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TaskUs Tops 5,000 Employees

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Santa Monica-based TaskUs , the outsourcing firm founded by Jaspar Weir and Bryce Maddock, said today that it has just passed up 5,000 employees. The company--which had just over 1,000 employees in 2014, and started with a mere 5 employees in 2011--says it now has five outsourcing centers in the Philippines.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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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. You own the IP you create.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. The former was outsourced, the latter was our own team. Rinse & repeat. This is total bullshit.

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Future of The Cloud is Bright | Just Ask the Market

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Hulme also argues that organizations will always need IT, business experts, security experts, and engagement managers to handle relationships with the growing number of third-party and outsourcing vendors cropping up around the cloud. “Of course, IT jobs within solution providers and at consultancies will remain.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." How to Enchant Your Customer - How to Change the World , November 23, 2010 I love to do business with small businesses—in-store, online, for myself, for others, for pleasure, for work—it doesn’t matter to me. If nothing changes, when will you run out of money?

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011. Founded in 2011 with the goal of saving lives through soap, Jack’s gives one bar away every time one is sold. Cyrus Farudi – Co-founder of Capsule. Bridget Hilton – Founder of Jack’s Soap. Tyler Bleszinski – Founder of SB Nation.