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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Social media facilitates marketing and sales.

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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Social media facilitates marketing and sales.

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How Catalog Is Helping SMBs Compete Against Big Brands

socalTECH

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M There, I learned that there is a lot of top level churn from small businesses because Google ads cost too much.

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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

Startup Professionals Musings

In a new startup, there is tremendous competitive value in registering intellectual property early, but you don’t need to contract these tasks to expensive experts any longer. Skip the costs of payroll, office equipment and employee benefits by using remote contract services and low-cost freelancers available online.

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SoCal Heads to SXSWi | 2012 Panel Picking Guide

Tech Zulu Event

Social + Location + Mobile = The Perfect Beer (Untapped). Design: Developing for a Consumerized Enterprise World (BetterWorks). Man vs Algorithm: Online Video Curation Face-Off (Tubefilter, Google). Scaling thru Outsourcing. Social Media: My Social Community is Bigger than Michael Jordan.

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Interview with Satish Varma, Clorder

socalTECH

For our startup interview this morning, we caught up with Satish Varma , co-founder of Torrance-based Clorder (www.clorder.com), which is developing restaurant ordering software. We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. One, is pay-for-performance, which is the transactional model.

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The Master Checklist of EVERYTHING You Need to Start a Business

Jason Nazar

Check Google , Yellow Pages , and local directories to ensure your business name is not taken. Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Create and manage your social media presence. Master social media marketing.