#1: [转帖]A great seminar on SAAS in Palo Alto - 5/31 (1031 reads) 作者: 尚未海归, 时间: 2006-5-26 周五, 12:01 — 作者：尚未海归 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
Come join an unique and very seasoned venture capitalist and entrepreneur couple with great connections in Silicon Valley for a dynamic discussion about "Building SAAS companies: perspectives from a VC and an entrepreneur" presented by SVCEF (Silicon Valley Chinese Entrepreneur Forum).
Speakers:
Joyce Chung, Founding Partner, Cardinal Venture Capital
Rene Lacerte, Founder of PayCycle
Details:
Software as a Service (SAAS) has emerged as the next significant movement in the software landscape, prompting vendors to rethink the architecture of their apps. While still in its infancy, we expect the SaaS model to become the de facto software delivery platform for many ISVs in the years to come.
While we believe that SaaS based models will continue to gain momentum in the coming years, the longer-term question is how long will it take SaaS to become a true software “platform” rather than a series of interesting, but niche, horizontal applications. Is a new method for developing better horizontal and vertical applications emerging? What are the advantages and disadvantages for both vendors and customers? Why does Wall Street value the SAAS companies?
At this event, our distinguished speaker Joyce Chung and her husband Rene Lacerte will share their perspectives on how to build SAAS companies from both a VC perspective and an entrepreneur standpoint. They will discuss
Joyce Chung
Founding General Partner
Cardinal Venture Capital
Joyce Chung is a founding partner of Cardinal Venture Capital.
Prior to forming Cardinal Venture Capital, Joyce managed venture investments for Adobe Ventures. Her portfolio companies included Vignette (Nasdaq: VIGN), e-business applications for building online businesses; DigitalThink (Nasdaq: DTHK), e-learning solution provider to Fortune 1000 companies; Digimarc (Nasdaq: DMRC), digital watermark technologies and applications; and Virage (Nasdaq: VRGE), searchable video technology.
Before joining Adobe Ventures, Joyce managed Adobe Systems' digital video editing and special effects product line, a business that pioneered the desktop digital video editing market.
Joyce came to Adobe from Sony Corporation, where she oversaw the business planning for Sony's branded computer products division, and managed the introduction of a desktop video product line.
Before Sony, Joyce was a marketing executive at Cambridge Technology Group, directing the firm's system integration services for CIO's at Fortune 1000 companies.
Joyce is responsible for investments in Chipcon (acquired by Texas Instruments), Live Capital (acquired by Dun & Bradstreet), Mobilygen, Valista and Zilliant.
Joyce received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Rene Lacerte, Founder of PayCycle
René Lacerte is an entrepreneur that is passionate about payments and small Businesses. As founder of PayCycle, the leading on-demand payroll solution for small businesses, he set the strategy and grew the company to over 25K small enterprise customers before leaving in April of 2006 to start is next company. Prior to founding PayCycle, Mr. Lacerte was at Intuit where he built their online payroll and bill payment businesses. He received his BA and MS from Stanford University and is a 4th generation entrepreneur focused on financial solutions for small businesses.
