Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. No – I’m not talking about YOU – everybody is doing it. I know we spoke about it this week. 10 is the new 3.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here are some items to think about: Have you defined the functionality? cto , product , saas Here is what we've learned: Understanding your needs Identifying the skills you truly need is paramount as different firms boast distinct skill sets. Is user interface and graphic design a necessity? Or is your project a clean slate?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.” This is why I loved Brad Feld’s recent post about the “ illusion of product / market fit.” Success for many is ephemeral.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. Commenting?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2014

Think Southern California''s tech industry is all about fashion, Hollywood, and content? enterprise software tigertext invoca chromeriver venture capital feature saas cloud' If you look at the last few weeks of deals here, you might be surprised: it''s almost been entirely enterprise software. Image courtesy Bigstock. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 27, 2022

Or when something happens that makes an investor think this company is about to break out. Tech businesses today can do this much more easily than a decade ago, with cheaper development costs, SaaS hosting environments avoiding heavy equipment costs, and development platforms with pre-formed routines available.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We operate at scale and speed unprecedented in human history.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 So in our earliest stages we’re about 70% seed and 30% pre-seed. dot-com bonanza.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

If having an LLM write the whole blurb seems like too much, we could also fill our empty textbox with a writing prompt: I know writing about yourself can be tough. State Your Career Goals: You're passionate about guiding young minds in mathematics. Think about text boxes that have stymied you in the past.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. So it’s about 20%.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Scott McCorkle has spent most of his professional career thinking about business to business software and how to improve it for a company’s customers. Our founding team includes world-class engineers, designers and architects who have been building billion-dollar SaaS products for two decades,” said McCorkle, in a statement. “We

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

LA gets a big SaaS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M. “When Optiv acquired us, we were already seeing interesting and strong signals in the technolog space about the disruption that was being driven by cloud technologies,” said Poghosyan.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. Nobody cared about our valuations any more. But this is still all about valuations and none of it is any fun anymore. Until we weren’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

We both agree that the later-stage valuations are being driven up to a point that feels irrationally priced [he uses b-round SaaS valuations as an example and I am willing to be even more broad based]. Each of the two videos is about 10 minutes long. Video 1 is here : Late stage valuations are in a mini bubble.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

So let’s summarize what we've already found to be different about searching with LLMs: What’s Different About Search with LLMs Search methods powered by LLMs stand out as transformative tools, offering businesses an edge in their information retrieval and customer engagement processes.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It’s about how they automate the integration of the applications.” The on-prem software market is four times larger than the SaaS market,” Miller said in a statement. . “With Replicated, half of the services are for tooling for the software vendor to manage release and licensing and the other half is for the IT admin.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

We caught up with Damir Davidovic, CEO of NEOGOV, to hear about the rapidly growing (and hiring) company. There are lots of checks and balances, and they're very accountable about how they hire. When we first started, back in the day, government were very shy about implementing SaaS. What is Neogov?

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

An interesting side note: During our Q and As with dev teams, we often end up having conversations around issues that they haven’t even thought about. Getting Buy-in from Leadership Business leaders are often concerned about how their tech teams will react to an external technical review. Will they resent scrutiny from the outside?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

What's Swoop all about? What Swoop does, is we build technology for them, SaaS tools, which allow them to run their businesses more effectively. I've known him for a long time, and in the early days he told me about what he was doing, and we spent a lot of time together on it, so I made the jump. in a seed funding round.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

The company is all about data solutions which combine meaningful application frameworks together. All of the big SaaS movement was causing this problem with business processes and data. That was about 18 months after our first round of funding. That's how we started. What specific problem were you seeing?

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Last week, we talked about layoffs and the Winklevoss rock gods. Things are happening so quickly right now that even seasoned crypto investors seem to be feeling uneasy about this one. Our guest, Aaron Levie, built a successful SaaS business in Box, and now he’s on a mission to beef – respectfully – with web3 stans all over Twitter.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years. First, business is ultimately about peoplethe strengths and flaws of being human.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2018

As part of our sponsor relationship with the conference, we're running a series of interviews with speakers from the conference about their experience in the area of recurring revenues, customer service, and similar topics. What's the biggest lesson you've learned about retaining and keeping your customers using the subscription model?

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

4 key areas SaaS startups must address to scale infrastructure for the enterprise. We’re thinking about things like how are consumers going to be ordering their beer at a Dodgers game in three years? SpotOn is paying $415 million in cash and stock for the Los Angeles-based company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start. Below is the outline Upfront.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Tracy addressed the issue of competition head on, telling the largely student audience, "As I started to think about launching Tradesy, I looked around and there was a lot of competition but. This allowed us to create a suite of SaaS solutions under their radar (GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, GoToAssist, etc.). Share and Enjoy.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2018

As part of our sponsor relationship with the conference, we're running a series of interviews with speakers from the conference about their experience in the area of recurring revenue, customer service, and similar topics. Therese Tucker: We're a SaaS company, and in fact, that's 95 percent of our revenue. That's key.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

When people talk today about buying food, alongside traditional grocery stores and other physical food markets, they increasingly talk about grocery delivery companies, restaurant delivery platforms, meal kit services and more that make or provide food to people by way of apps. ” I don’t doubt that he means it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

In fact, subscription pricing has been around for a long time for magazines, cloud-based software, and gaming, but now I’m seeing it used for just about anything, including for more stylish clothes via Taelor Style , gourmet foods via TryTheWorld , and toys for your kids via KiwiCo. Network model.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2018

As part of our sponsor relationship with the conference, we're running a series of interviews with speakers from the conference about their experience in the area of recurring revenue, customer service, and similar topics. Threese Tucker: We're a SaaS company, and in fact, that's 95 percent of our revenue. That's key.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

We discussed why in Q4 you will see large renegotiations of SaaS contracts and increased churn rates. We talked about what startup CEOs should do in these situations and how to think about these renegotiations. I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy. If you can’t raise — you’re dead. End of story.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

While weve had to overcome limitations, it really does change the game for how we think about scaling infrastructure. Were on a mission to create more fair and respectful work places and that has encompassed a lot more to our SaaS product than we initially thought when we were in ideation stage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. Traditional software vs. SaaS. Most VCs are book smart.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2016

L-to-R: John Greathouse, unknown woman about to slap John, Reed Shaffner, Jerry Jao & Ara Mahdessian. We had a spirited discussion regarding a number of issues related to blowing past $10M in annual recurring SaaS revenue, in front of a sold-out crowd of about 400 entrepreneurs. The Most Important Metric.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

Though it has actually been working on the core problem of environmental sensing and intelligence for about a decade at this point, according to co-founder Davida Herzl. “What we’ve really been doing over the course of the last few years is solving the really difficult technical challenges in generating this kind of data. .

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SoCal CTO

MAY 18, 2010

Steve Blank , May 6, 2010 Great presentations from Xobni and Dropbox on how they have gone about building their business. SaaS Conversion: Which metrics matter? StartupCFO , May 6, 2010 Great look at important metrics for SaaS and the importance of churn rate. Thanks Steve!

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The firm said its product will allow educators, students, parents, administrators as well as others share resources, get information about grades, and other educational information. Tags: 15desks software saas education school university.

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