SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It’s very difficult to communicate the value of my services and it’s even harder to find people/companies looking to outsource their product development to a business guy like myself. How do I find entrepreneurs who have a great idea that can get or has got funding who need a CTO and/or development team? I like the idea.

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Los Angeles Product Angel Startup 179

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2020

The first thing to remember is that banks only do loans – they don’t do equity investments like angels and venture capitalists (and vice versa). Show focus and your understanding that your company is something more than just a good idea. What a banker is looking for is validation of your idea. Be concise as well as complete.

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Technical Advisors Tips Startup Equity 162

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

These days, everyone wants to be an entrepreneur, pitching their latest and greatest new idea, and looking for someone to give them money. 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. Quantify the implementation challenges.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 124

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Los Angeles has been in the midst of a technology boom over the last few years, with many of high profile startups growing in the area. In 2008, we started to throw around ideas, and eventually settled on this one. It makes Los Angeles traffic look like a walk in the park. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 129

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Satisfaction Equity 129

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

Ahead of the conference, we sat down and spoke with Kevin Anderson , co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), a rapidly growing developer of point-of-sale software, on the topic of customer service. Lots of startups talk about trying to outsource all their customer support.

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Customer Custom Services Conference 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

These days, everyone wants to be an entrepreneur, pitching their latest and greatest new idea, and looking for someone to give them money. 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. Quantify the implementation challenges.

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Outsource Development Startup Ideas Tool 105

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. in funding from Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital, DFJ Frontier, and angel investors.

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Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

It's a story you hear too many times: a venture or angel funded firm just can't figure out its business, runs low on cash, can't get another round of funding, and soon all that's left is a few chairs and servers. I became the CFO at the old Unified Dispatch, which over time, had raised $4.5M to create call centers for ground transportation.

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Outsource Development Startup Outsource Altadena 190

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs the last couple of years is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Ideas crowd sourcing. Sites like IdeaBounty get your ideas off the shelf, and give you the wisdom of the crowds.

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Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 99

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs these days is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Ideas crowd sourcing. Sites like GeniusCrowd get your ideas off the shelf, and give you the wisdom of the crowds.

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Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 96

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The first thing to remember is that banks only do loans – they don’t do equity investments like angels and venture capitalists (and vice versa). Show focus and your understanding that your company is something more than just a good idea. What a banker is looking for is validation of your idea. Be concise as well as complete.

Technical Advisors 75

Technical Advisors Entrepreneur Equity Ideas 75

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

We also have a cloud-baesd, billing and practice management solutions, which enables them to manage all of their internal financial processes, and we also have solutions for billing and cloud-based outsourcing of back office tasks. I actually remember talking with Travis, prior to Uber, when he was an angel investor.

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Startup El Segundo CTO Hire Outsource Development 160

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

However, manufacturing locally is usually an expensive option, which leads a lot of projects to be outsourced to other countries like China and India. Los Angeles has been the hotbed of creative innovations in recent years. Los Angeles might get even more crowded in the near future thanks to the platform SYNCFAB has created.

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Design Platform Patents Outsource Development 84

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why. Funding process.

Startup 107

Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. Your chores can be outsourced through Porter. That’s the only thing that is outsourced. Everybody’s idea is a non-revenue generating app. My advice is picking an idea that is a utility that people will actually pay for.

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Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The first thing to remember is that banks only do loans – they don’t do equity investments like angels and venture capitalists (and vice versa). Show focus and your understanding that your company is something more than just a good idea. What a banker is looking for is validation of your idea. Be concise as well as complete.

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Technical Advisors Startup Equity Ideas 80

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Even if you can’t read the code, if it looks organized, and you see a mix of English words (comments) around code that looks like it has structure, then you can get an idea of how they organize things. cleverua.com – outsourced web & mobile app development based in the Ukraine, Ask for Pavlo.

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CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop Development 81

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Los Angeles’s very own Espree Devora (aka The Girl That Gets It Done ), has put together quite the exciting event for this year’s SXSW conference. Where did the idea for the event come spark from? One mastermind focuses on how to outsource development and programming.

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Mixergy Outsource Development Outsource Conference 70

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

That seed funding was really to let us prove the concept and build the technology to enable returns in person at retailers, and let us figure out whether or not customers wanted to return this way, and get an idea of how to scale. We did a pilot in two cities, Los Angeles and Chicago. David Sobie: There were two things for them.

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Training Customer Custom Software Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why. Funding process.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2016

As an advisor to startups and an angel investor, I encounter many Millennials as entrepreneurs who are leaders and great role-models for the rest of us in business. In a startup, you can’t afford to outsource too many functions. Smart entrepreneurs know what they don’t know, and work hard to fill the gaps.

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Entrepreneur News Outsource Activity 60

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why. Funding process.

Startup 102

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why. Funding process.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media (www.jukinmedia.com) thinks it has figured that out, and instead of trying to create viral videos, has been buying up the rights to those videos--before they really go viral--to create not just a one-hit, viral video wonder, but a sustainable business. We can bring in a clip, cleared in about eight hours.

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Media Content Startup IP 235

SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I have met dozens of brilliant technologists with fantastic ideas, ideas requiring nurturing, mentoring and support. 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.

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CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Mentor 28

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

And I have been impressed with Steven Kaplan and others at University of Chicago (my alma mater), who have been encouraging entrepreneurship through the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship , through angel investing , seed conferences and changes in teaching. Internationalization of Technology. Have a Happy with Career. Stay Out of Jail.

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Venture Capital Education Offshore Outsource Development 403

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.), where her clients included global leaders in the outsourcing and telecom sectors and a number of prominent non-profits. At Lunch, you share and discover genuinely useful information and ideas.

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

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). What we do, is I identify things and start defining features around ideas. We are in Los Angeles and San Diego, and I go between the two cities. It was the guy we'd outsourced as CEO.

Mobile 233

Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

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. I observed that when I was working at that VC firm, and saw that it was a very smart idea.

Commerce 203

Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? It’s 2010 and that idea has not graduated to mainstream yet. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What do we build in-house or outsource? Here in Los Angeles, it's the LA CTO Forum - a private, invite only group of 250+. In addition to networking, I would suggest that formal learning is a great idea. How will we address these without significant cost? How are we going to manage the product roadmap?

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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. Zondigo was an idea, a team and capital in search of a business plan. A BIG THANK YOU.

Startup 40

Startup Technical Review Venture Capital Advertising 40

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Ideation & Protecting Ideas. Vet your idea with the idea checklist. Protect your ideas when sharing them with others by using an NDA. Find sources of capital— friends & family, business bank loans , angel investment , venture capital or even crowdfunding ( Crowdfunder , Fundable ). Recommended.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup. Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. At the time, everyone seemed to be enamored with the idea that your company had to be ‘all things to all people’. were doing.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

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. We thought we had a great idea and we wanted to see how people responded to it. We know that Miigle is a platform for entrepreneurs to share ideas. Back then we invested very little in design.

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SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Idea Mensch. 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.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78