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Why Selling To The Government Can Downgrade Your Startup

InfoChachkie

I am not a government contracting expert. In fact, during my many years as an operational entrepreneur, I explicitly avoided working with governments, for the reasons described below. In the parlance of government contracting, this approach is termed a “prime and sub-prime relationship.” The Downside Of Government Contracting.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

socalTECH

Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. In 2009, I got my green card and decided to move back here. It was the guy we'd outsourced as CEO. We've noticed many international entrepreneurs locating here recently, like yourself. What are TenFarms and PhotoPoll? So you're making multiple applications?

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Meet the Investors & Tech Leaders Judging at Startup Night SXSW 2018

Tech.Co

The program has been so successful that the startups have leveraged $48M in private capital to further their development. 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.

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Vizio and the Story of the Sleeping Giant

Tech Zulu Event

Over 600 people came to this event to listen share and network, including entrepreneurs, VC’s and investors. Vizio’s vision was to develop high quality, affordable HDTV’s for a mass market. Later in 2002, Vizio become profitable resulting from a consulting contract with Gateway Computers and the company never looked back.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

socalTECH

We really started scaling the business in 2009 and 2010, to where we are now with 300 employees, hiring quite rapidly both here in LA as well as in our international offices. You mentioned you were just three people, how did you develop what you did with just three people at the time? Did you take investment initially?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Hire Entrepreneurs!

Frank Addante

2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? Hire Entrepreneurs!