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LAVA Healthcare

SoCal Tech Calendar

LAVA Healthcare is an ongoing conversation about how we might fix the healthcare-industry's mess applying innovation across a wide range of dimensions  including technology, business models, patient involvement, offshore outsourcing, and training programs. Neal is a remarkably smart and insightful speaker.

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Interview with Satish Varma, Clorder

socalTECH

We are an online ordering platform, that helps restaurants enhance their web presence and the profitability of their brand. We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. We caught up with Satish to learn more about the company and its products. What is Clorder?

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. What about outsourcing? For me outsourcing in a pure startup is the kiss of death. What about offshoring? Conventional wisdom is wrong.