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SoCal Heads to SXSWi | 2012 Panel Picking Guide

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The race to get your SXSWi panel to as many votes as possible so that you will be selected to present at the coming 2012 SXSW. Scaling thru Outsourcing. Strategy to Get Your First 100 Paying Customers (bigMETHOD, Mixergy, Appsumo, Zaarly). Its that time again! Funding: The New Indie: BONA FIDE film.

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The Most Important Panel You’ll Ever Attend | SXSW 2012

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The Most Important Panel You’ll Ever Attend event will be starring an all-star panel of top entrepreneurs from all sorts of industry offering their success to bring on their first 100 paying customers and 1,000 core fans. The hardest part about being a business owner is how to attract those initial paying customers.

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Interview with Satish Varma, Clorder

socalTECH

We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. We thought we found a gap in the market where we could fit in, so we looked at a bunch of the services which were existing in the market, and we designed our own product offering, back in 2012. We started our services in August of 2012.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

socalTECH

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit).

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How to Find and Hire a Developer

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At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. This means selling at least 5-10 customers in advance, before it is even built. Offer the customers a discount for buying in advance. Below are some take away tips… and the video of the of the panel.

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Learn the Laws of the Jungle for Business Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

In 2012, total entrepreneurial activity in the United States hit its highest level since their survey started in 1999, according to Babson College. Talent can also be outsourced, but surviving in the business jungle without talent is unlikely. It’s a jungle out there. That’s the good news and the bad news.

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