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). Upgrades and troubleshooting can normally be provided over the network, as well. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Zadara offers up private block and file-based, storage area network and network attached storage services to customers. The two said the link will give CloudSigma''s customers direct access to the storage via a link at Equinix''s Ashburn, VA data center campus. Financial details of the link were not announced.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Nimble, which is led by Jon Ferrara, develops software which lets people track their interaction with customers, clients, business contacts, and others across email, social networks, and much more. nimble contact management software personal tracking saas' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference. One area with headwinds are non-mission critical SaaS niche solutions showing slower growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Based on traditional research, getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. Here the key is to convince customers that you have something really rare, and maybe even entice them into a long-term but affordable relationship. Network model. Marty Zwilling

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Los Angeles-based AtlasJobs, a developer of a white-label web and mobile app for talent acquisition, said it has signed up healthcare operator PAM Health as a customer. AtlasJobs said that PAM Health has a network of over 100 specialty hospitals and outpatient clinics across the United States. AtlasJobs is led by Dr. Jo Webber.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

Based on traditional research, getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. Here the key is to convince customers that you have something really rare, and maybe even entice them into a long-term but affordable relationship. Network model. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years. One of our SaaS companies made great strides with a new product.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In 2020, the pandemic radically changed the customer acquisition process for many consumer-facing industries. As well as major innovations like our AI-driven customer sentiment analysis, to help our clients listen and adapt to quickly changing consumer behaviors and expectations. Contact our editors for details.

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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? We could talk with customers, meet the entire management team, review financial plans, review customer purchasing cohorts, evaluate the competition, etc. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. I don’t want to speak to customer service reps!! 61% of mobile searches in which a customer contacted a vendor, a phone call was generated.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Pasadena-based Central Desktop, a provider of on-demand project management and collaboration software, has rolled out new social networking features on its site. Central Desktop said the idea is to "deepen customer-to-customer" engagement within its platform.

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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). Upgrades and troubleshooting can normally be provided over the network, as well. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service.

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Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 86

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2010

New was most recently at Ripple Networks, and also served at Yahoo. Ciocan was also most recently at Ripple Networks, where he was head of its engineering team. The firm said the new funding will go towards expanding its product set and reach, and to serve new customers. RealPractice is headed by Carey Ransom. 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.” We talked through what went wrong on the Celsius network and how it’s surprisingly intertwined with the rest of crypto. pic.twitter.com/AacdhK3cw4.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 26, 2022

We are creating new habits of customers. It will also be able to leverage Circle K’s size and scale, consumer insights, marketing expertise, procurement network and supply chain, while Circle K can tap into Food Rocket’s proprietary software for forecasting stock levels and employee workloads.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2014

We caught up with Nelson Nahum , a longtime storage industry veteran and CEO of the company, to learn where Zadara fits and how it''s helping to move enterprise customers to the cloud. Speaking of the enterprise, where are those enterprise customers in trusting the cloud? Where are customers now in adoption of the cloud?

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

Although this is a core competency that must be honed over time, there is a cadre of SaaS hiring tools that the world’s leading tech companies deploy to their advantage. Enter The Resumator , a SaaS applicant recruitment and tracking solution geared to the SMB marketplace. Job Syndication And Customized Job Boards.

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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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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. We help our customers weave together all the data across all of their data streams,” Lunsford said.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

When Evan Rifkin of.App/Ads launched a new ad network for iPhone (and soon to be other devices) applications I knew he would have a very strong offering out of the box. He’s built two ad network companies – he knows what he’s doing. So the whole customer development cycle is very streamlined.

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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. Semick: They are.

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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). Upgrades and troubleshooting can normally be provided over the network, as well. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

We were also about to build a really solid mentor network in a short period of time, pulling in about 250 CEO's and CTOs, from all backgrounds and locations. I'd say the biggest lesson I learned is that entrepreneurs need to have more contact with their customers and consumers upfront to build a better assessment of needs and priorities.

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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). Upgrades and troubleshooting can normally be provided over the network, as well. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Oftentimes that will be Google, sometimes that will be Apple, sometimes it will be another network. 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. And, information changes a lot, even on those core networks, particularly with COVID.

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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). Upgrades and troubleshooting can normally be provided over the network, as well. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service.

Cloud Computing 99

Cloud Computing Social Media Entrepreneur Networking 99

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2012

Names and details of those customers were not announced, but a number are via a relationship Fliptu has with talent agency ICM Partners. Fliptu's service helps brands manage their social networking activity, providing a central place for fans to access content about their favorite artists, celebrities, and others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

According to many experts , getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. Here the key is to convince customers that you have something really rare, and maybe even entice them into a long-term but affordable relationship. Network model. Front-of-the-line model.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Nimble's web-based software lets users track all of their interaction with a customer or client, including emails, social networking activity, phone calls, and more. Nimble--which is led by CRM software vet Jon Ferrara--said that the new enhancements lets users pull in external data, such as maps, invoices, news, and much more.

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Web Social Network News Google 219

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The funding was led by Amplify Partners, and also included Webb Investment Network, BoldStart Ventures, Founder Collective, TenOneTen, Mucker Capital and others. Replicated says its tools can take any containerized cloud application and deploy it behind a customer's firewall, into a corporate data center or into a private cloud.

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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. ” Instant.

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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. Meanwhile while social networking was white hot 3 years ago it is now persona non grata unless your user numbers are insane. eCommerce was battered this year.

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2015

Zadara develops a hardware product, the Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array, which helps customers shift to cloud storage--either in the public cloud, or locally as a private cloud. Zadara is led by Nelson Nahum, a veteran of the storage area networking market. EbizTech provides system integration and cloud storage services.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

According to many experts , getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. Here the key is to convince customers that you have something really rare, and maybe even entice them into a long-term but affordable relationship. Network model. Front-of-the-line model.

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Startup Customer Custom Netflix 56

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

However, just as Uber pushed its way into recalcitrant East Coast cities because of intense customer demand, the TMP marshaled a critical mass of the University''s resources due to tireless student activism and the resoundingly positive feedback (and donor dollars) from the parents of TMP graduates.

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