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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Calabasas-based Spotlight , the developer of ticket management software-as-a-service, said today that it has appointed Richard Dym as its Chief Marketing Officer. Spotlight said its customers now include Comcast, MetLife, Nike, Oracle, Time Warner Cable Media Sales, NBCUniversal, Stanley Black & Decker, and Principal Financial Group.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

Excited about Oracle Open World? I’ve been invited to attend this year by Dun & Bradstreet to learn about how their data solutions power the Oracle Cloud Platform. We’re expanding the use cases for our information and are thrilled to put a stake in the digital advertising and marketing ground.”

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Hulst was previously Executive Vice President, Global Data and Strategy at The Trade Desk, and prior to that was Group Vice President, Marketing and Strategic Partnerships, Oracle Data Cloud.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Los Angeles-based OpenMethods , a developer of software for the contact center and telephony market, has raised $5M in a funding round, according to the company. The company's software connects the Oracle Service Cloud software, Oracle's CRM suite, with telephony software from Genesys, Cisco, Avaya, and Interactive Intelligence.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Tekion is a startup developing business applications in the automotive retail market. Vijayan previously also served at VMware and Oracle, and sits on the board of Nic Inc. According to HyreCar, it has appointed Jay Vijayan, the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Tesla, and current CEO of Tekion, to its board.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

One that he particularly struggled with was "word-of-mouth marketing,”which he consistently referred to as "mouth-to-mouth marketing." We adopted his phrasing and made it our mission to devise creative, mouth-to-mouth marketing initiatives. I now realize why guerrilla marketing is not for the timid. we sure do.

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JULY 26, 2010

Many of you have read or at least know the primary thesis of “ Crossing the Chasm &# the seminal book on marketing your products to mainstream consumers by Geoffrey Moore. It influenced a generation of tech marketers. We all intuitively know this curve now but we don’t all market effectively to it.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2015

As a first-timer at Oracle OpenWorld , I’ve been quite impressed by the sheer number of people thronging Howard Street, Moscone Center and the local San Francisco area in business-suits and professional attire. Kevin Akeroyd , GM & SVP of Oracle Marketing Cloud and their own Matthew Collins , SVP of Global Marketing.

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APRIL 23, 2018

Queener had served as VP of Field Operations, SVP Operations, SVP Products, EVP/GM of Data Cloud, and EVP/GM of Marketing Cloud at Salesforce, among other titles. He also has served at Siebel Systems (now Oracle).

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APRIL 3, 2014

Vora is the CEO of Acrolinx, and also had served as entrepreneur-in-residence at Foundational Capital, as well as a VP at Oracle and Adobe. Vora also founded Oblix, which was acquired by Oracle, and sits on the boards of Get Satisfaction and NextPrinciples, among other positions.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

businesses in the Japanese market. The new joint subsidiary, Blackline K.K. , is a joint venture between BlackLine and Japan Cloud, a Tokyo firm which provides professional services to help U.S. Financial details of that joint venture were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 -- CommNexus Capital Markets SIG presents: 409A RegulationsandGuidelines. Come listen to a distinguished panel, Jeffrey Kinderman, Director of Oracle Capital Advisors, Ralph J.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Braune was previously at Panzura, and also served at Oracle and LSI Engenio. Zadara provides a combination of storage hardware and cloud services aimed at the enterprise market. Braune reports to Dani Naor, Zadar's Vice President of International Sales. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

One that he particularly struggled with was "word-of-mouth marketing,”which he consistently referred to as "mouth-to-mouth marketing." We adopted his phrasing and made it our mission to devise creative, mouth-to-mouth marketing initiatives. I now realize why guerrilla marketing is not for the timid. we sure do.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

The cloud storage provider said its new IBackup service specifically backsup up MS SQL Server, MS Exchange Server, Oracle Server, and MS SharePoint Server databases for users. Privately held IDrive has been in a big effort to expand its market penetration with small businesses in recent months. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

MindTouch, which was founded by Steve Bjorg and Aaron Fulkerson back in 2005, said the funding will go to increase its integration with software such as Salesforce, SAP, and Oracle, and grow its marketing, business development, sales, and engineering teams.

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JANUARY 6, 2015

Irvine-based Zumasys , a developer of cloud computing products for the business market, said today that it has acquired the jBase database product from Temenos. jBase is a cloud-based, database product which connects applications built on the Pick operating system with SQL Server, Oracle, and the cloud. Temenos is based in Switzerland.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

San Diego-based MeLLmo , the developer of the Roambi mobile business analytics software, said today that it has opened up an office in Shanghai, to support the Greater China market. Roambi said the new office will be headed by Sean Luangrath, who has previously served at Apple, PeopleSoft, and Oracle. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 8, 2011

Givezooks is headed by Carol Schrader, who has previously been VP of Marketing at Agile Software, which is now part of Oracle; she was part of the team that took Agile IPO in 1999. The firm has also added an iFrame widget to support those ticket sales on an organization's own website. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 26, 2015

In the latest, Central Coast IPO move, Santa Barbara-based Invoca , a maker of call marketing automation tools, says it is prepping for an IPO in 2017, and has hired a new CEO with experience running two pubicly traded software companies. Woodward also served at Legent Corporation, Mcafee, and Oracle.

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JANUARY 6, 2012

Pasadena-based Guidance Software , the developer of computer forensics and e-discovery software, said this morning that it has named Daniel Lim as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, and Alex Adrianopoulos as Vice President of Marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. This is one book-end of the cycle.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

MeLLmo said the new round will go towards product innovation and go-to-market strategy. MeLLmo's Roambi app allows users to access business data from their mobile phone, connecting those phones to IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Endeca, Google, and Salesforce data visually. MeLLmo is headed by Santiago Becerra. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 18, 2011

In this interview, Mark discusses how his experiences at Oracle, eHarmony and the Rubicon Project contributed to the creation of his latest venture, SteelHouse Media. 4) Did I read correctly that you were part of the original development team for Oracle Financials? When I joined Oracle, they were essentially ‘the Google’ of their time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2023

Larry Ellison (Oracle) preferred a candidate who had accomplished something genuinely difficult over one with formal qualifications. Twitter and GrubHub are just a couple of examples where CFOs have been asked to absorb COO responsibilities in the last few years, to capitalize on individual strengths. Take chances on unconventional talent.

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AUGUST 13, 2022

get the attention of the market they choose. Having a great idea in the wrong place won’t get you the funding you need, the experienced domain experts you want, or the pilot market results you need for survival. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. It’s very important.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

I''m very interested in seeing how the so-called "marketing cloud" emerges and develops further. There are many silos, and several big players (Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.), My hunch is data aggregation is key.

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MARCH 19, 2022

With the power of the Internet, and the impact of the recent pandemic , the world of business services, such as accounting and marketing, have gone more and more remote. Unless you represent one of the huge brands in the services arena, such as Accenture or Oracle , clients today want to hear why you personally are the right answer for them.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Altadena-based Unified Dispatch , a provider of fleet management and booking systems for the taxi and transportation market, has been acquired by a unit of Veolia Transportation , the owner of SuperShuttle, ExecuCar, and other transportation services. Duggan & Associates, Oracle, and the SEC.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The firm said the new funding will go to expands its go-to-market efforts. IVT serves clients such as Oracle, Rohm & Hass, IBM, and NEC particularly for corporate communications, investor relations, and training webcasts. Monitor and Tudor are prior investors in the firm.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Hulse joins from iPass, and also has served at Frontbridge and Tumbleweed; Harries was most recently at Oracle; McHargue joins from AutoWeb. Rubicon also said it has promoted founder Craig Roah to President, Josh Wexler to Senior Vice President Market Development, and Seizo Welch as SVP Finance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Larry Ellison (Oracle) preferred a candidate who had accomplished something genuinely difficult over one with formal qualifications. Twitter and GrubHub are just a couple of examples where CFOs have been asked to absorb COO responsibilities in the last couple of years, to capitalize on individual strengths.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

He also served at Gateway, and was also a co-founder of Blue Martini Software, in addition to serving at Objectivity, Red Brick Systems, and Oracle. The firm also said that Frederic Renard has joined the firm as VP of Marketing. Arkeia is a provider of backup software for the enterprise market.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market. They were serving a latent market need for mid-sized businesses to use CRM.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Josef Gorowitz , Swagbucks (Torrance, online marketing/rewards). Amanda MacNaughton , PromoJam (Glendale, marketing software). Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others.

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MARCH 8, 2012

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