socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2013

RampRate Sourcing Advisors is a leading IT sourcing advisor with a proprietary index and close network of partners designed to perform fast, efficient IT services transactions. We were recently named Top 10 IT Outsourcing Advisor and Top 5 Boutique Sourcing Advisory recently. The company and this position is Los Angeles based.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Phishing emails are designed to impersonate companies or executives to trick users into turning over sensitive information, typically usernames and passwords, so that scammers can log into online services and steal money or data. It was the one of the best phishing emails we’ve seen… that wasn’t.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

New and innovative designers are popping up everywhere, thanks to new technology like 3D printing. SYNCFAB , (Synchronized Fabrication) is a platform to bring hybrid 3D printing and connect inventors and designers with manufacturers and material specialists to bring back local manufacturing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2020

Don’t forget the wealth of “gig” experts for outsourcing at a low cost. Remember the concept of minimum viable product (MVP), which is designed to test viability and interest before you burn through too much of your energy and resources. Commit to business excellence, but reject perfectionism.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

. “Committing to electrify 2 million American buildings, moving them entirely off of fossil fuels is exactly that — an investment in America leading theway towards creating a new industry creating American jobs that cannot be outsourced, and beginning to reduce the 30% of greenhouse gas emissiosn that come from buildings.”

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Subscribe to RSS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Brings complementary skills and experience.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). We are in Los Angeles and San Diego, and I go between the two cities. It was the guy we'd outsourced as CEO. What we do, is I identify things and start defining features around ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

One Los Angeles company-- OneStop Internet (www.onestop.com) has created a growing business handling exactly that. We provide a turnkey, back end, managed service offering for brands and retailers on an outsourced basis. If e-commerce isn''t your main line of business, how do you get a handle on all of that?

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Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

Most of the solutions in our market are for lots of doctors, and are on-premise solutions, and are really designed for bigger physician groups and hospitals. We were hired by a company that did outsourced medical billing and consulting for physicial medicine and rehab doctors. We''re laser focused on small medical practices.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Try to identify developers that are flexible in their design. cleverua.com – outsourced web & mobile app development based in the Ukraine, Ask for Pavlo. datatv.com – web & interactive mobile web development based in Los Angeles, Ask for Adam. biznessapps.com – easy mobile app creation for businesses.

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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. One guy was a designer, two guys were Ruby engineers, and I included – not an engineer. I think design forward companies, we can get a little more attention and more referral traffic from that fact that we focus on aesthetics.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. Attract and retain the highly skilled and motivated people.

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Satisfaction Patents Outsource Development Services 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production.

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Outsource Development Startup Ideas Tool 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process. It all has to be written down and maintained.

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Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production.

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Ideas Outsource Development Tool Outsource 53

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. Attract and retain the highly skilled and motivated people.

Product 91

Product Services Satisfaction Patents 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Brings complementary skills and experience.

Software Review 56

Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development CTO Coach 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process. It all has to be written down and maintained.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process. It all has to be written down and maintained.

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Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process. It all has to be written down and maintained.

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Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

Steve Reich

MARCH 23, 2012

Apparently, the original architect had a grasp of green concepts when the building was designed early in the last century. Klaus, who has started two companies in Santa Barbara incubators, pointed out that he gets great leverage from “outsourcing” all of the headaches of setting up phones, data lines, and office admin to incubators.

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Santa Barbara Incubator Technology Outsource 49

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Design a logo ( 99designs ). Find sources of capital— friends & family, business bank loans , angel investment , venture capital or even crowdfunding ( Crowdfunder , Fundable ). If outsourced development is needed, use Guru or Elance. Open your company bank account. Identity and Branding. Recommended. Recommended.

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Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

When I first talked with TZ, it was pretty much me just working on the platform and I had outsourced the development to a firm. Back then we invested very little in design. We invested a lot more in design and user interaction by trying to really simplify the experience for whoever visits Miigle, whether member or non-member.

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SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Ive built development teams in Chicago, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and India. Los Angeles was a bit more difficult to find engineers; they were the most creative but more expensive than Chicago. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU.

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Outsource Development Startup .Net Venture Capital 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

where her clients included global leaders in the outsourcing and telecom sectors and a number of prominent non-profits. He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups. Dave McClure. . gigaom.com. .

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

These weaknesses can be addressed in a variety of ways, ranging from engaging part-time, outsourced help to bringing on experienced advisors to help out early in the company's life. Website Design: Aquinox StatCounter. These are not revolutionary suggestions, just not necessarily those acted upon by first-time CTO / entrepreneurs.

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CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Mentor 28

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What do we build in-house or outsource? What other kinds of capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA will we need? How can we phase development to balance cost, features, risk, etc?

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CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231

Frank Addante

JULY 10, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? My apologies for the sporadic activity… I am in the process of relocating back from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, so things are a bit hectic at the moment. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit A BIG THANK YOU.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 16, 2010 I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back in the enterprise software game. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. This doesn’t make sense.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? PS - We are looking for great, A++ team members in the Los Angeles (Santa Monica) area. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4.

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Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The expanding pool of angel, seed, and super seed funds is another. If you are an entrepreneur or active in the angel/seed sector, you should read it. But since our firm does participate in select angel/seed rounds, this was interesting to me. Of the 8 founders at the dinner, half of them had a design/ui/ux background.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Sequoia has a tremendous reputation, but it was also important to us to have a local (Los Angeles) VC as well. Additionally, we did not fully appreciate or understand the different nuances in the work culture between Los Angeles and Silicon Valley.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Chicago, New York, Miami, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc.) aggressive) are very different than people from Los Angeles (i.e. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4.

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Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles. Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0

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