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socalTECH Jobs: Job Highlights for August 7th, 2014

socalTECH

THIS ROLE REQUIRES DEEP EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND RELATIONSHIPS IN THE IT SERVICES, TELECOM, CLOUD AND HOSTING MARKET. Our proprietary CLX platform is an enterprise-class, SaaS automation capability set, that partners can private label to package, sell, deliver and manage a broad portfolio of products and services.

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7 Critical Success Factors For A Services Business

Startup Professionals Musings

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

Tech Zulu Event

As we know, long gone are the days of experiencing SXSW Interactive with just 9,000 other tech entrepreneurs and business brights – with 30,000 registrants in 2013 and the final numbers for 2014 still in the works. Erin Chase – Favado , combining price comparisons with grocery shopping. Big ups to the Twitch.TV

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7 Winning Strategies For Smartphone App Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. Here are some ways we both recommend to beat the odds and thrive in today’s app ecosystem: Sell a digital service through your app.

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Entrepreneur Business Forecasts Are Not Black Magic

Startup Professionals Musings

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. For additional value, I suggest the use of a spreadsheet such as Excel as a financial model, with a few variables, like price and volume.

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Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal

Both Sides of the Table

Ability to source information easily to help build a thesis around companies / industries / competition. He jumped into some portfolio company exercises to help with pricing strategies, budget templates, M&A support, marketing function reviews, etc and started to show us how valuable he was to entrepreneurs.

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Should Entrepreneurs Grow Revenue Or User Count?

Startup Professionals Musings

Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with free services to increase their valuation. The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Understanding competitive early-mover requirements. Traditionally, it was simple.