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

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

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

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. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.

Startup 361

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

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. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

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. That data can come from an existing business intelligence system, like SAP, Oracle, IBM, or Salesforce.com. Or, it can come directly out of a database.

Mobile 170

Mobile Oracle Startup Content 170

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

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. The idea that your i/o must be a computer log-in screen or even a mobile app is antiquated in a world in which we increasingly like to message either 1–1 or in groups.

Software 105

Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

If you look at the marketing cloud, at companies like Salesforce, Oracle, and Adobe, they are providing the consumer marketing cloud. We then have applications, running on tablets and screens, where you can interact. You'll walk up, tap on a screen, and it would automatically show a men's line that they are showcasing.

Sales 100

Sales Santa Monica Startup Orange County 100