InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we emphasized usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. In the summer of 1999, Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix) released a free service called BuddyHelp.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2016

When Expercity (creator of GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix) was competing with Webex in the early days of screen sharing, Webex did something brilliant. In the early 2000’s, SaaS was a nascent concept and most companies were reticent to rent software. Users, on the other hand, immediately saw the benefits of SaaS.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2012

Here's a new product that the board over at Yahoo might have wished they could have used, before the huge flap over once-CEO Scott Thompson's resume: HireRight , the Irvine provider of employment screening software-as-a-service, said it has launched a new product called HireRight Executive Biography Verification, which will help organizations to vet (..)

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

PICS Auditing , a software-as-a-service developer which provides contractor screening and credentialing software, has raised $35M in a funding round, the firm sai dtoday. The minority funding came from Norwest Venture Partners. PICS said the new funding will go towards expansion into new sectors and geographies.

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Software Review Outsource Development Screening Training 138

TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

This might include business-side materials like your product roadmap, business plans, and competitor analysis, as well as technical materials like requirements documentation, screen comps, and project/process systems like Jira and Confluence. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review TechEmpower 260

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

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. We said to customers, “We only sell SaaS and we think that’s the right solution for you. We have a great screening process. So we took a stand. We are hands on.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Lookout – SaaS provider of security and data back-up services for smart phones. Those companies are already going to be crushed by Skype’s new screen sharing capabilities. Total Raised: $9.64mm. Read more: TechCrunch , ReadWriteWeb , TheNextWeb. Company is run by John Herring and was formerly known as Flexilis. File sharing?

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2019

So we created this marketplace concept, attracted talent, where we screen them, and only provide the best reps. You can find reps from other industries, and recruiters will throw resumes at you, but finding software sales reps with experience, particularly, B-to-B SaaS, is difficult. That's a niche we are targeting.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2015

In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we encouraged usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. During the height of the Dotcom craziness, Expertcity (creator of GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix) released a free service called BuddyHelp.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2013

Their company philosophies mean so much to me I even have a screenshot of their company’s MO as my desktop screen image. It’s this awesome SAAS that allows me to include links and email forms inside YouTube videos. Jason Fried of 37Signals taught me long ago, ‘You don’t sell to companies, you sell to people’.

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Customer Custom Training Services 97

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Scan & Target - a SaaS solution for real-time text mining and analysis of User Generated Content. The company is targeting recruiters with problems screening candidates. The company's main target is e-commerce sites with rich media. Zoomorama was a finalist at the Microsoft BizSpark event at South by Southwest Interactive 2009.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. The company hopes to prepare advertisers for varying screen sizes. This year’s TZ #startupforecast (Jan 28, 2014) was no exception.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. Early 30s: Got really serious about her career and started her company LaunchBit, an adtech platform for SaaS marketers. Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs. Utility: Envoy Now.

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Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

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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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2019

It’s high time we kill the term Software As A Service (SaaS) and call it what it is – software. You’re not a SaaS company, you’re a software company. You’re not a SaaS investor, you’re a software investor. You’re not a SaaS entrepreneur, you’re a software entrepreneur. ASP To SaaS To Software.

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SaaS Software Artificial Inteligence ASP 113

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

dotbomb crash, we abandoned the technical support marketplace and began licensing our screen-sharing technology. Our name was so disconnected from our SaaS business model that we were in the process of rebranding the company when Citrix approached us. However, after the Internet 1.0 Rebranding Considerations.

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Technical Support Marketing Advertising SaaS 250

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. In the same year Salesforce.com launched a SaaS CRM platform to compete with Siebel.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. And which do you think is more likely to be effective on a small telephone-based screen – a tiny banner ad or a phone number that you click-to-call?

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Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. We could update small portions of the screen rather than an entire refresh. Our view then (kind of obvious now) was that software would be consumed the way that consumer Internet sites were back then.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

At Citrix, GoToAssist customers would occasionally ask if they could just pay for our screen-sharing functionality because they didn''t intend to use the product''s other features, such as reporting and session recording. Anecdotally, it seems that SaaS products often behave as Giffen goods.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. If you want to understand the power of how they’re built inbound call management into a SaaS category where they’re the market leader watch this one minute video. Not so fast. I’ll wait.

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