Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Continuous innovation is a mindset that you cannot outsource, or bring in through acquisition or consultants. If selected and motivated correctly, these key team members will informally spread the message through the hierarchy, and become the next generation of leaders. Create flat cross-functional teams and experimentation.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Los Angeles-based PeopleSupport, a provider of business process outsourcing services, has gained clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust act for the firm's merger with Mumbai, India-based Essar Group and its Aegis BPO unit. The clearance is a milestone along the firm's way to acquisition by Aegis BPO, a unit of Essar Group.

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socalTECH

JULY 26, 2011

Santa Ana-based CoreLogic , a provider of financial and other information for the mortgage, automotive, property tax, and other areas, said today that it has sold off its India-based captive operations, CoreLogic Global Services Private Limited.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2016

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

We're a big data company, where we look at all the information available worldwide, including documents, job postings, and anything you can publicly get your hands on, and from that, we distill the technology stack of a company. We distill that information with very high accuracy. That's what led to the job at Support.com.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

We provide a turnkey, back end, managed service offering for brands and retailers on an outsourced basis. We are an option for brands who don''t want to build it themselves in-house, from soup to nuts, or don''t want to outsource to a single vendor. For those who haven''t heard of OneStop Internet, tell us about the business?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

When consumers expressed interest in a product, companies would buy their contact information to make outbound phone calls. I had worked before at BEA Systems, the middleware company which was acquired by Oracle in 2004 or 2005, and we used to joke that the company had been built entirely by acquisitions. Why is LA key to that?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. I’m sure it will be fun and informative. It fuels our bonus payments, our quarterly earnings, our growth rate, our value at acquisition time.

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. People have different ways of consuming information. There is absolutely no comparison, but it was the only way for me to digest all of the information, sanely. Be scrappy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. After rejecting the offer, Mike had a team of his best people waiting to ‘kill’ him for turning down an acquisition that would have changed their lives forever financially.

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. If you are looking for information on planning, process and procedure - then you are definitely in the wrong place: Go here instead. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary!

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Probably would have never happened, had all of our information been behind our "information firewall". FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. Zondigo, Inc.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

Outsourcing ▼ April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. If Im a publisher using Google, they already have my customer list, advertising data and revenue information anyway. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU.

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. I plan to do more frequent, informal updates to document the events and decisions that need to be made from the inception of a startup company. A BIG THANK YOU. Zondigo, Inc.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 10, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. I need to absorb the information and energy of the team and participate in the cross-communication. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. For more information on this topic, a friend and colleague of mine, Peter Sealey , wrote a book called "Simplicity Marketing." FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! Zondigo, Inc.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. This post is an accusation. call to arms.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0

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