Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

One major challenge for an enterprise is finding a way to upgrade its infrastructure efficiently to quickly ramp up to meet new network demands. Network scaling issues can also happen in the reverse situation—where an enterprise needs to decrease its network capacity after a seasonal demand goes away to save costs. Wavelength Services.

Networking 88

Networking Services Design Demand 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Use the Internet to outsource staff. Finally, use customer feedback or promotions to attract more and more customers with less and less effort.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

Meeting the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them. Hobbyists and craftsmen have made custom solutions for a very long time, but companies have resisted this requirement to keep costs down.

Ideas 61

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Education 61

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Use the Internet to outsource staff. Finally, use customer feedback or promotions to attract more and more customers with less and less effort.

Startup 107

Startup Technical Review Case Study Software Review 107

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Now you have real customers who can quickly turn off hundreds of potential customers if you ignore their feedback. Now it’s time to make decisions from analytics, customer reviews, and financial results, rather than letting your passion and perseverance convince you that customers will soon see it your way.

Social Network 59

Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

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.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, you must first create the playbook by which an independent sales rep can readily sell your product, including: identifying objections and developing strategies to overcome them, creating reference accounts and establishing meaningful customer adoption. 2) Secure Your Intellectual Property Too Early. 3) Attempt To License An Idea.

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Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

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.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Jason Nazar

JULY 1, 2016

Add in public company demands, lawsuit targets, & millions of customers to continually satisfy, and you have to have great respect for those doing it well. A smaller set of stakeholders should be empowered to make bolder decisions held accountable by customers instead of surveys. But those are paper & plastic symbols.

Entrepreneur 55

Entrepreneur Company Companies Outsource Development 55

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Use the Internet to outsource staff. Finally, use customer feedback or promotions to attract more and more customers with less and less effort.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Case Study 105

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

That's the story at Altadena-based Unified Dispatch , which was recently sold to the On-Demand Division of Veolia. Back in 2003 and 2004, we were focused on the international market, and started outsourcing to India and the Philippines for call center services. Dan Tamkin: Veolia had been a customer of ours for awhile.

Outsource Development 190

Outsource Development Startup Outsource Altadena 190

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2012

Being authentic and genuine makes you attractive to your customers, respected by your team, and effective as a leader. Startup businesses are very demanding. When you understand how you work most effectively, you will do a better job of delegation, use of outsourcing, and selection of partners and employees. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Demand Outsource Satisfaction 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Use the Internet to outsource staff. Finally, use customer feedback or promotions to attract more and more customers with less and less effort.

Technical Review 99

Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

What if you could combine the flexibility of outsourcing with the quality level of highly skilled strategists? We discuss everything from outsourcing, MBA’s, and business, to the lessons learned in building their marketplace for connecting business professionals with the companies who need them. Introducing SkillBridge.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review Outsource 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. Team members and customers expect startup founders to be innovative. Effective entrepreneurs actually enjoy spending time actually doing work (such as selling to customers) rather than just supervising. These executives won’t survive long in a startup environment.

Startup 103

Startup Entrepreneur Template Mentor 103

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Service as a bridge to a product business - One of the best ways for young startups to finance their business without any dilution is what I call “customer financing,&# which is mostly only possible in businesses that target businesses rather than consumers. You own the IP you create. It’s pure irony.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Many aspiring entrepreneurs jump ship from corporate environments, complaining that they want to be their own boss, only to find that investors are more demanding bosses than the ones they left. Entrepreneurs who don’t have someone else’s cash for outsourcing come up with the more innovative and creative approaches to get things done.

Entrepreneur 67

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Outsource Development 67

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Being authentic and genuine makes you attractive to your customers, respected by your team, and effective as a leader. Startup businesses are very demanding. When you understand how you work most effectively, you will do a better job of delegation, use of outsourcing, and selection of partners and employees. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Demand Outsource Satisfaction 93

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

He references CIO Bernard Golden’s argument, made in The IT Jobs Cloud Computing Will Create , that while some roles may disappear altogether, others will remain, but in much less demand. For instance, he says, it’s probably a safe prediction that lower-level, on-premise IT support roles will still exist, but in fewer numbers.

Cloud Computing 85

Cloud Computing Marketing CIO Organization 85

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2012

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. Team members and customers expect startup founders to be innovative. Effective entrepreneurs actually enjoy spending time actually doing work (such as selling to customers) rather than just supervising. These executives won’t survive long in a startup environment.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Startup Template Mentor 94

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

When our Youtube views are driven up, that drives more licensing demand for the video, with other shows interested. That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team.

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Being authentic and genuine makes you attractive to your customers, respected by your team, and effective as a leader. Startup businesses are very demanding. When you understand how you work most effectively, you will do a better job of delegation, use of outsourcing, and selection of partners and employees.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Demand Outsource Satisfaction 48

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Demands on your time. Moral: Before you decide that it’s absolutely necessary to take outside investment, explore all the possible ways you can partner, outsource, affiliate, collaborate, or…heaven forbid, get customers. Much of this depends on how “smart” the money is about what you are doing.

Outsource Development 93

Outsource Development High Tech Outsource Startup 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition.

Startup 126

Startup Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Offshore 126

Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Put yourself in the shoes of your customers or users. Answering only one or two of these questions won’t work. > I need to send marketing, e-commerce or e-statements emails to my customers to drive revenue or reduce costs. A BIG THANK YOU.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review Outsource 87

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition.

Startup 102

Startup Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review 102

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Offshore Startup Technical Review 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition.

Offshore 55

Offshore Technical Review Entrepreneur Outsource 55

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2015

In addition to obvious economic challenges, the emerging generation of customers is determined to radically change the rules for customer engagement. He makes a convincing argument that it’s time for every company to get prepared for the next customer generation, or your company is heading toward life support.

Customer 97

Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2014

In addition to obvious economic challenges, the emerging generation of customers is determined to radically change the rules for customer engagement. He makes a convincing argument that it’s time for every company to get prepared for the next customer generation, or your company is heading toward life support.

Customer 96

Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2021

In addition to obvious economic challenges, the emerging generation of customers is determined to radically change the rules for customer engagement. He makes a convincing argument that it’s time for every company to get prepared for the next customer generation, or your company is heading toward life support.

Customer 173

Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 173

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

In addition to obvious economic challenges, the emerging generation of customers is determined to radically change the rules for customer engagement. He makes a convincing argument that it’s time for every company to get prepared for the next customer generation, or your company is heading toward life support.

Demand 71

Demand Customer Custom Tips 71

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

In addition to obvious economic challenges, the emerging generation of customers is determined to radically change the rules for customer engagement. He makes a convincing argument that it’s time for every company to get prepared for the next customer generation, or your company is heading toward life support.

Demand 56

Demand Customer Custom Tips 56