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How Do We Make 'Made in San Diego' A Winning Business Model?

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 -- How Do We Make "Made in San Diego" a Winning Business Model? This month, the MITEF San Diego chapter is modifying its standard business case presentation to bring you a dynamic discussion on nearsourcing vs. outsourcing. Ted Fogliani - CEO, Outsource Manufacturing, Inc.; MIT Enterprise Forum.

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Crowdsourcing for the Entrepreneur: Unlocking the Power of Online Communities

SoCal Tech Calendar

Saturday, June 11, 2011 -- Crowdsourcing for the Entrepreneur: Unlocking the Power of Online Communities. How is it different from outsourcing? Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. However, leveraging crowdsourcing also requires an entrepreneur to navigate a complex landscape of questions. Is it truly cost-efficient?

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

companies should… focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial. If you have $hitty products, the marketing is impossible. Instead of focusing on marketing as an activity… integrate it into (your) products.”. Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Rinse & repeat. It takes options off of the table. You have a hunch.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. But it might not.

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Entrepreneurs Challenge The Gartner Hype Cycle

Startup Professionals Musings

back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. The first phase of a hype cycle is the technology trigger or breakthrough, product launch or other event that generates significant press and interest. Plateau of productivity. The Hype Cycle was a concept put forward by Gartner, Inc.

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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

socalTECH

We realized afer 2011 that we were spreading ourselves thin by trying to make five to ten websites great. Evan Britton: We had worked our tails off in 2011, but at the end of the year, all of our sites were flat. We never have to worry about monetization, and outsource that to Google. It was discouraging. Our revenue is solid.

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