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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Irvine-based enterprise storage-as-a-service provider Zadara Storage said today that it has expanded its footprint in Europe, and has named Oksana Braune as Sales Director for Central and Eastern Europe. Braune was previously at Panzura, and also served at Oracle and LSI Engenio. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

Los Angeles-based online storage and backup provider IDrive is continuing to enhance its service, saying last week that it has launched a new, database backup service aimed at small and medium sized businesses. Pricing on the new service was not announced. Pricing on the new service was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

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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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , the developer of human resources and talent management software-as-a-service, said today that it has agreed to acquire Auckland, New Zealand-based Sonar Limited (Sonar6).

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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. READ MORE>>. david cremin frontier venture capital 2014 reflections'

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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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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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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

For our pitch today, we have an interview with Taher Scherzay , founder of Thaeres (www.thaeres.com), a Los Angeles area startup developing subscription and recurring payment processing services. Thaeres is a SaaS-based, dashboard solution for mid-market enterprises. Where did the service idea come from? What is Thaeres about?

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MARCH 19, 2013

And of course the most successful technology companies: Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com [duh], Oracle, Microsoft all have loads of sales people. Many young startups are being advised not to have a professional services business and in my opinion this is a big mistake. Professional services = higher rate of successful rollouts.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

The specifics and need for an overall service experience design were driven home to me in a new book, “ Woo, Wow, and Win ,” by Thomas A. Aggregators delight customers by offering a vast array of products or services under the same experience. Well-recognized users of this model include Deloitte, Lockheed Martin, and Oracle.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

How did you come across the market? The government and public sector is a fairly large market. A lot of software startups have shied away from serving public institutions, despite a big market, due to concerns about how slow they adopt things. It does take a long time to penetrate the market.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market.

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Frank Addante

MAY 23, 2012

Andrew and his partner offer services to repair and upgrade yo-yos for tricks with new parts like extra-long string and inner-gear modifications. Andrew's shop now has a new competitor that offers similar yo-yo services for free. Many markets have free alternatives. In the end, the best product wins.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2014

Keep these balanced and aligned between people (customers, employees) and process (quality, service, revenue), and keep the scope realistic (eliminating world hunger is too broad). Narrow the scope more realistically to people with specific age, income, and education demographics, that you can realistically reach with your marketing plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2013

Keep these balanced and aligned between people (customers, employees) and process (quality, service, revenue), and keep the scope realistic (eliminating world hunger is too broad). Narrow the scope more realistically to people with specific age, income, and education demographics, that you can realistically reach with your marketing plan.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

To address that disaster, Ken Button and Randy Bishop�two veterans of the startup industry�created ContractSafe (www.contractsafe.com), a new online service aimed at helping companies to tame that mess and manage and store their contracts in the cloud. What is ContractSafe? It's not what people need. How are you funding this so far?

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. I’m not covering the actual layers of the Internet (under the OSI model) but rather the Cloud Services layer. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders.

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2014

Todd Davis: I''m a veteran of Oracle, and had been CEO of an equipment finance company for the construction industry globally. Matt Brinker, our VP of products, comes from the construction industry, as does Rich Haus, our VP of Sales and Service. What''s the range of markets your software can be used?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Keep these balanced and aligned between people (customers, employees) and process (quality, service), and keep the scope limited. Zero in on a specific market segment. If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you have a big challenge that you can’t afford to meet.

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JUNE 25, 2015

We built a business with $36 million in bookings and real customers who relied upon our service. I asked him about his thought process because Jason has already built a very successful business that has become the clear market leader in Marketing Automation for Phone Calls. – the market moved massively our way.

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JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. Angels & Recycled Capital.

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JULY 1, 2010

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. So I would go to lunch with our senior architect and ask 50 questions about the differences between Postgres , MySQL and Oracle databases. Skipping is insidious.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

However, mobile devices have not only revolutionized the world of the consumer--they've also made inroads into the corporate market, changing how companies provide access to important information and data to their partners and employees. Or, it can come directly out of a database. But, that's exactly what happened.

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Frank Addante

MAY 23, 2012

Andrew and his partner offer services to repair and upgrade yo-yos for tricks with new parts like extra-long string and inner-gear modifications. Andrew’s shop now has a new competitor that offers similar yo-yo services for free. ” Many markets have free alternatives. In the end, the best product wins.

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Oracle Google Competition Marketing 63

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

One of the startup areas where we've been seeing renewed activity in the last few months is in the enterprise software space--specifically, in software-as-a-service applications targeted at corporate customers. I'd used every CRM tool out there--Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft--you name it, I've used it. Lots of people do ask that question.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA. He spent nearly five years at each of Salesforce.com and Oracle and was an Area VP at Salesforce leading sales efforts at some of the largest clients that Salesforce.com has.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Growth will slow, partly due to internal limits and partly because the company is starting to bump up against the limits of the markets it serves.” He talks about making things that people want & going after a big enough market. Tim Barker is the CPO of DataSift (and heading European marketing for Salesforce.com).

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Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur Technical Review 390

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APRIL 10, 2010

And aside from having great market power (the main reason for Twitter to own the client and the customer) advertising is one of the primary reasons that I believe Twitter needs to own the client applications. Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare. This should be as public as possible.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

We're now one of the top five tech markets in the world, along with the Bay Area, New York, the rest of Southern California, companies in India, and places like China, Berlin, and London. One is the traditional buyer, the Microsofts, Oracles, Googles, and Ciscos of the world, with their cash. There are four kinds of buyers in M&A.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

Therese is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and has a wealth of experience in the financial software market. The software that BlackLine builds and markets, helps people with the close process, instead of doing it in Excel. However, we found that it's a hard market to break into. Therese Tucker: Here's the difference.

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MAY 5, 2011

awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Marketing Muscle. No Dave S. =

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Fred Wilson supports Montgomery’s view in this thoughtful post on the return of the tech IPO market. More interestingly Montgomery expect the M&A market to grow to 600 in 2011 and 750 in 2012. 25 years ago you had the likes of IBM and Digital who sold end-to-end solutions including hardware, OS, applications and services.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 23, 2011

Marketers have long known that people are drawn to exclusivity. Unfortunately, many Big Dumb Companies (BDCs) assume they must unfairly skew the market in their favor by precluding you from freely working with anyone you choose. Note: This is part IV of the four part series. Access part I HERE , part II HERE and part III HERE.

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AUGUST 14, 2011

Obviously they wish they would have figured this out a bit more quickly, but as a young team I personally cut them a little bit more slack than I would if it were Oracle, for example. But if you’re going to say something controversial make it about the market you serve. Make the story be about your market. What a shame.&#.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

EnvoyNow is innovating in the on-demand food delivery space, targeting the underserved college market. Parlor is the first app to allow freelance stylists, barbers and makeup artists to set their own prices, manage their schedules and build their clientele by bringing their services directly to your home or any location you choose.

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Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

In the early 1970s, the Seven-Up Company devised an ingenious plan to market its flagship soda. Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000.

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