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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? I have been outsourcing to India since before it became popular. A BIG THANK YOU.

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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

socalTECH

2009, at which point it was generating enough revenue for me to live on it full time. Sean Broihier: When I was doing the site for my brother, every time they did an in-store promotion, or had an appearance, or they needed to change the prices on their prints, he had to call me, because I had done the website for him. the payroll.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

socalTECH

In 2009, I got my green card and decided to move back here. Back in the day, when you went to Amazon, you ended up at Amazon Germany, where everything was in German, and prices were in German Marks. It was the guy we'd outsourced as CEO. Obviously, we got lots of influential people and money, and hired a ton of people.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. This is one of those services that when you create a new company, it makes sense to outsource things. That pricing scales up with volume, and it's pennies per thousands of emails sent, a very low cost.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). Dec 26, 2009). How it happens.

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