TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For example, let’s consider Mark. That blurb, and the following examples, were all generated from GPT in only a few seconds, at a cost of less than one penny. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Fill it with the right words, and your dream job could be right around the corner.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence TechEmpower Tips 297

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

Cloud computing pioneer RightScale is a prime example of a company which utilized a consultative go-to-market strategy as a means of funding its initial operations. The company artfully repurposed the tools, dashboards and scripts which it delivered to its initial consulting clients and created a SaaS solution. Scaling Right.

Entrepreneur 225

Entrepreneur SaaS Pricing Cloud Computing 225

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Our investments focus heavily on the financial services industry, digital media, mobile applications & infrastructure, SaaS / Cloud and retail innovation. At GRP Partners our focus has always been on having a small number of investments in the industries we know well. And we’re not restricted to territories.

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GRP Partners Technical Review Truecar Invest 285

TechEmpower

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Founder-Developer Gap and A, B, C Players The challenges that business leaders face when assessing development teams are a good example of the Founder-Developer Gap. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas It means that you - or someone you trust - need to dive in to figure out what’s going on.

Development Team Review 260

Development Team Review Develop Development Software Review 260

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

We make money by helping customers reduce complexity in data streams and they pay us SaaS licenses and volumetric processing fees to do so. These are just some quick examples to help you understand the differences. DataSift passes 95% of the data revenue back to Twitter. Ninety five.

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Platform Course Customer Custom 317

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

Let me give you some examples I see of fauxmentum: In the SaaS world I see many business plans where companies have achieved 100-300% year-over-year growth and this is truly impressive. But can sensible management team even do anything about it? Rational investors can’t sit out of the market entirely so what can they do?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

I’m largely talking about whether to use an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and to some extent, how much to rely on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers or write your own application components. For example, IaaS providers will give you raw infrastructure like compute and storage resources.

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SaaS Framework Resource Google 90

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The TMP is an example of lean academia. The company quickly pivoted to create a SaaS solution and in less than two years later, it was acquired by Intuit for $30 million. A great example of this initiative is Salty Girl Seafood, which is the brainchild to two startup-minded women. Organic Academia.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I follow Jason Lemkin closely (he’s a long-time friend) and he speaks frequently and passionately about SaaS businesses having built a successful one himself. If I were an entrepreneur in that space I think I would seek them out as a starting point because their interest seems authentic.

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Venture Capital Startup Course Entrepreneur 373

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

On some level we felt we did because being a SaaS company in 1999 was trailblazing. I personally felt that we would have been better served putting more resource into building out cloud services, for example, to make Salesforce more scalable in terms of our user base. We started out with such big dreams about changing the world.

Startup 389

Startup Customer Custom Resource 389

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2012

The following guest post is from Laurie Barkman, Marketing Lead at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. It’s also infectious.

Entrepreneur 191

Entrepreneur RSS Conference Training 191

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For example, make all outside hardware and services commission calculated at 25% of the contract sales price, and all inside services commissioned at 50% of the billed amount (as a basis of that line item for the percentage to the salesperson.).

Sales 177

Sales SaaS Pricing Course 177

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Xu describes GrubMarket as a “major food provider” in the Bay Area and the rest of California, with (as one example) more than 5 million pounds of frozen meat in its east San Francisco Bay warehouse. Mike’s team has done an incredible job growing the company thoughtfully and sustainably.

Technical Review 343

Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2014

A good example, is six months ago one of our customers called me and said, Nelson, I need two new SANs, each one with 18 drives, because we have a new project. When we started, for example, we went to the OpenStack private cloud summit, and there were only a couple of hundred people. Is there a big cost savings using cloud storage?

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

An example, the first target application we're selling into is Microsoft SharePoint. But, our software also supports a large number of other web applications--for example, things like Google Maps, Yahoo News, or even content sites. William Chow: The applications we are going to market with initially are enterprise applications.

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SaaS Web Google Sites 127

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

” It finances (or part financies) the deployment of its sensors on the vehicles of fleet partners — with Aclima’s business model focused on monetizing the interpretation of the data provided by its SaaS platform. “We’re really excited because it’s taken really years of work. .”

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Platform Google SaaS Los Angeles 225

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2011

The reality is that there are far more accomplished candidates in the Republican primaries who could challenge Mitt Romney – Jon Huntsman , for example. Huntsman was formerly the governor of Utah and the US Ambassador to China. He speaks Mandarin. His father is a billionaire businessman. So my conclusion?

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Startup Press Software Marketing 289

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

If you’re not in the mood for a personal essay as an example of personal brand management you might want to wait for my next post. I was a guy who had built 2 SaaS companies and had sold to and worked for Salesforce.com. I could become the SaaS guy. In my next post I will take on the topic of how to control your brand.

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Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

For example, we're the official mobile app of UCLA, even though behind the scenes is actually Hopscotch. For example, you might be aware of another LA-based company, Appetize, and we brought them into Old Miss, so you can order concessions at your basketball or baseball game, because Appetize is the concession there.

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Mobile Platform El Segundo UCLA 162

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

At the risk of undoubtedly offending some readers, here are a few highly subjective examples of each school of musical creativity. Incremental advances often arise from transformations, whereas disruptive, discontinuous and radical innovations are usually the result of combinations. Copier: Led Zeppelin <Don’t believe me?

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Startup High Tech SaaS .Net 255

InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2014

For instance, in the first line of your email, note: “I was speaking with John Greathouse and he thought it might make sense for us to connect regarding my company’s SaaS solution.” For example, if you call a 212 number from a phone with an 805 area code, a 212 phone number is displayed on the caller ID of the receiving phone.

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Networking Software Review Email Press 241

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. One way to avoid this is to solicit examples, which illustrate critiques, and not allow reviewers to make unsubstantiated, negative statements. No More Bottle Washing. The Process.

Entrepreneur 217

Entrepreneur Startup Slides Examples 217

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

Let me give you an example. 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.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 236

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Can you give a concrete example of how that might work? We can even automate interaction with a search engine, for example, if you might have 5,000 search strings you need to put into a search engine. Gary Bishop: My background, prior to Network Automation, was in the financial technology marketplace.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2013

The new feature helps users of the software figure out if, for example, an investor has viewed due diligence documents, or if another party has downloaded and viewed a new agreement.

Activity 178

Activity Software Review Software Examples 178

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Our goal is to produce a $10 billion+ winner and remain the market leader in this SaaS category of AI in Sales & Marketing. Invoca, for example, had interest in being acquired along the way at $300 million or so. And while it hasn’t been an “overnight success,” we’ll happily follow in ProCore’s footsteps.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 363

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2013

Sometimes it will be a process expert like a CFO or a head of sales operations if you’re selling CEM, for example. Technology / Tech Ops & or / Security – This is especially true if you sell SaaS software to a business unit. The classic definition of an expert is somebody that DOES have influence but does not have authority.

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Sales Organization Startup Resource 321

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

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. All of the big SaaS movement was causing this problem with business processes and data. That's how we started. What specific problem were you seeing?

SaaS 113

SaaS Startup Customer Custom 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

American Express is an example, they were early into this with their Open Forum site, where they are trying to drive engagement, authority, and trust, so they're now starting to look more like a publisher. What does this look like to brands and publishers? Matt Kumin: Lots of brands are buildling website and microsites.

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Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

Example from this morning was a quick discussion on the “Brexit” and wether the UK will exit Europe. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management. Essentially it’s a replacement for reading The Economist every week (which I would do if I could find more time!).

Coach 233

Coach Technical Review Framework Google 233

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

Examples include Twitter, Plurk, and Jaiku. Examples include Second Life and Funsites. Examples include SendOutCards, Google, and Amazon. Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications now allow on-demand collaboration. Examples include Google Docs, Salesforce.com, Slideshare.net, and Box.net. Mobile smart phones.

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Web Entrepreneur Doc Examples 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

For example, Amber Alert GPS will make sure your kids don’t wander outside of safe zones, Site24x7 will let you know if your web site is down, and Social Studio monitors social networks so you know what people are saying about your brand. Peace-of-mind model. This one is an extension of the insurance model into new domains.

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Startup Netflix Customer Custom 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

Examples include Twitter, Plurk, and Jaiku. Examples include Second Life and Funsites. Examples include SendOutCards, Google, and Amazon. Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications now allow on-demand collaboration. Examples include Google Docs, Salesforce.com, Slideshare.net, and Box.net. Mobile smart phones.

Web 88

Web Web 2.0 Doc Examples 88

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

What Swoop does, is we build technology for them, SaaS tools, which allow them to run their businesses more effectively. Where they previously were using separate tools for text messaging, paying fees that were too high for credit card processing, and employing 5 part time people, they can now cover all of that with our SaaS platform.

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SaaS Startup Tool Doc 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Let me give you a non tech & thus non politically charged example. As I’ve pointed out previously, this is perfectly captured by Joe Floyd here tracking SaaS multiples over time. forward revenue for SaaS businesses when in the years before it had been less than 5x. Back to my non-VC example. Mostly, no.

Startup 285

Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 285

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Thaeres is a SaaS-based, dashboard solution for mid-market enterprises. What we''ve done for each of these industries, is we''ve built out individual adapters that meet their unique need--for example, call centers have a very specific way they meter minutes and provide services, as do other industries. How are you funded?

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Startup Oracle Customer Custom 159