socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2009

Beckman, which makes equipment used in the biomedical testing market, said that the buy would boost its position in the chemistry and automation areas. Tags: beckman coulter olympus diganostics scientific equipment lifescience merger acquisition. The acquisition was originally announced in February.

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APRIL 20, 2010

They often don’t love testing. They are sticklers about managing unit tests , system tests and regression tests. In fact, they are passionate about automating testing overall. Tags: Start-up Advice. They work on their own schedule and are often hard to manage. But barely.

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CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Billy Fried: We first tested it in California, which was our launch market a year and a half ago. The automated part, is a customer fills out a form and buys the product through their shopping cart. We've done some research with the moms-and-pops, and they really want this technology to automate all they can, if it's not too expensive.

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Activity Startup Sites Web 164

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Test the contact info. Many scammers use an automated spamming program to post jobs repeatedly and throughout different cities. The final test is that when something sounds too good to be true, assume it is a scam. Tags: entrepreneur startup high risk work-at-home scam business. Check posting frequency. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Google Social Network Screening 95

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. On the SAT/ACT side, in classroom tutoring, we have used our technology to automate the back office. Test prep, and private tutoring, is literally one-to-one. The fact is, the test prep business is a nice first business.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

In our beta testing, we had a company that was a billion dollar company, and they were still using Excel spreadsheets. The next thing is there's a new crop of SaaS companies for time management and professional service automation (PSA), thinks like OpenAir/bought by NetSuite, and a handful of others. READ MORE>>.

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Web 2.0 Startup SaaS Report 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

On the other hand, if it is maintenance and testing on non-core software, use the lowest cost solution. Operational products, like process automation or reservation systems, may be large but mundane, and more easily outsourced. Tags: startup software outsource offshore business. Cost factors. Creative or operational.

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Outsource Development Outsource Software Offshore 51

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MARCH 30, 2010

This lets you run A/B tests on your inventory and tells you what performs the best and then optimizes for this. However, we feel the automation and ease of use for such a small percentage will be acceptable to most developers. Tags: Featured SoCal Stuff. How can they claim this? Good luck, guys.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

JULY 8, 2009

It's very automated. She used to test my ads, and I would always say--I know there must be a better way to do this. Tags: software saas analytics content television advertising metrix startup interview. For the first time, it gives them a view of how they're doing compared to their key competitors. Steve Goldman: Very little.

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Advertising Palomar Startup Customer 100

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

million sales quota and the exact knowledge of how to sell salesforce automation tools is going to sell your dinky product that is unproven? But 80% of startups fail the channel test. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Sales & Marketing Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. People need to feed their families.

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