InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

Their deep understanding of their customers, an uncompromising drive to create a quality product and the courage to ignore the music industry's formulaic approach to producing hits resulted in the creation one of the top selling non-compilation albums of all time. This audience feedback allowed the band to iteratively modify their creation.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

Although this is a core competency that must be honed over time, there is a cadre of SaaS hiring tools that the world’s leading tech companies deploy to their advantage. Enter The Resumator , a SaaS applicant recruitment and tracking solution geared to the SMB marketplace. According to Jennifer Van Grove of Mashable, “The Resumator.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2019

The companies we're generally looking for are software-as-a-service-based companies, and although we don't just invest in SaaS companies, it's our primary focus. We're looking for companies that have already brought a product to market, with $500,000 to a million dollars in revenues in ARR. It's always hard with venture capital.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 13, 2015

This deal reinforced to me the importance of identifying, and communicating the full differentiated value to customers, rather than reflexively focusing on just price. This strategy obviously is most effective when distribution of your product entails low variable costs. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

.” It finances (or part financies) the deployment of its sensors on the vehicles of fleet partners — with Aclima’s business model focused on monetizing the interpretation of the data provided by its SaaS platform. So a chunk of the Series A will be going to help pay for more sensor rollouts.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

They often identify expeditious ways to make money in the early days of their adVentures, which allow them to reduce the amount of capital they must raise from outside investors. The company artfully repurposed the tools, dashboards and scripts which it delivered to its initial consulting clients and created a SaaS solution.

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TechEmpower

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If you're grappling with this issue, identifying the specific cause can be difficult, especially if you don’t have a software background. In this post, we’ll show you how to identify common signs that a dev team isn't performing as expected, even if you’re not that technical. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2011

Part I of this series describes the 360-review that I conducted at a growing, dynamic SaaS business which has recently graduated from the startup stage and entered the early-growth phase. The challenge was to identify which tasks to retain and which were best suited for delegation. A = Product Strategy. C = Product Coding.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

Thus, we became one of the first ASP (aka SaaS) companies, by selling subscriptions of our screen sharing technology to customer service departments – the same market segment which had adopted BuddyHelp. The first step was to identify who was using the service. However, in 1999, the free-to-paid rules were still largely unwritten.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson has created a collection of short films which beautifully underscore Mr. Jobs’ definition of creativity (the term beautiful is appropriate here, as the production values are sweet). Kirby goes on to identify the basic elements of creativity as: Copy, Transform and Combine. Nobody starts out original.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

At Rincon Venture Partners , we have a laser focus on identifying groundbreaking adtech and business productivity SaaS solutions. I know these particular companies well, as I am an investor in some of them and an ardent fan of the rest.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The path I went down after a few years was to hire more process driven people and devolved more daily operational ownership to people running individual functions such as product management, sales management, finance, etc. Those were the early days of SaaS and you might remember that even Salesforce.com has major outage problems.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2012

Steve identifies the following skills as necessary for success as a venture capitalist: People skills (ability to recognize patterns of success in individuals and teams). Throw them out and make them be product managers or something in a startup to get a feel of a company. If you have not yet read it, take a moment to do so now.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

Their approach to pathogen detection is a combination of “deep metagenomics sequencing and proprietary bioinformatics analysis that can identify 35,000+ microorganisms in one test.” Their first product LexiconMD helped healthcare professionals dictate their notes into e-medical records hands- and eyes- free. Project Ray (Hartford, CT).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Even when your new product or solution fills a real customer need, and has a positive value proposition, many new venture founders are surprised and frustrated to find that excited customers are hard to find and growth is slow. Product is “disruptive technology” or a “paradigm shift.” They know you exist, but any change is painful.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Your startup Bro may give you insights into the inner workings of the BDC (including the political pecking order), identify the effective champions, and help you avoid ineffectual blowhards. This maximizes the chance you will identify the correct email address, without making it overly obvious that you are guessing.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

We were able to identify that there were small subsets of agents who were doing 12 times more deals than anyone else. When they saw an email, they could just click here and be done, rather than having to go through the effort of logging into the system. We said, huh, are there any patterns these top agents were doing that others weren't?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. Do your customers understand the need for your product, and has that been an issue? We spoke with Wes Nichols , the firm's co-founder and CEO. Wes Nichols: MarketShare is an analytics company.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Also at Startup Night will be 25 diverse and innovative startups showcasing their latest products, competing for prizes including: $1K from LaunchKC , Business Extra Points from American Airlines , and a fast tracked spot to the Startup of the Year semifinals competition at Innovate Celebrate 2018. Marissa Lowman, Investor at Village Capital.

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

We've identified ten of the more technically interesting companies working on software in Southern California, using our unscientific, unproven, and undoubtedly biased informal polling. businesses and points of interests; products; and much more, plus an extensive set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

In this post I advocate taking a harder stand on where your product or solution differentiates in the market – even if it means you lose some deals as a result. I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. It is the opposite of what SaaS is supposed to be.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2015

If you have a product, knowing who the “typical buyer” by department or title is helps you greatly because you can quickly get to somebody likely to be familiar with the space in which you’re selling. The other big mistake people make in qualifying is not determining whether the buyer has a budget to afford their product.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. . Building Products While Serving Clients: Why and How. Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. Showscase your products and services.

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