TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

This week, we saw the interconnectedness of major institutions as crypto lending protocol Celsius stuttered and brought down Ethereum prices with it as investors feared a price collapse brought on by reportedly over-leveraged players like 3 Arrows Capital. As Celsius accelerates the crypto sell-off, who pays the price?

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JULY 27, 2014

We both agree that the later-stage valuations are being driven up to a point that feels irrationally priced [he uses b-round SaaS valuations as an example and I am willing to be even more broad based]. He said that a16z prefers to invest earlier stage in these types of businesses. Each of the two videos is about 10 minutes long.

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APRIL 21, 2020

We discussed why in Q4 you will see large renegotiations of SaaS contracts and increased churn rates. In a bear market executives are paid to: consolidate the number of contracts and renegotiate prices. Valuations may have changed and “price discovery” in private markets is harder to determine. Should you focus on growth?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. ” The most obvious phone call ad unit is what we call a “considered purchase,” which is high price, complex and requires lots of information or lots of choice. Home alarms.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Rowe Price, its existing investors. Permira is now Seismic's second largest shareholder, and according to Seismic the firm also made a "significant secondary investment" in the firm. According to Seismic, the funding will go towards "accelerating innovation", international growth, and M&A activity.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The reason one would accept losses is when they are investments in fueling faster growth. If you acquire 10 customers a month at $100 per customer and this scales to 100 customers at the same price you may make assumptions about 1,000 customers that don’t hold. One big, beginners mistake people make in LTV is to measure revenue.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

As the founder of an accelerator, I'm constantly being approached by ambitious people with big ideas, and generally we invest in 1/100th of what comes to us. This year, we were lucky enough to find 40 great startups to invest in, growing StartEngine immensely. Definitely Software as a Service (SAAS). SAAS is here to stay.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

Even the eccentric King of Pop communicated the price he was willing to pay for Neverland. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. We then turned Citrix’s question around, saying, “You knocked on our door with an intent to buy so you obviously have some idea of the price you are willing to pay.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I saw a few friends politely suggesting that “now was a great stock buying opportunity” meaning that given the stock market is off by 10% it was a great chance to buy and lock in presumably low prices before the market rises again. If the next 30 days stays calm then investment will pick up. So, too, investments.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I call this “arming & aiming&# your sales teams where you need to standardize both the assignment of territories, industries & accounts (aiming) as well as the process of selling, the collateral, the legal agreements & pricing. We moved toward more standardized pricing (e.g. less negotiating & haggling).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

ServiceNow went public in June, pricing at $18.00 The secondary is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities, Barclays, Credit Suisse, UBS Investment Bank, Pacific Crest Securities, and Wells Fargo Securities. per share; the firm is now trading around $30.65 per share on the NYSE as NOW.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California. We both made personal investments in the company.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Combining that with my previous experience, which was in the platform and SaaS market, and sports, was really a home run. Why are these colleges using you, rather than investing in their own custom applications? Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. Laurence Sotsky: That's a great question.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. On the other hand, exits at lower prices are easier with these providers of capital.

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socalTECH

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. What is TrackStreet? We evolved and expanded from there. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

We have a very unique capability in scalability, but at an agreeable price point. It's a much more complex picture, with on-premise processing assets, the cloud, SaaS based processing, and more trading data from FTP, AS2, and other mechanisms. About 30 to 45 percent of our business is international. The automation we provide is unique.

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JULY 1, 2015

We can see in the market the telltale signs of a rapidly expanding market: wage inflation, high staff turn-over, rapidly increasing rents with scarcity of space and booming real estate market with prices and rents for homes unaffordable for many. But can sensible management team even do anything about it?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

In his premier film appearance in the blaxploitation send-up “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka,” Chris Rock inadvertently addresses a key pricing challenge faced by most entrepreneurs. Watch this 93-second clip and see if you can identify the pricing pitfall addressed in this humorous snippet. Price = Value. How Much For A Rib?

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The venture investment, which the San Diego startup announced Tuesday, is one of only a few so-called mega-rounds—$100 million or more—recorded this year in the region. (In Seismic, an enterprise software company with ambitious growth plans, has raised $100 million in a Series E financing and added Microsoft chairman John W.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

If you have not yet discovered Everything Is A Remix , I strongly encourage you to invest the time to check it out. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Everything Is A Remix – Including Your Startup. smaller, faster, cheaper, lighter, etc.)

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

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. Early 30s: Got really serious about her career and started her company LaunchBit, an adtech platform for SaaS marketers. Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs. Sold it in 2014.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Speakers listed: Brock Pierce – Digital currency pioneer investing in Bitcoin, games, and online gambling businesses; Clearstone Global Gaming Fund.

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MAY 24, 2021

 —  @jasonlk How the Long Game Has Benefitted Upfront I was thinking about it this morning in particular and thinking about my own personal investment history. sold to Disney for $670 million and since our first investment was at < $10 million valuation we did quite well. Maker Studios?—?sold

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

After that, I was involved in a lot of angel investing, starting companies, and helping entrepreneurs to get going. You've been making investments locally, but haven't been involved this closely with other firms--why did you decide to get more involved with this company?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. It pains me to see the typical (and predictable) responses on Twitter, “VCs want prices to drop!” ” “Sure, prices are dropping.

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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 Mark dutifully went to partner meetings, back-channel references began, firms started calling existing VCs to “test prices” and we started debating whom our best partner would be.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

And when prices are dropping on a VCs existing companies in market, there is a substantial reduction in FOMO (fear of missing out) for new deals, which means that investors take their time in making investment decisions. If you can get a round done at the price you expect – well done. Why does this matter?

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JULY 6, 2015

You might look at higher quality / higher price solutions like BMW or Mercedes or you try to see if you can find a bargain with the similar features like a Kia. 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. So we took a stand.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

Considering our revenue is SaaS revenue this achievement is even more remarkable. The timing of the announcement of this investment couldn’t have been timed more perfectly if we tried. And before that you might enjoy this longer analysis on why I invested in DataSift in the first place , which was written 2.5 Asymmetric.

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MAY 4, 2015

It wins through better distribution, logistics, inventory management, warehousing, customer support, merchandising, cross-selling and ultimately on price & scale. The stocks are managed as REITs (real estate investment trusts) and their tenants are you skis, bikes and winter clothes. Thus Amazon’s market cap is $200 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Please don’t also confuse this with whether a VC should invest in a CEO who’s done it before – that’s a given. This was a reasonable achievement when you consider that it was 2001-02, one of the worst years to be selling enterprise software and we were selling it SaaS style, which was still evangelical back then.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This can be high risk if your solution doesn’t work, or your price is more painful than the problem. Software as a service (SaaS) has now pretty much replaced the old licensing model, but offering it was a strategic risk for SalesForce.com. Implement a new business model. Partner with a competitor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2011

This can be high risk if your solution doesn’t work, or your price is more painful than the problem. Software as a service (SaaS) has now pretty much replaced the old licensing model, but offering it was a strategic risk for SalesForce.com. Implement a new business model. Partner with a competitor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2010

This can be high risk if your solution doesn’t work, or your price is more painful than the problem. Software as a service (SaaS) has now pretty much replaced the old licensing model, but offering it was a strategic risk for SalesForce.com. Implement a new business model. A dynamic product line, rather than a single product.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

Rowe Price Associates Inc. The investment also brings its total capital raised since its 2008 inception to $386 million. Newton said his vertical SaaS company helps legal professionals be more productive, grow their firms and “make legal services more accessible.” and OMERS Growth Equity.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurism, SaaS. . Name Your Price: Influencing Customer's Purchasing Decisions. Understanding the effect of perceived discounts, multiple product levels, price anchoring, and other. Entrepreneurism / Monetization economics, human behaviour, pricing. .

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