Berkonomics

JANUARY 27, 2022

Tech businesses today can do this much more easily than a decade ago, with cheaper development costs, SaaS hosting environments avoiding heavy equipment costs, and development platforms with pre-formed routines available.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 20, 2017

Join local entrepreneurs, SaaS innovators, leading VCs, private equity/angel investors April 26, 2017 at the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com) presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Wednesday, April 26, 2017 -- Recurring Revenue Conference.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management. Paths to SaaS and cloud computing that will work for your enterprise. Scott Kriz.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. Brightwheel is a SaaS childcare management solution that provides technology to preschools.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2021

Companies this year in the program come from as far as Canada, India, and Ukraine.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 25, 2019

Welcome to the 5th annual Recurring Revenue Conference: Scaling SaaS and Subscription Businesses presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Join 700+ entrepreneurs, executives and leading investors to discuss the Subscription Economy. Wednesday, May 1, 2019 -- Recurring Revenue Conference - April 30 to May 1st - Marina Del Rey.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 24, 2019

Welcome to the 5th annual Recurring Revenue Conference: Scaling SaaS and Subscription Businesses presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Join 700+ entrepreneurs, executives and leading investors to discuss the Subscription Economy. Tuesday, April 30, 2019 -- Recurring Revenue Conference - April 30 to May 1st - Marina Del Rey.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way.

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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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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

Many entrepreneurs encounter a similar dilemma. Thus, entrepreneurs must decide when to stop listening to the Sirens’ song of a quick buck and position their company to take advantage of long-term, sustainable business models. However, in the long run, entrepreneurs always benefit from delivering Maximum Utility for a fair price.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As such, I'm also looking forward to helping non-SaaS Founders, which has been my primary focus for the past 15-years. After working in adTech and SaaS for a long time, the prospect of going back to my deep-tech roots (Computer Motion, acquired by Intuitive Surgical) is invigorating.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Zwelling is a serial entrepreneur, who sold his last firm, Echosign, to Adobe, and was also the founder of YLighting. convertro executive marketing analytics attribution saas software' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Join local entrepreneurs, SaaS innovators, leading VCs, private equity/angel investors February 23 at the Recurring Revenue Conference, 8-5pm with cocktail reception after. Presented by Clear Capital Advisors.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

Given TimeHop’s failed experiment, I was especially intrigued when I learned that a team of a dozen remote entrepreneurs hack the typical corporate structure and creates a company that generated nearly $100 million in revenue. Dan Engel, Co-Founder and former CEO of FastSpring, is a highly successful serial entrepreneur. FastSpring.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Are you an entrepreneur, looking for capital here in Southern California? It's turning out to be a great time for entrepreneurs looking for funding in the region, with not only high profile exits of such companies as Snap Inc., but a bunch of new, early stage investors looking to seed or fund the next big tech success story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. His checklists cover everything from building a vision, to consistently delivering results, for entrepreneurs up to mature business executives. I wish it was that easy.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2014

We enjoyed three rewarding exits this year, which is always fun for our entrepreneurs and LPs. More vertical market SaaS solutions show just how big that opportunity is currently and will be in the future. As a serial entrepreneur, John helped drive two IPOs and two multi-hundred million dollar exits.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Pasadena-based 17hats , a startup that develops business management software aimed specifically at solo entrepreneurs (solopreneurs), has raised $4M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Wavemaer Partners, and also included Talmadge O'Neill and Harry Tsao of Mezi Media and Tamim Mourad of PriceGrabber. 17hats is led by Donovan Janus.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Tracy DiNunzio, Founder and CEO of Tradesy , recently shared her insights regarding the best approach for entrepreneurs to address competition. This allowed us to create a suite of SaaS solutions under their radar (GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, GoToAssist, etc.). The only thing you have as an entrepreneur. Competition Is A Lie.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2018

Customer service is critical to customer retention in the SaaS subscription model. Finally, how can entrepreneurs make sure they're creating something their customers will keep coming back for? You start winning entrepreneur-of-the-year awards and investment bankers are staking out your house.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2015

He joined the firm in 2007 after having previously worked with Upfront Ventures for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Prior to Koral, Mark was Founder and CEO of BuildOnline, a European SaaS company that was acquired by SWORD Group. Mark looks to invest in passionate entrepreneurs in early-stage technology businesses.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked , which develops online, software-as-a-service to help entrepreneurs connect with and keep their investors updated, is opening up its public beta today. Tags: management investment investor saas software venture capital entrepreneur interview paypal caplinked jackson eric. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. One of our SaaS companies made great strides with a new product. What was the biggest news for you/your company this year?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built. Until we weren’t.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

All of the big SaaS movement was causing this problem with business processes and data. What's your biggest lesson you've learned as an entrepreneur? We're in the space, and leading the thought process on what needs to be combined, for example, CRM with ITSM tools, to create meaningful results that you can act on at the C-level.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. An entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and bestselling author, she is passionate about communication, diversity and inclusion. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 18, 2011

I am on the Board of a growing, dynamic SaaS business which has recently graduated from the startup stage and entered the early-growth phase. Thus, confident entrepreneurs understand the value of seeing themselves through the lens of seasoned executives whose opinions they value and trust. No More Bottle Washing.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2016

I learned the hard way that during a startup’s early days, entrepreneurs should give slightly greater emphasis on developing buyer features, in order to reduce the friction of the sales cycle. In the early 2000’s, SaaS was a nascent concept and most companies were reticent to rent software. Car Door Slam Features.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

We both agree that the later-stage valuations are being driven up to a point that feels irrationally priced [he uses b-round SaaS valuations as an example and I am willing to be even more broad based]. While this is temporarily a good thing for entrepreneurs it will turn sour when we go through the next inevitable downturn.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

The best entrepreneurs in our industry focus on it year-round as opposed to just once every 18 months. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

I suspect the real challenge is not the semantic web technology , but new attractive business models from smart entrepreneurs. Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications now allow on-demand collaboration. If you are a true entrepreneur, by now your head should be spinning with the possibilities. are appearing.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2011

Messenger: Dan Engel, Co-Founder and CEO, SaaSy, Co-Founder and CEO, FastSpring, former Marketing Manager at Google, VP of Market Development at Picasa Value Prop Twitter Style: SaaSy is: “the 1st all-in-one payment & subscription management service designed for SaaS, Web.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

CEO Randy Apuzzo said Zesty changed from a Web development firm to to SaaS in 2015, with the guidance of successful entrepreneurs like GoFundMe co-founder Andy Ballester, Rocket League video game creator Dave Hagewood, and Facebook early operations engineer Taner Halicioglu. Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2016

I had the honor of moderating a panel of three SaaS CEOs who have collectively raised nearly $40 million of venture capital and are on their way to breakout success: Reed Shaffner of Workpop , Jerry Jao of Retention Science and Ara Mahdessian from ServiceTitan. The Most Important Metric. Such metrics will obviously differ.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Tags: rightsignature venturenet saas prize startup entrepreneur.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. It is the number one reason why entrepreneurs have to pivot on their ideas and why small businesses fail quickly. Definitely Software as a Service (SAAS).

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