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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? A BIG THANK YOU.

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

socalTECH

As you might or might not remember, I joined in 2010 with a vision to turn the company into a true technology company, and pivoted the company to ad technology. Starting in 2010, we started focusing on that. However, that''s who we were in 2002, and stopped being in 2010. Who we are today, is an ad technology company.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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OC Technology Influencer Mixer & Summit 2011

Tech Coast Venture Network

OC Cigars of Laguna Niguel will be serving ARSEN Connoisseur Selection 2010 Dominican cigars exclusively for participants of the event. This is not about paying lip-service to helping small companies — it’s about the genuine representation of their needs and interests in Washington D.C.” said Kevin McDonald, President of TCVN.

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Don’t Pay Bribes to Get International Expansion

Startup Professionals Musings

billion in penalties on companies in 2010. Dealing with the bureaucrats for permits and licenses was once again outsourced to expeditors specialized in these areas. If necessary, you may need to hire a local consultant to help you and your company in navigating complex, and in many instances illogical, rules and practices.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. These products help him win his core sales.

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

SoCal Delicious

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. It is generally a soft touch at the beginning of the development process, perhaps identifying 1-2 early alpha/beta customers to help flesh out use cases to be built upon over time.