Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2013, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. The post TZ Presents 2013 Startup Forecast appeared first on TechZulu. 24 7pm at The ROC in Santa Monica.

Startup 110

Startup Activision Santa Monica SaaS 110

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2016

More recently in 2015, Kiel helped launch Machine Shop Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in early-to-growth stage companies with a global scope. The post TechZulu Presents | 2016 LA Investor Startup Forecast appeared first on TechZulu. Machine Shop Ventures was featured in WIRED Magazine for its groundbreaking new model.

Startup 40

Startup Santa Monica Venture Capital SaaS 40

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. I believe that if you listen to your customers, they'll tell you everything that you need to know in order to help them grow. How does customer service tie into all of this? READ MORE>>.

Custom 166

Custom Customer Conference Social Media 166

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

The short answer is that you should have multiple versions of your “pitch deck” (a short, visual presentation in Keynote, PPT or similar and shared as a PDF) and each occasion has a specific goal. You want to develop a “narrative” that holds the readers attention and helps shape the company into context. I recommend sub 10MB.

Venture Capital 261

Venture Capital Slides Email Startup 261

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This presented MomentFeed with an immense opportunity to help multi-location consumer brands meet the challenges brought on by an overnight shift in consumer shopping patterns. p> This year it's been all hands on deck at MomentFeed to help multi-location, brick-and-mortar brands adapt quickly to meet challenges.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Software Review Organic Search Startup 140

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

This is hardly ideal and some simple changes could help management avoid both issues. If I’m in your shoes I’d think about what is most critical to help your business succeed. should we charge SaaS revenue, ad revenue or volumetric billing revenue? ” Both of the functions are a waste of time.

Writing 337

Writing Venture Capital Help SaaS 337

SoCal CTO

MAY 18, 2010

- Steve Blank , May 6, 2010 Great presentations from Xobni and Dropbox on how they have gone about building their business. SaaS Conversion: Which metrics matter? StartupCFO , May 6, 2010 Great look at important metrics for SaaS and the importance of churn rate. Thanks Steve!

Startup 150

Startup SaaS Metrics Patents 150

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. 24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica.

Tech Coast Angels 105

Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2016

Over the year’s I’ve tried to offer some tangible, practical advice to help people communicate more effectively. Phone Calls 2 —  How to Make Better Calls Presenting at Meetings —  Without Going Down a Rat Hole Presentations —  Where Should You Sit ?? If it’s video, SaaS or data-oriented businesses it tends to flow my way.

Email 150

Email Course SaaS Tips 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

According to ServiceTitan, the integration allows garage door sales and service technicians to easily configure and present quotes and track and process Clopay doors. ServiceTitan said the move is aimed at helping improve efficiency and drive sales for garage door dealers and contractors served by Clopay.

Sales 100

Sales Los Angeles Pricing Tool 100

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. That's super helpful. Therese Tucker: We're a SaaS company, and in fact, that's 95 percent of our revenue. That's key. Explain your place in the world of recurring revenue?

SaaS 100

SaaS Conference Custom Customer 100

socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. That's super helpful. Threese Tucker: We're a SaaS company, and in fact, that's 95 percent of our revenue. That's key. Explain your place in the world of recurring revenue?

SaaS 100

SaaS Conference Custom Customer 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x Invoca was raising at the tail end of this market phenomenon at this time doing tens of millions in SaaS recurring revenue and growing at a nice clip. FOMO was NOMO. As in no more.

Funding 150

Funding Startup SaaS Venture Capital 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

As an entrepreneur, there is so much competition for so few dollars, so having a finance background and also having done something entrepreneurial really helps me provide balance to the show. That's different from a normal pitch meeting, where there are just two, three, or four people in the room, and you can walk through a presentation.

Startup 100

Startup Entrepreneur Invest Competition 100

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 7, 2013

For instance, some focus on go-to-market strategies, such as SaaS or Cloud-based technologies, while others concentrate on a particular industry. End Game - Some Accelerators spend significant time helping startups hone their pitch for a blow-out Demo Day. However, avoid any Accelerator that charges startups a fee to participate.

Incubator 238

Incubator Startup News Entrepreneur 238

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. It is the opposite of what SaaS is supposed to be.

Sales 150

Sales SaaS Startup Venture Capital 150

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2012

The following guest post is from Eric Gaydos, Buzz Marketing Manager 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.

Social Media 154

Social Media RSS SaaS Email 154

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. I got a taste of that within my first weeks on the job.

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Without further adieu, I present to you the winners of the 1st annual REACH NeXT conference: Entertainment: Storygami. Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. Sensay is the most helpful person you’ve never met.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

I presented a revised plan that I had created in 24 hours with the help of my team. I flew 12 hours, got off the plane, showered at my hotel and then went into their offices to present. I jumped on a plane and immediately flew to New York for just 1 day to meet with the Chief Investment Officer of ETF. But we did $2.1

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Startup GRP Partners Venture Capital 298

InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2011

Part I of this series describes the 360-review that I conducted at a growing, dynamic SaaS business which has recently graduated from the startup stage and entered the early-growth phase. In order to help the Founders in this process, I asked them to identify the Dirty Dozen tasks to which they consistently allotted most of their time.

Technical Review 182

Technical Review Software Review Startup Outsource 182

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. Core Team – Review the key findings with the senior team and make them part of the solution, especially with respect to helping the Founders delegate non-critical duties. No More Bottle Washing.

Entrepreneur 217

Entrepreneur Startup Slides Examples 217

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

” Keynote presentations on Cloud, SaaS, Mobile, Big Data, CRM, HCM and more continue to herald “disruptive innovation to empower enterprise collaboration.” As tech conferences go, I have certain friends that might refer to such an event as “ Salaryman Con.” ” Is it really that disruptive though?

Oracle 40

Oracle Custom Customer Marketing 40

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

And while that cliché has been said about everything in the Lone Star state for years, it rings particularly true for the hottest startups showcasing their big innovations at SXSW Startup Night 2018 presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo. InSpirAVE is helping people “save for what matters,” and reduce impulsive spending.

Startup 79

Startup Mentor Platform Help 79

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2015

If you have a product, knowing who the “typical buyer” by department or title is helps you greatly because you can quickly get to somebody likely to be familiar with the space in which you’re selling. If you know the title you can use tools like SalesLoft to build lists of potential leads.

Sales 150

Sales Startup Venture Capital Funding 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There are too many deals to look at, too many seed funds or angels asking you to look at deals and weekly “demo days” with manicured and monocultural presentations crafted by experienced story tellers to help even the mundane idea sound like it will. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue? You own how much?”

Software Review 150

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Today the Traveling Geeks saw presentations from 11 interesting startups at French incubator, the Paris Development Agency. Scan & Target - a SaaS solution for real-time text mining and analysis of User Generated Content. Stribe offers a plug and play service for instantly creating a social network on any Web site.

Incubator 40

Incubator Develop Development Social Network 40

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2. Towards the end of 2006 I realized that EC2 was transformative and that people needed help understanding it as well as tools to work it. It helps to think positive and focus on the awesome things that are indeed possible.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Rather they should get a part-time Acting CTO who can help close the gap. Bottom line – if as you recognize this gap, then reach out to get a slice of a CTO who can help bridge the gap. What’s our purchase, licensing, SaaS strategy? I disagree with that and certainly see lots of shapes and sizes of these kinds of engagements.

Fractional CTO 225

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach 225

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Fortunately, for those headed to SXSW, Startup Night SXSW 2018 , presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo, will be filled with investors from a multitude of industries who are looking to discover and fund startups building the latest solutions and tech innovations. Lisha Bell, Deal Flow Lead for Pipeline Angels.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

It's really helpful, particularly for companies who don't get social media. We're excited to have his experience, since he's got a savvy SaaS background. He's got a good, solid SaaS background. People want to control the presentation and relaly fine tune their campaigns, so we build that into our API.

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

Thus, we became one of the first ASP (aka SaaS) companies, by selling subscriptions of our screen sharing technology to customer service departments – the same market segment which had adopted BuddyHelp. Advertising – Companies such as, eFax and YouSendIt generate significant revenue by presenting relevant ads to their respective free users.

Custom 162

Custom Customer Technical Support Startup 162

SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

analytics to help companies track and optimize their marketing effort. Gravity--headed by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur--developer software which presents, in real time, personalized web pages. The firm's software helps advertisers target people looking for specific brands and details of a products. Jason Lehmbeck, the.

Southern California 66

Southern California Software Artificial Inteligence Company 66

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Thousands of people submit their panels for SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive) and only a handful will be selected to present. SXSWi is five days of presentations and panel discussions from some of the biggest thought leaders in Interactive digital media space. This session will be presented in ENGLISH. Joel Bush, Amplifier.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

There are presently many new efforts under way to refine and improve the world of social media, some of which we’ll explore here and many which are just beginning. Four aspects of social Web evolution So what kind of emerging standards and technologies are we seeing that can help address these issues?

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29