socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2019

Technology investing is the best job in the world, but it can be fraught with failure. Once you make enough technology investments, as we have over the last decade, failure at multiple levels will increase and sometimes it feels as if these failures are often sudden, surprising and multiplicative. Two big lessons in 2018.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group has acquired Houston, Texas-based symplr , a provider of healthcare governance, risk, and compliance software. Clearlake acquired symplr from its existing set of private equity investors, Pamlico Capital and The CapStreet Group. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Crypto lending protocol Celsius isn’t fire burning, but it did freeze all customer withdrawals this past weekend , citing concerns about its own liquidity amid “extreme market conditions.” Our guest, Aaron Levie, built a successful SaaS business in Box, and now he’s on a mission to beef – respectfully – with web3 stans all over Twitter.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2016

The company said it had record growth in 2015, and now has over 430 enterprise customers and more than 1 million users. Chrome River is backed by private equity investor Great Hill Partners, which invested $100M in the company in June of 2015. The company did not say what that translates to in terms of revenues.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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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. We both made personal investments in the company.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

That makes it difficult to figure out what it costs to acquire a customer, and what a customer is worth. Dan LeBlanc: I used to run customer analytics for a brand called ProFlowers. Their customers are starting brands, and using their e-commerce platform to really accelerate and grow.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2014

Is there a specific kind of customer who most benefits from your softare? Mark Faggiano: Our typical customers are e-commerce merchants, folks that sell online for a living, or have an e-commerce presence as part of their current business. The customers we are going after are largely ignored when it comes to compliance.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 7, 2013

For instance, some focus on go-to-market strategies, such as SaaS or Cloud-based technologies, while others concentrate on a particular industry. The Numbers - Most Accelerators offer participating startups a modest capital investment in exchange for a 5% to 10% equity interest.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). You are particularly vulnerable if: You have revenue concentration (few customers each providing a large total of percentage of your revenue). So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Nick Hedges: Level Equity led the most recent round, have Sigia Ventures in Menlo Park, and we have DFJ Frontier, those are the main investors, but we do have a variety of other investors. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Considering our revenue is SaaS revenue this achievement is even more remarkable. The timing of the announcement of this investment couldn’t have been timed more perfectly if we tried. And before that you might enjoy this longer analysis on why I invested in DataSift in the first place , which was written 2.5 Asymmetric.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Please don’t also confuse this with whether a VC should invest in a CEO who’s done it before – that’s a given. He’s joining you because your company offers him/her the hope of the big equity package but likely the step forward in his career that he’s been looking for. I’ll explain both below.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Stop Listening to Your Customers. A common assumption among startup entrepreneurs is that listening to potential customers is the best. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Customers, research, startups. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurism, SaaS. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

When an entrepreneur takes on investors who take equity (i.e. The board is where large equity investors get their representation. They therefore often play the role of the “voice of the customer” and bring important relationships. not debt where they have to be paid back) they are actually co-owners in the business you created.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

and OMERS Growth Equity. The investment also brings its total capital raised since its 2008 inception to $386 million. Clio has more than 150,000 customers across 100 countries. Newton said his vertical SaaS company helps legal professionals be more productive, grow their firms and “make legal services more accessible.”

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