socalTECH

MAY 5, 2017

Los Angeles-based TaskUs , which provides business process outsourcing, said this week that it has named Jarrod Johnson as Senior Vice President of Sales. Johnson was most recently SVP of Sales, Marketing, and Client Development at FacilitySource, and also had served at IBM and Xerox. Johnson will be based in Dallas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

For example, at any given moment in your business, you may be limited by development, marketing, or sales. Evaluate outsourcing as a quick solution to break the constraint. This requires that you maintain at least a minimum business development focus and skill set inside your own organization to keep these options on the table.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

If your comfort zone is relying on gut reactions, it’s time to stretch your understanding of what constitutes customer acquisition cost, margins, pipeline closure rates, and sales ROI. They also tend to focus on developing additional features, rather than scaling the business to capitalize on the first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Entrepreneurs who don’t have someone else’s cash for outsourcing come up with the more innovative and creative approaches to get things done. Thus they will insist on a sale or public offering at every opportunity, which will likely force you out. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 08/31/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 04/29/2016. It’s a big change. Not every entrepreneur needs to scale.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

Georg Richter: For the five years before I started the company in January of 2016, I was at Guthy Renker, which is one of the largest and biggest direct marketing companies in the world. It was a logical system to start offering up cloud-based systems like those we had developed. Lots of people struggle to overcome those hurdles.

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