socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference. One area with headwinds are non-mission critical SaaS niche solutions showing slower growth.

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Capital Southern California SaaS SoCal 124

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

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Socaltech has partnered with Sutton Capital Partners with their Recurring Revenue Conference for several yars. Two lessons learnedand relearned!

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Capital SoCal Southern California SaaS 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. 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.

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Venture Capital Startup Marketing Pricing 466

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

My long-time friend Jason Lemkin is on the verge of launching a spectacular SaaS conference called SaaStr this week. In 2006 when I was a budding entrepreneur building my second startup I ran into a young (ish) enthusiastic founder of an electronic signature company called EchoSign. I had been doing SaaS for 7 years.

SaaS 150

SaaS Venture Capital Conference Technical Review 150

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Therese is one of the keynote speakers at the Recurring Revenue Conference. Therese Tucker: We're a SaaS company, and in fact, that's 95 percent of our revenue. That's key.

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SaaS Conference Customer Custom 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

I recently attended and presented at Dave McClure’s PreMoney conference in San Francisco. 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]. tl;dr version.

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Venture Capital SaaS Writing Funding 309

InfoChachkie

MAY 11, 2010

Crandell is a frequent speaker at cloud computing industry conferences, and he has played a major role in helping establish and promote openness and transparency in the cloud market. Prior to RightScale, he served as CEO at several Internet Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) companies and as executive vice president at eFax.com.

Cloud Computing 149

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara SaaS Study 149

socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Therese is one of the keynote speakers at the Recurring Revenue Conference. Threese Tucker: We're a SaaS company, and in fact, that's 95 percent of our revenue. That's key.

SaaS 100

SaaS Conference Customer Custom 100

InfoChachkie

APRIL 24, 2012

Kim Kovaks, Founder and CEO OptionEase , recently spoke to a class of emerging entrepreneurs at UC Santa Barbara. With over 700 customers, OptionEase has become the leading enterprise class SaaS solution for stock option and equity compensation tracking and compliance. 5000 conference. Yes, you need to be dedicated.

Startup 258

Startup Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Class 258

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses. Venue Sponsor.

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. For entrepreneurs there’s too much money sloshing around. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue? My general advice is to do less.

Software Review 150

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2011

Central Desktop was founded in 2005 to provide an easy-to-use, SaaS collaboration solution to the SMB market. I would fly up to Redmond twice a week and we would all sit around a really large conference table – it was the largest (advertising) project Microsoft had ever done, a $100M advertising campaign.

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Newsletter Conference Marketing Advertising 213

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

I’d like to do a few posts on what life looks like on the way up and perhaps how to keep your head on straight and avoid drinking your own Kool Aid because as I often advise entrepreneurs on irrational exuberance, “ In a strong wind even turkeys can fly.” ROI studies were published. Surely there must be some benefit here??

Marketing 354

Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

Let me give you some examples I see of fauxmentum: In the SaaS world I see many business plans where companies have achieved 100-300% year-over-year growth and this is truly impressive. But can sensible management team even do anything about it? Rational investors can’t sit out of the market entirely so what can they do?

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Customer Custom 150

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2013, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2013 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Thursday Jan. Venue Sponsor.

Startup 110

Startup Activision Santa Monica SaaS 110

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

She has created a successful model to bridge entrepreneurs, investors and the federal government. Today, Joanne works with passionate entrepreneurs who use data assets to disrupt business functions and verticals. Andre is an innovation broker, entrepreneur and advocate for inclusion of minorities and women.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

We ran into an interesting case at the big Rails conference in Vegas, in fact. I've been an entrepreneur for many years. I've done Mindbody Software, in San Luis Obispo, which is a fast-growing SaaS company, and a string of other investments with other SaaS companies. Obie Fernandez gave us a good one.

Outsource Development 100

Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 100

Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

MindBodyOnline is a terrifically succesful SaaS company, based in San Luis Obispo, that provides scheduling and transactional software for Yoga studios, hair salons, and spas. They have periodic conference calls with groups of users. They read product reviews obsessively. More importantly, they act on the input.

Custom 97

Custom Customer Software Review SaaS 97

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

So I’ve always advised people that if they do launch at a big show, the most important public relations work they do is after the conference. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Sales & Marketing Advice Social Media Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Many other great companies are not. -

Tips 307

Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

My partner, Brian McLoughlin , attends almost all Financial Services conference, makes a number of investments in the space and has relationships across the sector. Vice versa is it’s a SaaS platform company where I spent nearly 10 years running companies. 30% of our last fund went into deals in this sector.

Venture Capital 318

Venture Capital Startup Sales Writing 318

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. 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.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

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. I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020. Not anywhere nearly as hard as being an entrepreneur. How Do I Advise People When Raising Money in a Hard Market? Yes, critical.

Venture Capital 263

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Writing 263

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In a world where 90% of communications is non-verbal imagine what is lost on conference calls. For me one of the tell tale signs of a real entrepreneur is that they know how to network well enough to find technical talent to join them. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. What about offshoring?

Technical Advisors 335

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

8 ) SocialStay is effectively a B-to-B, SaaS product that requires you to simultaneously speak to several audiences (hotels, travelers, travel sites, etc.). Do you have any advice for emerging entrepreneurs regarding how they can be frugal without compromising their company’s value prop? They are starting to see the light.

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233