Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

He also nails the reason why venture capital is still necessary to grow large businesses quickly in a world where the costs of running startups have fallen dramatically. “Why do founders want to take the VCs’ money? .” After all, growth equals high valuations and loads of venture capital!

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2016

Schuler Living Trust, Oracle Partners, L.P. and Oracle Institutional Partners L.P., Irvine-based dental laser maker BIOLASE , which trades on the NASDAQ as BIOL, said this morning that it has raised a private placement worth $10M. The funding came from Jack W. along with a number of its directors and officers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2015

There are many silos, and several big players (Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.), David Cremin is a founder and Managing Director of DFJ Frontier, a DFJ Network partner fund and early stage venture capital firm focused on west coast media and information services investments. My hunch is data aggregation is key. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2018

Savyint's product work with such third party systems as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, EPIC, and Workday, and are used to manage access to those systems as companies go through re-roganizations, mergers and acquisitions, process changes, and more. According to the company, it will use the new funding round to expand its U.S.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

San Diego-based V-Vehicle Company and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers teamed up with the Governor of Louisiana and the Louisiana Economic Development agency yesterday to announce that it has purchased a defunct automotive plant in Monroe, Louisiana, to manufacture its energy efficient, environmentally friendly automobiles.

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socalTECH

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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. As a VC you want to feel like you have “proprietary sources” of deal flow. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). They are venture bankers not investment bankers. What stage? What price?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2010

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 said the new round will go towards product innovation and go-to-market strategy. MeLLmo is headed by Santiago Becerra. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others. You can register for the event at Digital Family Reunion. event socaltech50 awards entrepreneur entrepreneurship feature dfr2013'

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

This applies to both founders and to VC’s that work with them. So I would go to lunch with our senior architect and ask 50 questions about the differences between Postgres , MySQL and Oracle databases. And Finally, a word about VC … We VCs need to be as conscious of dipping & skipping as management teams are.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

Social Proof in Action … Yesterday I wrote about the benefits of using social proof and authority in raising venture capital. Salesforce.come is brilliant at marketing heroes and I think Marc learned it in turn from Oracle. If you didn’t read that yet it might be worth having a quick skim as a primer.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

ParAccel said the round also included prior investors Menlo Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Bay Partners, Walden International, Tao Venture Capital Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. Financial terms of the new funding was not disclosed. ParAccel's CEO and Chairman is Chuck Berger. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Pitching a VC – As I said in a previous post – the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. VC’s have a crocodile aversion as much as the next guy. We found some success when we tried D, E, F. Have you guys faced similar experiences in selling?&#.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

We are looking at a market which is primarily mid-level, where they are too big for using Quickbooks as their solution, but they''re not big enough to use an Oracle or SAP. We''re looking now to gain more traction and hope by summer is we might consider venture capital, if it makes sense. They''re left in the middle ground.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

And of course the most successful technology companies: Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com [duh], Oracle, Microsoft all have loads of sales people. But the “no sales people” mantra isn’t what I’m here to take on. It’s the second belief system that is even more engrained and even more wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

And after Siebel’s death the Salesforce rallying cry has extended to Oracle and Microsoft. And as I talked about in my “talking to VCs about your competition&# post, the first instinct of a VC is no different. Software, software, software. Them vs. Us.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

The conference is run by Jamie Montgomery , one of the local industry's pioneers in venture capital and investment. 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. That will cause a real boom in M&A.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Mark Douglas, Steelhouse President and CEO, is formerly from Oracle and was the VP of Technology at eHarmony. Get to know them now before they become household names.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

The reason I’m thinking about the topic this morning is that several months ago Jason Spievak , the Founder & CEO of Invoca , the very first company I backed when I became a VC, started talking with me about whether he was the right guy to take the company to the next level.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. billion in recurring run-rate revenue and growing while Siebel is sold to Oracle for a mere $5.8

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

What's your thoughts on the local venture market? We have a regional focus here, and the market is underserved in venture capital, yet it's the second largest metropolis and DMA in the country. Tags: mark suster interview venture capital partners global retail grpvc. Why do I say that?

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle. The disappearance of these legacy costs has spawned a legion of Capital Efficient Startups (CESs), described more fully in Pour And Stir. Per the above data, such exits account for less than 30% of all recent VC-backed exits.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle. The disappearance of these legacy costs has spawned a legion of Capital Efficient Startups (CESs), described more fully in Pour And Stir. Per the above data, such exits account for less than 30% of all recent VC-backed exits.

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Cloud Computing Entrepreneur Invest Funding 140

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. But we have a great city for building technology companies. If you decide to build a company in LA, here’s what you need to know: 1. All of these areas have still have a lot of growth and innovation left.

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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. Venture Capital.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This is important because when you have too many VCs on a board you only bring one kind of thinking to the board. Independents are critical to avoiding “VC group think.” They also get huge value from somebody who has run a large business and dealt with scaling challenges more than any VC on the board ever has.

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Startup Writing Venture Capital Oracle 187

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I need to take some VC meetings. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital.

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. ► July (1) ► June (3) ► May (5) the Rubicon Project The Journey Startup 6.0: Zondigo, Inc.

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Company Companies Startup Venture Capital 40

Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2018

San Francisco-based Anaplan , one of five companies planning to close initial public offerings this week, raised the expected price range for its shares in an SEC filing Wednesday, signaling an IPO that could be richer than it had anticipated. Enterprise planning software company Anaplan, which is privately valued at more than $1.4

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Pricing Software Venture Capital Oracle 46

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

All of TriNet’s services are supported by a team of dedicated human capital consultants and experts, and enabled by best-in-class HR technology from Oracle-PeopleSoft. Idealab also continues to partner with leading venture capital firms and other strategic investors to provide the resources to maximize the potential of these companies.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. ► July (1) ► June (3) ► May (5) the Rubicon Project The Journey Startup 6.0: Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Advertising Email 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

I guess it may be impractical for Twitter to acquire Seesmic given it has raised considerable amounts of venture capital (reportedly $12 million) but the broader point for me is that I always believed Twitter should control the client versions of its product. Think about the creative tension.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

All of TriNet’s services are supported by a team of dedicated human capital consultants and experts, and enabled by best-in-class HR technology from Oracle-PeopleSoft. Idealab also continues to partner with leading venture capital firms and other strategic investors to provide the resources to maximize the potential of these companies.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

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MARCH 30, 2016

So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle. Many VC firms expressed interest, nearly every one took a meeting and several called Mark and the team back for meetings. September started easily enough.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

One of the questions I’m most often asked as a VC is what I’m looking for in an investment. I once had a debate with a prominent VC on a panel. The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Google 338

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Please don’t also confuse this with whether a VC should invest in a CEO who’s done it before – that’s a given. Shouldn’t you just hire the most senior guy you can out of Oracle, Salesforce.com, Microsoft, EA or whatever your relevant industry is? I’m a big believer in only hiring A+ team members.

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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. And of course we welcome Microsoft Ventures. In all my time investing I have never seen such a senior revenue officer join a company at this stage.

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