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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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OCTOBER 7, 2009

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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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JUNE 29, 2017

Managing Director: Kelly Perdew Investment interests: Direct to consumer and consumer focused Internet, Saas, video, mobile, mobility, transportation, and in particular founders with a military background. Moonshots Capital. moonshotscapital.com. Fund size: Not disclosed, but $7.2M so far in investments. Watertower Ventures.

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JULY 9, 2019

in Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences from West Virginia University, and told us a bit about the fund, its investments, and his advice to entrepreneurs looking for investment from the company. We invest in life sciences, medical devices, but we're also a generalist investing in SaaS technologies and real estate, as well.

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MAY 16, 2019

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Isaac Garcia , a serial entrepreneur who previously founded and sold his last company, Central Desktop, and now is working on a new startup, Sales Insider. What advice would you give to other entrepreneurs? I started this because I struggled hiring and finding sales reps myself.

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Jackson, CEO and co-founder of CapLinked (www.caplinked.com), which is developing tools to help entrepreneurs and investors connect. Eric is an experienced entrepreneur, and was a very, very early employee at PayPal, where he was recruited by Peter Thiel. Jackson: It's actually two audiences, both the entrepreneur and investor.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Irvine-based Kajabi, which develops online tools that helps entrepreneurs and creators with marketing and selling their products and services, says it has tapped Sean Kim, the former Head of Product at TikTok as its new President and Chief Product Officer.

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Therese Tucker: We're a SaaS company, and in fact, that's 95 percent of our revenue. Therese Tucker: Actually, I love the idea of SaaS, because with on-premise software, in the old days, you saw a lot of shelfware. The beautiful things about SaaS, is you're able to provide value to your customer on an ongoing basis. That's key.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

I also have some experience in SaaS, video, and those kinds of companies. What qualities in those military veterans do you think make a good entrepreneur? There's also the absolute persistence, the level of integrity, the perseverance, and those critical elements for being a successful entrepreneur.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

We take a really friendly, Shark Tank approach that promotes young entrepreneurs, and lets them pitch to a group of seasoned investors and venture capitalists on a panel, and where they not only get an actual investment, but also go through a retail challenge, to get consumer feedback. How did you get involved with angel investing, initially?

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JANUARY 22, 2019

This morning's interview is with Kevin O'Connor , a longtime investor and serial entrepreneur, who is now running venture capital investment firm ScOp Venture Capital. The companies we're generally looking for are software-as-a-service-based companies, and although we don't just invest in SaaS companies, it's our primary focus.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Threese Tucker: We're a SaaS company, and in fact, that's 95 percent of our revenue. Therese Tucker: Actually, I love the idea of SaaS, because with on-premise software, in the old days, you saw a lot of shelfware. The beautiful things about SaaS, is yuo're able to provide value to your customer on an ongoing basis. That's key.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. Here's Jim Andelman of Bonfire Ventures. Happy Holidays!

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

That platform allows small businesses to use our processes and platform to extract all of that data out of the different SaaS platforms they are using, combine it, and provide some really useful analytics to answer questions and make faster, and better decisions.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

It's the same way that both investors and entrepreneurs used to think about New York with financial technology or advertising, because of the relationship to Madison Avenue and Wall Street. We have companies here from enterprise SaaS to Internet of Things, to the on-demand economy, to virtual and augmented reality, and health care.

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JUNE 2, 2017

We also looked at people who had great mobile portfolios, media and content, and Saas, which included Karlin Ventures and Rincon in Los Angeles. Eric Futoran: The biggest lesson, which I teach to other entrepreneurs, is don't assume anything. I don't see a lot of entrepreneurs doing that, especially for fundraising.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

That product right now is on 2,000 publisher websites, it's sold under the SaaS model, and a lot of people on the free, ad-supported version. We're able to do that by the traffic we tap into. What does that mean specifically? A little history, we launched our product years ago, Search IQ.

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JULY 25, 2017

The company, which is led by Southern California serial entrepreneur Cleve Adams, has previously raised funding from Flyover Capital, Tifec and Ward Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Jay Ackerman: I have a tech background, and have worked at a number of software and SaaS companies, primarily in go-to-market. Right now, outside entities do it on their behalf with their proprietary technology, and we're trying to give them tools to do it on their own, in a highly efficient manner. What's your background?

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JULY 27, 2009

But, you can imagine, there are a lot of enterprise collaboration applications like Salesforce.com, which are hosted by a SaaS vendor, and all your content is behind a login--we can easily support those with almost no cost to the SaaS vendor themselves, with full capability of the application. more) READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Combining that with my previous experience, which was in the platform and SaaS market, and sports, was really a home run. What's the biggest lesson you've learned here so far as an entrepreneur? Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. That provides much better reporting to sponsors.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Thaeres is a SaaS-based, dashboard solution for mid-market enterprises. entrepreneur pitch startup processing payment billing subscription thaeres scherzay taher' For organizations that have subscription or recurring revenue, Thaeres is a billing system that fully automates the operations and administration of payment services.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

He comes from a SaaS background, and enterprise software. What's the biggest lesson you've learned so far as an entrepreneur? Mike Whitmire: The very first meeting I had with them, I was introduced to one of the partners. I had lunch with him, telling him about my background and the market opportunity that existed here.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. Andrew Schydlowsky: I'm a serial entrepreneur. What is TrackStreet?

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MAY 22, 2019

What's the biggest lesson you've learned as a startup entrepreneur, now that you've been at it for a few years? However, we're meeting that now, hired a marketing agency, and started some new campaigns, and we're learned from that experience where our customers are and where to reach them.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with two of Southern California's most successful serial entrepreneurs, Alex Kazerani and James Segil , now of Los Angeles-based OpenPath. However, we are both entrepreneurs, and needed to build and do something positive. We then started Edgecast in 2006.

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MAY 18, 2009

I've been an entrepreneur for many years. I've done Mindbody Software, in San Luis Obispo, which is a fast-growing SaaS company, and a string of other investments with other SaaS companies. Tags: interview daryl bernstein rightsignature electronic signature startup entrepreneur. I was itching to get my hands on them.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

CapLinked operates an online service which helps entrepreneurs and startups organize due diligence documents, find investors, share and communicate with their investors, and more. CapLinked was founded by Eric Jackson and Christopher Grey, and is backed by a long list of Silicon Valley angel investors.

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