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LiveOffice Wins Magazine Publisher

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Torrance-based LiveOffice , a provider of email archiving and compliance software-as-a-service, reported Monday that the firm has signed on magazine publisher Source Interlink. Tags: liveoffice email archiving saas compliance enterprise software. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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9 Popular Startup Business Model Variations For Scale

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, subscription pricing has been around for a long time for magazines, cloud-based software, and gaming, but now I’m seeing it used for just about anything, including for more stylish clothes via Taelor Style , gourmet foods via TryTheWorld , and toys for your kids via KiwiCo.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth.

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9 Subscription Model Variations To JumpStart Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, subscription pricing has been around for a long time for magazines, cloud-based software, and gaming, but now I’m seeing it used for just about anything, including for more stylish clothes via Mr.Conection , gourmet foods via TryTheWorld , and toys for your kids via KiwiCo.

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Platinum Equity's Quark Buys Mobile Publishing Firm

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Pressrun is used by publishers to create and publish tablet magazines, newspapers, catalogs, and other publications. Quark, which was acquired by Platinum Equity in August of 2011, said it has acquired Mobile IQ , the maker of the Pressrun cloud based, mobile publishing tool. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Rebranding Should Be Driven By Growth, Not Desperation

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As Wired magazine pointed out in a January 2013 article , "It’s a Hail Mary pass for a company that held 44.5 Our name was so disconnected from our SaaS business model that we were in the process of rebranding the company when Citrix approached us. percent of the domestic market in 2006 but watched that slip to 8.4

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

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In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. The company quickly pivoted to create a SaaS solution and in less than two years later, it was acquired by Intuit for $30 million.