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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Calabasas-based Spotlight , the developer of ticket management software-as-a-service, said today that it has appointed Richard Dym as its Chief Marketing Officer. Spotlight said its customers now include Comcast, MetLife, Nike, Oracle, Time Warner Cable Media Sales, NBCUniversal, Stanley Black & Decker, and Principal Financial Group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

With the power of the Internet, and the impact of the recent pandemic , the world of business services, such as accounting and marketing, have gone more and more remote. Yet the value of real relationships, as with consumer customers, has become critical to your business services growth and success.

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MARCH 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , the developer of human resources and talent management software-as-a-service, said today that it has agreed to acquire Auckland, New Zealand-based Sonar Limited (Sonar6). Sonar6 develops cloud-based, talent management software focused on small businesses.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Santa Monica-based software-as-a-service developer Cornerstone OnDemand said this morning that it has added former Eloqua CEO Joe Payne to its board of directors. Cornerstone OnDemand is a developer of software-as-a-service tools for enterprise, human resources and human capital management. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

Spotlight , the venture backed provider of software-as-a-service for managing sports and entertainment tickets, said this week that it has moved from Woodland Hills to Calabasas, in expectation of growth in its staffing. The firm--which recently raised $2.5M The firm did not say how many employees it is looking to hire. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 22, 2018

an Oracle Cloud service provider based in El Segundo. Accenture announced Oct. 22 it acquired Daz Systems Inc.,

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The company's software connects the Oracle Service Cloud software, Oracle's CRM suite, with telephony software from Genesys, Cisco, Avaya, and Interactive Intelligence. The funding came from Kayne NewRoad Ventures Fund II, which is jointly run by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors and NewRoad Capital Partners. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Lewis was most recently founder of Fablistic, a social recommendations service. He also has served as a SVP and GM of Local.com, Vayusphere, Vitria Technology, and Oracle Corporation. Local.com said that it has named Malcolm Lewis as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the new unit.

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JUNE 13, 2012

Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud services firm Media Temple has tapped two technology vets as President and COO, and Chief Technology Officer, the company announced this morning. The firm said it has named Russell P. Reeder as its President and COO, and Albert Lopez as CTO. Redder reports to CEO Demian Sellfors. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Hulst was previously Executive Vice President, Global Data and Strategy at The Trade Desk, and prior to that was Group Vice President, Marketing and Strategic Partnerships, Oracle Data Cloud. According to The Trade Desk, Hulst will be responsible for global operations, data, commercial enablement, and client services in her new role.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Vijayan previously also served at VMware and Oracle, and sits on the board of Nic Inc. HyreCar operates an automotive marketplace, which helps connect vehicle fleet owners with drivers for ride sharing services such as Uber and Lyft. Tekion is a startup developing business applications in the automotive retail market. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

is a joint venture between BlackLine and Japan Cloud, a Tokyo firm which provides professional services to help U.S. According to BlackLine, it has created a subsidiary in Tokyo, where it will help companies in Japan with their automation of their accounting and financial operations. The new joint subsidiary, Blackline K.K. , READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Irvine-based enterprise storage-as-a-service provider Zadara Storage said today that it has expanded its footprint in Europe, and has named Oksana Braune as Sales Director for Central and Eastern Europe. Braune was previously at Panzura, and also served at Oracle and LSI Engenio. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 20, 2018

and international field operations, to build out its ecosystem of technology and system integration partners, for its product roadmap, and customer service. According to the company, it will use the new funding round to expand its U.S.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Spotlight's software is used by corporate customers, such as Nike, Oracle, NBCUniversal, and others. Spotlight said that Penske uses approximately 4,000 ticket assets annually to build relationships with customers and prospects, via major and minor league sports events in the Philadelphia area. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Altadena-based Unified Dispatch , a provider of fleet management and booking systems for the taxi and transportation market, has been acquired by a unit of Veolia Transportation , the owner of SuperShuttle, ExecuCar, and other transportation services. Duggan & Associates, Oracle, and the SEC.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

According to the firm, its software-as-a-service product pulls data from applications such as Salesforce, QuickBooks, Microsoft Excel, Oracle, and SAP for business intelligence reporting. Amount of the funding was not disclosed, but came from Private Equity Management Group. READ MORE>>

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

So I would go to lunch with our senior architect and ask 50 questions about the differences between Postgres , MySQL and Oracle databases. At my first company we went with Oracle because it had better handling of “ clustering &# at the time where we could have multiple instances of databases that we could keep synchronized.

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JUNE 12, 2018

According to BlackLine, Woodhams previously had been Vice President of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) at NetSuite, and also had worked at Oracle, Hyperion, CapGemini and Citicorp. The company said Woodhams has more than 35 years of experience in the cloud financial and professional services area.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#.

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DECEMBER 3, 2012

No one was really focusing their products and services for those customers in a good way. How difficult has it been to have public institutions accept software-as-a-service, and where is that now in general? They all wanted to deploy the service at their location. We saw that opportunity, and executed.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

For our pitch today, we have an interview with Taher Scherzay , founder of Thaeres (www.thaeres.com), a Los Angeles area startup developing subscription and recurring payment processing services. Effectively, when an organization uses our product, the can scale any subscription service with ease. Where did the service idea come from?

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AUGUST 24, 2009

One of the startup areas where we've been seeing renewed activity in the last few months is in the enterprise software space--specifically, in software-as-a-service applications targeted at corporate customers. I'd used every CRM tool out there--Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft--you name it, I've used it. Lots of people do ask that question.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

And I’ve talked openly about why many services businesses should not feel product envy and chase the commensurate growth rates. ” And many more examples of employees launching careers including several employees at Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce.com and elsewhere. ” I don’t love that culture.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

There are many silos, and several big players (Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.), David Cremin is a founder and Managing Director of DFJ Frontier, a DFJ Network partner fund and early stage venture capital firm focused on west coast media and information services investments. My hunch is data aggregation is key. READ MORE>>.

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Frank Addante

MAY 23, 2012

Andrew and his partner offer services to repair and upgrade yo-yos for tricks with new parts like extra-long string and inner-gear modifications. Andrew's shop now has a new competitor that offers similar yo-yo services for free. Focus on building a truly great product and offer it to your customers with great service to back it up.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

25 years ago you had the likes of IBM and Digital who sold end-to-end solutions including hardware, OS, applications and services. When you look at the likes of Cisco, HP and Oracle (note they bought Sun) it seems a return to this model. As a result the bigger buyers will look to fill gaps in their vertically integrated offerings.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

Obviously they wish they would have figured this out a bit more quickly, but as a young team I personally cut them a little bit more slack than I would if it were Oracle, for example. Whatever your political view we can all agree that John Kerry is a terrible communicator. He’s verbose, often off message and wooden.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

That data can come from an existing business intelligence system, like SAP, Oracle, IBM, or Salesforce.com. We also have a software-as-a-service model, where there's a lighter, simplified version of the product, which is just for individual users or small businesses. Or, it can come directly out of a database.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare. Often these were things that would make Salesforce more competitive vis-a-vis Oracle and Microsoft. We didn’t have the resources to do it all. In retrospect we could have also encouraged corporate video integration more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2013

Keep these balanced and aligned between people (customers, employees) and process (quality, service, revenue), and keep the scope realistic (eliminating world hunger is too broad). Your value chain is your preferred business model, like premium quality, high service. Segment the opportunity. Keep your value chain consistent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2014

Keep these balanced and aligned between people (customers, employees) and process (quality, service, revenue), and keep the scope realistic (eliminating world hunger is too broad). Your value chain is your preferred business model, like premium quality, high service. Segment the opportunity. Keep your value chain consistent.

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JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we're focused on technology, and financial services. That was quite a prominent exit for us.

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APRIL 18, 2014

Todd Davis: I''m a veteran of Oracle, and had been CEO of an equipment finance company for the construction industry globally. Matt Brinker, our VP of products, comes from the construction industry, as does Rich Haus, our VP of Sales and Service. What''s your background, and how did you get into this?

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Mobile Startup Oracle Los Angeles 133

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JULY 23, 2009

How much competition is there in this space with people like Oracle, SAP, etc? You'd think that SAP would have a module, or surely Oracle has a module. Therese Tucker: The reason for the growth, is we're focused a lot on great service. Therese Tucker: Here's the difference. Those companies offer transactional systems.

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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.

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