TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Fast forward to almost exactly one year later, and a lot has changed for the payments and software startup. 4 key areas SaaS startups must address to scale infrastructure for the enterprise. But the company says its offering extends beyond traditional payment processing and point-of-sale software.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. New products we've launched include performance, onboarding, and backend HR functionality. In the past, we had been a one product company. We saw that opportunity, and executed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.” This is why I loved Brad Feld’s recent post about the “ illusion of product / market fit.” Are our users addicted to our product?

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Bobbie One startup that's proved to have the formula for success this year is Bobbie – the first infant formula to be certified as organic by the USDA, and the fastest-growing product of its kind to enter the US market since the 1980s. Organic milk formula product Bobbie. million site visits in October alone. Gumroad homepage.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2020

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , which develops software to help multi-location brands manage their reviews, location listings, and much more, says it has rolled out a new product.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

I think that’s a largely flawed fight to be picking and of all the uses of Senator Klobuchar’s I could think of some much more productive fights to be having. For starters Uber itself has had to lay off 27% of its workforce due to the pandemic and has been severely impacted financially from the crisis with no immediate respite in sight.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There were startups and a software industry but barely. 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. There was no money train. It was 1991. We still loved every moment. Until we weren’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper. years of software development. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2016

However, they clearly have a long term impact on the customer’s overall satisfaction and thus their propensity to purchase additional products in the future. Startups do not always have the luxury to optimize their product for both buyers and users. Users, on the other hand, immediately saw the benefits of SaaS.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Specifically, the program was designed to provide backing to women founders building product-centric businesses – including those developing, marketing, or selling digital, physical, or hybrid products. Businesses at any stage are welcome to submit an application. Deadline: October 31, 2024 Learn more and apply here 4.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2014

We spoke with George Collado , CEO and founder of the company, to hear about how his own battles trying to manage a number of restaurants was the genesis of the company''s product. George Collado: It''s employee management software. I just didn''t have any idea, and it was too cumbersome to do all these reviews.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Pasadena-based Central Desktop , which offers a software-as-a-service, team project management application, is being forced to swap out its spreadsheet support, telling its users today that it is switching from using EditGrid to Zoho's Sheet product. Tags: central desktop software saas project management editgrid zoho.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We successfully accelerated our product innovation schedule to deliver, in record time, solutions to meet these challenges. It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? ,p>

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

For today's interview, we sat down and talked with Mike Whitmire , the CEO and Co-founder of Los Angeles-based FloQast (www.floqast.com), a developer of financial close management software for enterprise accounting. Mike tells us about the company, who uses its software, as well as how he was initially turned away from the Amplify.LA

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Ken Button: I am a corporate attorney, and started in private practice at O'Melvany and Myers, and later served as General Counsel for a software business. We have been around software for a long time. We've been really happy with the product itself. We've gotten great reviews from our user surveys.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. What is TrackStreet? It allows us to start peeling the onion.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

In product business it is often measured over multiple purchases and assumptions are made about the repeat rates and in the enterprise or services world LTV can be based on churn rates, which are notoriously hard to predict in an early-stage business. If you can’t raise — you’re dead. End of story. LTV is imprecise. That bit is easy.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2012

Carlsbad-based MaintenanceNet , the developer of sales channel management and service agreement renewal software, reported that it's expanding Down Under today. The firm said it has signed a new, value added distributor in Australia, Westcon Group Australia, who will offer its product to its resellers for free. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. How are we going to manage the product roadmap? How can we address this risk?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. How are we going to manage the product roadmap? What do we need to do to make sure we can survive technical due diligence by investors and partners?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

If your last company was Apple, Blackberry, AdMob or JAMDAT and you have some experience in the sector then I know that your product will have your experiences baked into it. My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). version of their product was.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It allows you to share private and confidential information about your company, and have a dialog with your investors, within a walled garden where you can put the documents you need for diligence. This was back when you had to do a couple of rounds of funding to just get your product out of the door. Thanks, and good luck!

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 finance software such as Wesabe and Mint, and applied it to the corporate expense area. technology to make submitting expense reports extremely easy.

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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 read product reviews obsessively. The user base revolted, and their glowing reviews on the App Store suddenly turned negative.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup. how to market our products and company. Defections of large swaths of talented employees due to low morale.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

Pasadena-based Central Desktop , the online provider of project management and collaboration tools, announced today that it has launched a new product targeted at marketing agencies.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

In some ways having seen these trends before and being a bit more mature (code for I’m 47) I think I feel just a little bit less pressure than I did when I was younger. But honestly 10 extra hours in the office each day we would be there is way more productive. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue?

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. In order to create a SaaS platform which acts as the “last mile” to public clouds, RightScale began operations by providing consulting services to companies who wanted to access Amazon’s EC3 services.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Also at Startup Night will be 25 diverse and innovative startups showcasing their latest products, competing for prizes including: $1K from LaunchKC , Business Extra Points from American Airlines , and a fast tracked spot to the Startup of the Year semifinals competition at Innovate Celebrate 2018. Siggi Hindrichs, Principal at Samsung NEXT.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times. Our software wasn’t fully baked. We had one of the largest US software companies talk about buying us. Our product releases took longer to ship than we had hoped. We were unprepared.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Here’s my thoughts on improving your relationships with journalists and as a by-product improving the coverage that they afford you: 1. Don’t put in the time to getting coverage until your product rocks. Guy Kawasaki said it best (paraphrasing), “you can’t do great marketing with a bad product.&#

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

For parents, if you're interested in how your kids are doing, you can find out what their schedule is like, what homework is due when, what their grades are, and how they are progressing, plus you can communicate with their teachers. In the meantime, I was getting frustrated with the software being used at my son's school.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Similar to like-minded startups that are partnered with the target BDC, most VARs are fairly accessible and willing to learn about new industry trends and product offerings. Review the person’s publicly available information from social media sites. Thus, find a similarity with a potential Escort before approaching them for help.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 via Email alerts or RSS.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. Most were on paper and video; 20 were invited to pitch in person.

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