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MAY 16, 2024

Here are seven funding opportunities you should know more about if you’re serious about financially safeguarding and scaling your venture. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA Galaxy Grants Community Development Financial Institutions Fund 🔎 Want to browse the web privately?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. He is regarded by many as the number-one authority on virtual staffing and personal outsourcing, and is himself a successful entrepreneur based in the Philippines. Be flexible.

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Outsource Development Outsource Startup Summary 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. He is regarded by many as the number-one authority on virtual staffing and personal outsourcing, and is himself a successful entrepreneur based in the Philippines. Be flexible.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2021

Why fight about valuation, or disappoint the founder at the outset? This one is using outsourced development, support, outsourced customer relations and more. The total capital raise was under $600,000, and the founder retains majority control of his baby through this and even one optional future round.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 24, 2020

Divergent, the Los Angeles-based startup aiming to revolutionize vehicle manufacturing, has cut about one-third of its staff amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended startups and major corporations alike. “This was about making the company as totally weatherproof as possible,” Czinger said. The company’s No.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. First, what is All About Addiction about? An offshoot of running that group for a few years, was this website, All About Addiction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. He is regarded by many as the number-one authority on virtual staffing and personal outsourcing, and is himself a successful entrepreneur based in the Philippines. Be flexible.

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Outsource Development Outsource Entrepreneur Summary 121

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

million from investors Trucks VC, Kapor Capital, JFF, Energy Impact Partners and The Fund. The newly minted founder joined the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator , where she developed a curriculum to teach people how to repair EV chargers. ChargerHelp takes a workforce-development approach to finding employees. Hiring approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.

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Berkonomics

JULY 10, 2014

Why fight about valuation, or disappoint the founder at the outset? The second story involves a founder who is using outsourced development, support, outsourced customer relations and more. This founder was not hung up on valuation for the second company, just upon efficient use of capital.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As the catalyst for this collaborative fantasy epic, these authors would post twelve initial origin stories about their fictional universe, to which they owned the copyright. Within hours, fans confronted the authors in the Discord server with their concerns about the project. An emerging tech dystopia.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 17, 2019

Now, more than $35 million dollars later , the company has been awarded a multi-year contract to build and operate its own rocket launch facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. That contract, awarded by The 45th Space Wing of the Air Force, is the first direct agreement the U.S. space and missile defense program.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It provided an industry-leading graphic development interface, but was not so strong on modeling and simulation. As a result, we shared in capturing a new high-end market, without major new marketing or development. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution. You can do the same.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Unit costs are important, but don’t forget about the cash flow hit, extra storage costs, and the probability of obsolete inventory due to necessary updates or pivots. Outsourcing services that could be done in-house. Outsourcing is an expensive solution for poor planning. Outsourcing is an expensive solution for poor planning.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Using its proprietary printing technology, Relativity says it can slash the time it takes to develop a rocket from design to launch by up to two years. Even as Relativity was finalizing the details of this new financing round, Elon Musk was unveiling new details. space industry.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

However, every so often, you hear about a firm at that point, which is able to turn around, build a sustainable business, and is eventually sold for a positive return. Back in 2003 and 2004, we were focused on the international market, and started outsourcing to India and the Philippines for call center services.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► October (1) New Video!

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Ben Satterfield is the co-founder of TestFlight, an immensely popular piece of software for iOS (and now Android) which lets developers distribute beta copies of their apps to their users. TestFlight recently joined forces with Burstly (www.burstly.com) to create a suite of apps for mobile developers and publishers. What is Burstly?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. I have written about the next phases many times. This is all about “leverage” which is the key to success. And so must you.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based Unitas Global (www.unitasglobal.com) recently raised a round of funding from MK Capital and Azure Capital for its vision of helping enterprises make that transition to cloud technology. You have a track record in infrastructure--can you talk about that, and why you decided to tackle the cloud?

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Cloud Computing Outsource Development Outsource Startup 217

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

This year, we're again sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Lots of startups talk about trying to outsource all their customer support. The Recurring Revenue Conference , Presented by Sutton Capital Partners, is being held on April 12th.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

One of the promising companies that participated in Startup Boosts Fall 2018 cohort  Lawgood (link: [link]  uses AI as part of their service to provide review and authorship of legal contracts. They also have to be willing to lead by example, while not being afraid to show vulnerability and honesty about their limitations.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Pilot agreements are provisional contracts under which companies can assess the veracity of a potential, long-term relationship. The “go / no go” structure of such contracts effectively allows big companies to defer their ultimate decision of whether or not they want to work with the startup until after the Pilot is completed.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Some of the most common include: Junked-up Capital Table – A hodgepodge of small investors who may cause potential headaches for management and/or institutional investors. As such, remote members in key roles should be prepared to either routinely commute or relocate, once institutional capital is secured.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2019

com), based in Glendale, which has developed new heat energy storage technology aimed at use in the industrial sector. Parker told us about the origins of its technology, and how the company hopes to use its technology to make a big impact on fossil energy use at heavy industrial facilities. On the downside, it's very expensive.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Paul sat down with us last week to talk about industrial networks, network security, and why suddenly those systems--used for manufacturing, the power grid, oil and gas, and other key infrastructure--need their own security tools. Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve? Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

I am not a government contracting expert. In the parlance of government contracting, this approach is termed a “prime and sub-prime relationship.” The Downside Of Government Contracting. It is downright criminal to lose a hard-fought sale because of crony capitalism.

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Startup Outsource Development Software Review Sales 207

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► October (1) New Video!

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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. We''ve raised around $72 million now in equity capital. So, we got to know the healthcare industry.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Glendale-based Reveleer (www.reveleer.com) is a developer of cloud-based software used for managing medical data, and recently announced a Series C funding round from investors Boston Millenia Partners and Upfront Ventures. We're backed by Upfront Ventures, which is a well known venture capital firm here in SoCal.

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Artificial Inteligence SoCal Southern California Software 113

Frank Addante

DECEMBER 5, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► October (1) New Video!

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Rejecting the paint-by-numbers approach to corporate communications deployed by most marketing executives, Brad has embraced unconventional guerilla marketing tactics to help establish his venture capital firm, Foundry Group, as a thought leader in early-stage tech investing. companies should… focus on building amazing products.

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