Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Shouldn’t you just hire the most senior guy you can out of Oracle, Salesforce.com, Microsoft, EA or whatever your relevant industry is? SaaS was hot so I was able to land a very impressive guy. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle) as long as they’ve done a start-up after that before coming to you. - Not so fast.

Startup 327

Startup Sales Class CIO 327

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle. FOMO was NOMO.

Funding 150

Funding Startup SaaS Venture Capital 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

We grew 100% in SaaS revenue year-over-year and 650% over the past three years. If that’s your end goal I couldn’t think of a better leader to take us to that conclusion and I think it could be in the next few years because SaaS companies capable of doing 9 figures of recurring revenue are few and far between.

Demand 150

Demand SaaS Startup Sales 150

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

We've invested in a fantastic company called Mobiclip, which provides high throughput video with low battery consumption on mobile devices. As a result, I'm looking at a lot of software-as-a-service companies, and have run a number of SaaS companies. My own background, is I built and sold two software-as-a-service companies.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

As a first-timer at Oracle OpenWorld , I’ve been quite impressed by the sheer number of people thronging Howard Street, Moscone Center and the local San Francisco area in business-suits and professional attire. Kevin Akeroyd , GM & SVP of Oracle Marketing Cloud and their own Matthew Collins , SVP of Global Marketing.

Oracle 40

Oracle Customer Custom Marketing 40

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. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat. Started at Oracle as one of its first employees. Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs. Best of REACH NeXT: Parlor. Records.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

The state-of-the-art today when it comes to the social computing environments that surround us now — in our browsers, mobile devices, and elsewhere — underscore how much more we have left to do to make these new modes of digital conversation and discourse become mature, efficient, safe, and truly useful.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29