Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The truth is I have been thinking a lot about the topic, I just haven’t been writing about it. million to launch a SaaS software company and we took $2.5 I plan to write about this phenomenon soon. I would love to see Tara follow up with blog posts on: why she believes this is the case & what we can do about it.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas If you know of more resources on this topic, or want to talk about anything startup or tech related, we’d love to hear from you.

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Metrics Startup Slides Technical Review 260

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management. Paths to SaaS and cloud computing that will work for your enterprise. Scott Kriz.

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SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I follow Jason Lemkin closely (he’s a long-time friend) and he speaks frequently and passionately about SaaS businesses having built a successful one himself. I write this because I know how difficult it can be to find a potential investor and to decide with whom you’d like to try to work. Startup Advice'

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Venture Capital Startup Course Entrepreneur 373

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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CTO Hire Develop Development Fractional VPE 260

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

There’s one attribute (coming soon) that I need to have in order to write a check but I don’t believe is vital for success. My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). It will be controversial – I know. I know this stuff cold now.

Entrepreneur 267

Entrepreneur Startup SaaS San Diego 267

Startup San Diego

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Day three of San Diego Startup Week took place at The LOT in Liberty Station, and we held the Sip N’ SaaS networking event Powered Logicboost Labs. This night focused mainly on celebrating the B2B SaaS community.

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San Diego SaaS Startup Writing 52

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. Vice versa is it’s a SaaS platform company where I spent nearly 10 years running companies. tip: write it down when asked / parked). Congratulations.

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Venture Capital Startup Sales Writing 318

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Motivated by the overarching mission to mitigate climate change events like wildfires, the Incline Village NV based startup has been drumming up a lot of attention throughout 2023 due to it's data-centric approach and it's software as a service (SaaS) payment model – which is unique for the ecological sector.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2011

They have product offerings in competitive markets and end up getting more than their fair share of the press through stunts that both appeal to journalists writing stories and also reinforce their brands. Salesforce for years ran a campaign of “the end of software.” ” What does that even mean?

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Startup Press Software Marketing 289

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

I’m largely talking about whether to use an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and to some extent, how much to rely on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers or write your own application components. Most SaaS providers deliver end-user applications on-demand, as a service.

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SaaS Framework Resource Google 90

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. I was a guy who had built 2 SaaS companies and had sold to and worked for Salesforce.com. I could become the SaaS guy. In my next post I will take on the topic of how to control your brand.

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

Let’s say you have built a SaaS company where a large part of the early revenue comes from a few big customers or a large part of the revenue is services based vs. software based. How to get your Series A mojo back The rest of the outline I’ll write as a series to come back to this blog if you want to read more. …

Funding 236

Funding Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 236

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California. Semick: They are.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I was a SaaS company and he had been on the Executive Board and the Strategy Council for Larry Ellison at Oracle and he taught me some key lessons about sales and he served as a useful buffer between my investors and me. I really like it when independent directors write a check into the company. But if they could even write $2,500?—?money

Startup 187

Startup Writing Venture Capital Oracle 187

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2017

Each investor would need to write $1–1.5 If a group of 3 VCs have each written $6 million into a company ($18 million total) and the company is showing strong prospects and good growth but isn’t an obvious “home run” success and external funding becomes hard then the question of internal financings may come up. million for 18 months.

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Startup Venture Capital .Net Capital 212

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Our goal is to produce a $10 billion+ winner and remain the market leader in this SaaS category of AI in Sales & Marketing. He writes “Half of all venture funds outperform the stock market which is the benchmark most institutions measure VC funds against.”

Venture Capital 363

Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 363

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

We have a number of curation and publishing tolls that let our users write metacontent and annotations on the content, and to create fresh content feeds they can place on their website, in a newsletter, on mobile, or on social. It's all about what is happening on the realtime web. How did you figure out people needed and wanted this?

Web 237

Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

For SharePoint, we'll provide additional features--like the ability to upload and modify documents while offline, and synchronize with a SharePoint site, with both read and write community in the Pro version. Tags: entrepreneur access offline service software saas mobophiles startup interview chow william. more) READ MORE>>.

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SaaS Web Google Sites 127

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

The mistake entrepreneurs make is either writing a lengthy email (everybody has too much email so it will get skimmed / not digested) or not having a deck which means the VC can’t quickly determine his or her fit as a potential investor. The key is WHAT you send.

Venture Capital 261

Venture Capital Slides Email Startup 261

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The traditional way to handle that is to write code. It's a much more complex picture, with on-premise processing assets, the cloud, SaaS based processing, and more trading data from FTP, AS2, and other mechanisms. However, as you can se eour our website, our motto is no code, no limits.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Those were the early days of SaaS and you might remember that even Salesforce.com has major outage problems. The process in and of itself was pretty lengthy and at some point I’d like to write about it in more detail. So we thought we were just managing our economic risks.

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Sales Pricing Startup Customer 296

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2015

I write about sales often both because it’s the lifeblood of any organization and because in my experience it is the area in which more startups are least experienced or inclined. I also write and talk about it frequently because raising capital is a part of sales and this is important for entrepreneurs to understand.

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Sales Startup Venture Capital Funding 150

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

As a result, I'm looking at a lot of software-as-a-service companies, and have run a number of SaaS companies. We'll even write a half a million check. You've got lots of experience in the SaaS market with Salesforce.com, what's your opinion on where that market is today--and how do SoCal's Software startups stack up?

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2016

Write said it selected San Diego over several other cities, including Austin, Raleigh, and Phoenix, citing the city's "rich talent pool" and startup environment. Wrike said the new jobs in the location will be in sales and customer service.

San Diego 100

San Diego Writing Software Sales 100

Tech.Co

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The grant scheme is keen to accept applications from a range of female visionary founders, whether your business develops Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions or retails food and beverages. The grant landscape can be incredibly competitive too, leaving little room for error when writing your proposal.

Technical Review 167

Technical Review Technical Advisors Design News 167

Steve Reich

JUNE 6, 2012

The stories are everywhere…VCs and Angel groups are passe’–the cool kids are raising money from “Super Angels” Just go talk to a friendly millionaire, and he/she will simply write a check to finance your “A” round. The ones that can (and will) write a seven-figure check are rare.

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Angel Writing SaaS Startup 55

socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

Andrew Peterson: We've been really lucky to have a lot of investors who have great experience in working with both SaaS companies, and especially, security. Not to plug myself, but I've done some writing and published a book with O'Reilly, talking about security misconceptions. Let's talk about your funding.

Web 138

Web Startup Software Southern California 138

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2015

Hosted by SAAS giant Salesforce, it is more akin to a circus than a professional event. Why am I writing an article about a trade show that occurred nearly four months ago? Even at a show the size of Dreamforce, you can cut through the noise, but you have to push the envelope to do it. . Good question. I am a trade show skeptic.

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Conference SaaS Ideas Sales 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you've taken a course, and need an application to do chemistry or math analysis, there's a store where you can write, share, sell, or buy those applications. It allows students to have better communications, and cuts down the cost of IT to any school They don't need to staff anyone, because we're SaaS based.

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

Never mind that Twitter in writing specifically asked us to build this re-syndication product with them and that every step of the way encouraged us to build out the service. We make money by helping customers reduce complexity in data streams and they pay us SaaS licenses and volumetric processing fees to do so. Ninety five.

Platform 150

Platform Course Customer Custom 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. As I’ve pointed out previously, this is perfectly captured by Joe Floyd here tracking SaaS multiples over time.

Startup 150

Startup Companies Company Venture Capital 150

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. Most big companies initially rejected use of the cloud, just as they rejected SaaS solutions when we launched GoToMyPC in 2001. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. Although the first draft of this post began when Kluge was a proud member of NextSpace; as of this writing we have moved to a bigger office to accommodate our expanding team. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

Web Design 103

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Anyone can write a check, but not everyone can provide intellectual capital. It might be more difficult for a SaaS platform, or something that's not as tangible, but anything tangible in health and wellness, fashion, and any other kind of consumer group would be a good fit. And, that help is not always capital.

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