socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

When we first started, back in the day, government were very shy about implementing SaaS. We were very stubborn from day one, that this was SaaS, and we did not want to offer an on-premise product, and that it's not even an option. Event now, we're one of the only SaaS solutions that these government agencies have.

Software Review

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2014

SendGrid has had a similar deal with Google and its cloud marketplace since last year. sendgrid cloud software email infrastructure saas service marketplace iaas' Expected financial impact of the deal was not announced--apparently, IBM has another 100 software-as-a-service application available through that marketplace. READ MORE>>.

IBM

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Nimble is backed by such investors as Google Ventures, Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Don Dodge, and Dharmesh Shah. growth saas tools management relationship customer nimble' Nimble is headed by CRM veteran Jon Ferrara, who was the founder of contact tracking pioneer Goldmine. READ MORE>>.

Santa Monica

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2010

Bourgeois is currently head of "Team FREDNET", which is developing a robotic Lunar Lander for the Google Lunar X Prize. Tags: anametrix venture capital angel investor business analytics software saas. Robertson is the outspoken founder of MP3.com, com, and also founded Linspire and Gizmo5. READ MORE>>.

SEM

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Nirvanix said it is providing "the resources we can" to assist its customers to return their data, or move their data to such services as IBM SoftLayer, Amazon S3, Google Storage or Microsoft Azure. nirvanix cloud storage shutdown deadpool saas failure' READ MORE>>.

S3

TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Just get your numbers into a Google sheet so you can work with them easily. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Quite often the goal is to get them into a spreadsheet in a form that allows people to easily play with them. Finally, review the numbers with your partners. Please write us at blog@techempower.com !

Metrics

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2015

Irvine-based CrowdStrike , the developer of security software led by George Kurtz, said this morning that it has raised $100M in a Series C financing round, which was led by Google Capital, and also included Rackspace, Accel, and Warburg Pincus.

Google

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

Three years ago Aclima came out of stealth, detailing a collaboration with Google on mapping air quality in its offices and also outdoors, by putting sensors on StreetView cars. So a chunk of the Series A will be going to help pay for more sensor rollouts. And Aclima’s isn’t naming any additional names on that front yet.

Platform

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Case in point is the return of Larry Page to the role as CEO of Google. I don’t think that Google would have become the success story we all know without the leadership of Eric Schmidt through the years he led the company. It seemed that Google was being out innovated by another Silicon Valley technical leader, Mark Zuckerberg.

CTO Hire

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Finally, Google. Google continues to shape our futures. Definitely Software as a Service (SAAS). SAAS is here to stay. I think we're going to see a real shakeup in how people view social media. I also think that it spells out big consequences for the games industry. 7 years, 100 companies. That's huge.

Southern California

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

In particular, the Google AdWord market matured, making it increasingly difficult for lead generation operators to profitably purchase keywords that would motivate qualified users to complete a lead form.

Entrepreneur

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. Google announced Google Wave and people are worried about the impact on your business? I acknowledge it was a mistake. We were hot.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Traditional software vs. SaaS. I’ve been involved with SaaS companies with VCs who don’t understand demand generation, lead qualification, sales coverage ratios, sales forecasting or frankly when deals should be inside sales vs. outside sales. Think of web vs. mobile. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. FourSquare.

Venture Capital

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Built from the ground up using technologies leveraged by Internet giants like Facebook, and the feedback of hundreds of customers over a five-year period, the new CallFire is a cross-datacenter SaaS platform with no single point of failure. CallFire can now increment an existing Google Analytics dashboard automatically.

SaaS

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. Most SaaS providers deliver end-user applications on-demand, as a service. appeared first on TechZulu.

SaaS

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

Can you talk about the application and how this is different or better than similar efforts like Google Gears, etc? But, our software also supports a large number of other web applications--for example, things like Google Maps, Yahoo News, or even content sites. That's how we boost performance while you're online.

SaaS

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I was excited to read it because Robert Cialdini had been a speaker at Google when my wife worked there and she told me that many members of the senior management team at Google had been raving about his work. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB.

Guide

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

This morning’s show took on the topic of “teams” and highlighted research that Julia Rozovsky and Google has conducted called Project Aristotle and profiled in Charles Duhigg’s book Smarter, Faster, Better.

Coach

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2017

Managing Director: Bill Maris (formerly of GV/Google Ventures) Investment interests: Health care investments. 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. Section 32.

Southern California

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Jon Waterman: We envision ourselves today as a marketplace outside Google and Bing. Our core competency, historically, has been in the pay-to-click space, but we've focused completely outside of Google and outside of Bing. Talk about the market, when you say you're outside Google and Bing, explain what that means?

Advertising

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Nimble is venture backed by Google Ventures, Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Don Dodge, and Dharmesh Sharma, among others. 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. READ MORE>>.

Web

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Wrapping Up The era of simplistic keyword searches is rapidly changing over to the advanced capabilities of AI and LLM-driven search techniques - often starting with a parallel implementation of the two - see Google and Bing as prime examples. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

Generative AI

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. It is a household name.

Ideas

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

Neither became Google but I figured I had learned quite a bit about taking a company from cradle to grave. 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. It wasn’t meant to be. When I left I was considering what next to do.

Technical Advisors

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

Type “personal financial management&# into Google. They are an open-source & SaaS provider of eCommerce solutions. Yet type it into Google and the third result (behind the Wikipedia entry and ecommerce.com ) is Magento. If he has a Google Alert on his name (everyone does) then he’ll also get that.

Blogging

Xconomy

MAY 16, 2018

After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io The three-year-old company already provides its content management system on a software-as-a-service basis (SaaS) for such customers as Sony, Acorns.com, and Rocket League, said Widmer, who took over as CEO from Zesty.io

Google

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Today, Google, and cloud computing companies more broadly, are doing to Microsoft what Microsoft did to IBM. This is manifesting as OS and software licensing revenues are shrinking as cloud-hosted SaaS apps are growing. All profits had resided in the hardware and configuration layers.

Cloud Computing

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For example, if you see a TV spot for Toyota, and then Google it, or you see a display ad on CNN and then open up a tab in your browser, talk about it on Facebook, or even walk into the dealership, we're able to quantify, very specifically, what combination of what kinds of media drove that sale and how that activity interacted with each other.

Social Media

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

For starters – we all know the argument that more enterprises are buying SaaS software because it works more easily than on-premise software and that expectations set by our consumer lives to have software as easy and convenient as Amazon, Google or Facebook drives our business lives. So, too, investments.

Marketing

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

What Swoop does, is we build technology for them, SaaS tools, which allow them to run their businesses more effectively. Part of our team is working on partnerships and sales with big companies like Netflix, Google, and others who require group transportation. They book through Swoop, which leads to those operators.

SaaS

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2013

MomentFeed develops software which allows brands to better measure the social media engagement of their users on a local location-by-location basis, applying analytics and management tools to Facebook, Foursquare, and Google to let those brands better manage their locations. Financial details of the wins were not disclosed.

Customer

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The company said its tools are being used such companies as Aflac, Rhino Linings, VCA Animal Hospitals and Sit n' Sleep to manage social marketing on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. READ MORE>>.

Social Media

InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

At Rincon Venture Partners , we have a laser focus on identifying groundbreaking adtech and business productivity SaaS solutions. For instance, Tumri and Teracent (acquired by Google) are both doing interesting things with respect to matching images with display ad copy. and Overture Services.

Content

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

Vice versa is it’s a SaaS platform company where I spent nearly 10 years running companies. I find with naysayers is to acknowledge the issue they’re negative but to not discuss it in depth. “I understand your concern about Google. In our current portfolio 3 or his 4 investments are in the Fin Svcs space.

Venture Capital

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2012

SpotlightTMS said that customers using its software now include such companies as Google, Comcast, MetLife, Nike, Oracle, and NBCUniversal, among many others. READ MORE>>.

Oracle

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Smart phones finally took off leading to enormous wealth creation for Apple employees and investors but also helped propel Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp and others. As I’ve pointed out previously, this is perfectly captured by Joe Floyd here tracking SaaS multiples over time. Reversion to the Mean.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’m going through this situation now with the first investment that I ever made as a VC in Invoca – (Inbound voice call), a SaaS marketing automation company. Unless you’re SnapChat, Instagram or similar this is probably 3-5 years into your existence. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about.

Startup