socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

I'd used every CRM tool out there--Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft--you name it, I've used it. You can go from the CEO, all the way to the VP, to the director, to the rep, to the opportunity--all in a single screen--to understand exactly what is happening with the health of your pipeline. It's always in your face, and always on screen.

Oracle 145

Oracle Sales Startup Screening 145

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

For those not familiar with Roambi, can you tell us about the product? We realized that what Apple had done, was introduce a completely new way of interacting with computing devices, using touch, a rich, animated UI, and the size of the screen. How do customers use your product? Or, it can come directly out of a database.

Mobile 170

Mobile Oracle Startup Content 170

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We also wanted access to development resources, and we have our product team here, the engineers and designers, all based in Santa Monica. However, our approach is a whole new product category, part of the marketing cloud. We then have applications, running on tablets and screens, where you can interact.

Sales 100

Sales Santa Monica Startup Orange County 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. What stage?

Startup 361

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

(Part I, Team) Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi , who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. 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.

Software 105

Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. What stage?

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

As an entrepreneur people who aren’t going to respond to you and it’s your responsibility to politely and assertively stay on people’s radar screen. You no longer work for Google, Oracle, Salesforce.com or McKinsey where everybody calls you back.

Entrepreneur 338

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Google 338