Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

This is the confirmation that your product or service fills a real need in the marketplace. Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

a provider of software product engineering services based in Bangalore, India, it has acquired CoreObjects and its delivery centers in Bangalore and Pune, India. Symphony Services said the buy expands its offerings in product development and embedded product development. According to Symphony Service Corp. , READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. Up-sell related products or cross endorsement. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Willing to learn from each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

You need to understand motives of buyer (talent, product, revenue, strategic purchase) and where you fit in. Outsourcing can be cheap. Both can hurt you in an acquisition. Don’t put all your eggs in the “corp dev basket” – often deals are champions by the business units (product or sales).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

Startup 126

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big.

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Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Startup 40

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Wave Technology Solutions Group provides IT consulting, business process outsourcing, and other products to corporations, government agencies, and municipalities. Tags: radianta merger technology acquisition integrator consulting wave system solutions.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

The business model, is people use this to do better marketing and sales targeting when they sell their own products. For example, if I'm a competitor to the Citrix Virtual Desktop software, from Vmware, I might want to know all of the companies who are using Citrix, so I can talk to them about how my products are better, and meet their needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

But in my experience as a startup advisor, too many entrepreneurs get stuck there, and always find excuses for not really exploring mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and alliance alternatives. Evaluate outsourcing as a quick solution to break the constraint. That’s called organic growth , and everybody does it.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. Your own website can clean a lot of that up, and control that, if that makes sense.

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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. Up-sell related products or cross endorsement. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Willing to learn from each other.

Startup 59

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

Entrepreneur 87

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

This is the confirmation that your product or service fills a real need in the marketplace. Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing.

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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. Up-sell related products or cross endorsement. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Willing to learn from each other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

If your comfort zone is relying on gut reactions, it’s time to stretch your understanding of what constitutes customer acquisition cost, margins, pipeline closure rates, and sales ROI. Technical entrepreneurs are usually more comfortable continuing to perfect their product, than validating a minimum viable product (MVP).

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. Thus, I will recruit independent distributors and they will sell my new and innovative products on my behalf. 8 ) Grant Exclusivity.

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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. Up-sell related products or cross endorsement. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Willing to learn from each other.

Startup 55

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

This is the confirmation that your product or service fills a real need in the marketplace. Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing.

Satisfaction 61

Satisfaction Startup Customer Custom 61

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Back in 2003 and 2004, we were focused on the international market, and started outsourcing to India and the Philippines for call center services. The ultimate solution were products to connect business travelers to a taxi company, and also to paratransit. How did acquisition come about?

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

Startup 102

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team. My role has been around the product, and team building, and organization. We can bring in a clip, cleared in about eight hours.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

Entrepreneur 105

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

Offshore 55

Offshore Technical Review Entrepreneur Outsource 55

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

More specifically, we are a real time bidding platform which enables marketplaces to be set up, where an advertiser can bid on consumers who are in the process of buying a particular product. Real time bidding allows advertisers to bid on users in a particular market, who are likely to be purchasing that company''s product.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels. No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. When you build a great solution or product, all you can think about is shipping more volume of your product to a larger audience.

Social Network 59

Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

socalTECH

JULY 5, 2016

Irvine-based American Industrial Systems , a provider of engineering services and products for the Interet-of-Things, oil and gas, industrial automation, and other markets, has sold a 60 percent stake of the company to Ennoconn. Financial terms of the sale were not announced. Ennoconn is a subsidiary of Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group.

Sales 133

Sales Product Services Marketing 133

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big.

Outsource Development 40

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Frank Addante

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ▼ December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

The bottom line is that the TaxJar team is happy - and because we're happy, we're incredibly productive.”. “We He then joined Picasa and was instrumental in its acquisition by Google. Our team has flexible schedules that allow them to spend time with the kids in the early evening and hit the slopes on a perfect powder day.

Entrepreneur 100

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Your chores can be outsourced through Porter. That’s the only thing that is outsourced. We haven’t had any capital to really test customer acquisition strategies. If I had any advice to give to entrepreneurs it would be, build a minimum viable product that’s not a utility unless it’s a utility people will pay for on day one.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. 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.

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socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2015

Cast & Crew was owned by ZM Capital , and offers up technology-enabled production accounting and related value-added services to the entertainment industry. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Cast & Crew was advised by Moelis & Company LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Sidley Austin LLP in the deal.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Understandably, the pricing has to be excessive to provide sufficient margin for the product’s producer and an adequate incentive for the non-profit organization. Yet when a child attempts to sell such mis-priced items, the experience is often discouraging, due to the poor cost / value equation associated with such fundraising products.

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Web 2.0 Web Sales Outsource Development 222

Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big.

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