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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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As a result, I'm looking at a lot of software-as-a-service companies, and have run a number of SaaS companies. I think because we're a Hollywood town, people haven't taken it all that seriously. We'll even write a half a million check. My own background, is I built and sold two software-as-a-service companies. That as unhealthy.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. Most big companies initially rejected use of the cloud, just as they rejected SaaS solutions when we launched GoToMyPC in 2001. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.

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Interview with Steve Seigel, Hatched

socalTECH

Anyone can write a check, but not everyone can provide intellectual capital. It might be more difficult for a SaaS platform, or something that's not as tangible, but anything tangible in health and wellness, fashion, and any other kind of consumer group would be a good fit. And, that help is not always capital.

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