the hangar? "Helping This is about the lowest barrier to use I have seen online for a SaaS solution – no registration, no trials, just straight usage. "Helping developers build better apps.

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Outsource Development SaaS Tool Summary 229

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

In Chris Dixon’s words, it wasn’t designed for normals. App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. It’s a way to reach your customers.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

Decisive is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that uses real time data to enable advertisers to optimize mobile ad creative and targeting based on user engagement. HYP3R enables businesses and brands to identify influential customers at their locations and engage them in real time, when it matters most. Advertiser Optimization.

Class 40

Class Artificial Inteligence AMA Platform 40

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

That’s why Canecto developed a cutting-edge, AI framework designed to be a web analytics assistant and help provide owners relevant insights around their customer base and learn how visitors interact with their content. Spinbackup is a Google Cloud Partner and provide Cloud-to-Cloud backup and cyber security solutions for SaaS data.

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Startup Mentor Platform Help 79

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

Our customers can sign up, and they can get full access to our API, where they can create campaigns to target public officials. We've made it really, really easy to offer to their customers. I started designing web sites, at a rudimentary level, right out of college, in 1997. He's got a good, solid SaaS background.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar.

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Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We manage user login so businesses can focus on core product and engage customers faster. Fun Fact: LafaLafa is a play on the word ‘Laugh’ from the business tagline ‘Laugh your way to maximum savings’ and is meant to evoke a happy feeling for customers when they find the best deal. SaaS for Cloud application lifecycle management.

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