SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 8, 2012

Given the mind boggling speed of change in web and mobile technologies, on shoring, offshoring, intellectual property protection and slew of other challenges, the road to success is full of obstacles. Software products, while being easier to mold and perfect, offer additional set of management and technical challenges.

Develop 113

Develop Development Product Offshore 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 24, 2012

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.

LAVA 100

LAVA Offshore Outsource Training 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 23, 2012

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.

LAVA 113

LAVA Offshore Outsource Coach 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Cerritos-based Direct Drive Systems , a developer of high speed motors for the oil and gas industry, has been acquired by Houston-based FMC Technologies, FMC said earlier this week. Direct Drive is a spinout of Calnetix.

Cerritos 140

Cerritos Offshore Acquisition Platform 140

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 18, 2011

LAVA Healthcare is an ongoing conversation about how we might fix the mess applying innovation across a wide range of dimensions  including technology, business models, patient involvement, offshore outsourcing, and training programs. Many argue that ObamaCare will worsen the problem, others argue its a great solution.

LAVA 100

LAVA Offshore Outsource Training 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2023

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Don’t expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you.

Software Review 114

Software Review Technical Review Outsource Development Outsource 114

Technology Council

OCTOBER 3, 2008

Offshore Outsourcing is Dying…Long Live Hybrid Nearshore. Here are quick links to the feature articles in this issue: Magnify360 Wins VentureNet Best Of Show 5 Mistakes To Avoid When Building Your Startup “Out Of The Box” PR Tactics. 4 Rules For Email Design In [.]

Newsletter 100

Newsletter VentureNet Offshore Outsource 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

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Southern California 133

Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 133

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Dont expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. core competency entrepreneur near shoring offshoring outsource startup' Marty Zwilling.

Outsource Development 95

Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Offshore 95

socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2008

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies said today that it has acquired Odom Hydrographic Systems, a Louisiana-based firm developing hydrographic survey instrumentation. Teledyne said that Baton Rouge-based Odom has designs and manufactures equipment for port survey, dredging, offshore energy and other applications.

Thousand Oaks 100

Thousand Oaks Offshore Acquisition Design 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2008

According to VanceInfo Technologies, it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wireless Info Tech, in a deal worth $1.08M in cash plus stock. VanceInfo is an IT services provider providing offshore software development in China. San Diego-based Wireless Info Tech Ltd.,

Offshore 100

Offshore San Diego Software Development Mobile 100

SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

Update from original - just saw a follow-up post by Ben Kuo - Southern California Technology Jobs Surge. I’ll leave that for another discussion as the inquiry that I keep getting is more about local talent than offshore talent. in terms of the activity, with not only jobs aplenty, but offers and counter-offers hitting good talent.

Develop 175

Develop Development Southern California TechEmpower 175

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Don’t expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you.

Outsource Development 122

Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Technical Review 122

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2017

I've also been in technology since I was AOL in the 90's. We actually started with the musician matching site, because it was a smaller technology challenge. In lots of the cities I've lived in, I've usually been the band leaders, and the person who tried to find the gigs, so I'm pretty familiar with this area.

Startup 150

Startup Offshore Metrics Sites 150

Inverted Software

JUNE 15, 2018

At Inverted Software we often help our clients manage offshore and onshore development teams. Experimenting with Bleeding Edge technologies. They learn and try new frameworks and technologies and often get excited about the possibilities of incorporating technology they deem cool into their code.

Software Review 51

Software Review Software Development Outsource Development Development Team Review 51

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. The current way people handle this is someone calls a call center, they walk through a process by phone call.

UCLA 204

UCLA Research Tech Coast Angels Offshore 204

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Technology level. If you expect your solution to incorporate the absolute latest in software technologies, scalable to millions of users, with multi-system failover and recovery, don’t count on out-sourcing. Tags: startup software outsource offshore business. Protect your intellectual property. Marty Zwilling.

Outsource Development 51

Outsource Development Outsource Software Offshore 51

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

And they might give a premium if the team has been around a longer period of time, has built some hard-to-build proprietary technology or has some customer traction. Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely.

Press 357

Press Startup Yahoo Venture Capital 357

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Don’t expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you.

Outsource Development 53

Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Technical Review 53

socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. We are helping them with restaurant operations, and helping them manage technology. My first step was working at a startup, which launched Dell phones for Android, and after which I ended up in Chicago at Vcube Communications.

Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Social Media Outsource Development 100

Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2018

Technology from foreign nations may also be subject to stricter “immigration” rules. It’s not only people from other countries that are struggling harder to get into the United States these days, it seems.

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Software Review Software Technology 49

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

technology to make submitting expense reports extremely easy. Eric Sikola: We've got seven people full time, and all our development is offshore, our CTO is onshore, and we have people doing graphical design locally plus others helping part time. finance software such as Wesabe and Mint, and applied it to the corporate expense area.

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Startup SaaS Report 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

A look around technology industry, perhaps the heart of the global revolution, shows a happily working international community all pushing for the common goal of innovation. Yes, it is a floating crusade to be located 12 miles offshore of San Francisco free from immigration regulation.

Technical Review 77

Technical Review Startup Offshore Entrepreneur 77

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. Internationalization of Technology. We spoke about what succeeds early in technology market evolutions. If you have some time I highly recommend watching it.

Venture Capital 403

Venture Capital Education Offshore Outsource Development 403

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g., New goldmine of innovations and technology. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

Startup 126

Startup Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Offshore 126

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Interestingly, we’ve won a number of deals by being the not–offshore alternative. Most people I know have had extremely bad experiences with offshore development. We know that the market changes every few years, and we’re always looking over the horizon at new technologies. Fourth is embracing change.

Offshore 120

Offshore Examples Email Software 120

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Interestingly, we’ve won a number of deals by being the not-offshore alternative. Most people I know have had extremely bad experiences with offshore development. We know that the market changes every few years, and we’re always looking over the horizon at new technologies. Fourth is embracing change.

Offshore 189

Offshore Southern California Examples Email 189

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g., New goldmine of innovations and technology. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review IBM 87

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g., New goldmine of innovations and technology. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

Startup 102

Startup Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2011

We have heard that there are significant tax advantages in doing business offshore. Manufacturing offshore could impact intellectual property. Managing international operations includes several different functions, ranging from sales to a thorough understanding of finance, technology and legal.

Startup 91

Startup Offshore Patents Outsource Development 91

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g., New goldmine of innovations and technology. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Offshore Startup Technical Review 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g., New goldmine of innovations and technology. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

Offshore 55

Offshore Technical Review Entrepreneur IBM 55

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. That india isn’t just a headline about call centers, computing programming and offshoring.

Class 334

Class Writing Web 2.0 Offshore 334

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I first learned the ropes around SEO (search engine optimization) and how for years this has been a cat-and-mouse game where people game the system (Google) through link exchanges, offshore SEO “agencies,&# widgets, algorithmically optimized content and the like that degrades the quality of search results. I’ll help promote it.

News 284

News Blogging Search Engine Optimization SEO 284

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

There is a core that exists in human connectedness that no amount of technology can replace. What about offshoring? First, many people confuse outsourcing and offshoring. Offshoring is when you have your own team build it but your own team is located a separate location where wages are significantly cheaper.

Technical Advisors 335

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335