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TaskUs Takes $250M From Blackstone

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Santa Monica-based business outsourcing service provider TaskUs , founded by Bryce Maddock and Jaspar Weir, said this morning that it has raised $250M in an investment round. The investment came from private equity investor Blackstone Group. According to TaskUs, the funding round values the company at $500M. READ MORE>>.

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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Social media facilitates marketing and sales.

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7 Modern Day Business Strategies For Long-Term Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

I continue to be amazed that more than a quarter of new businesses don’t even have a website , and many more don’t pay attention to social media, or monitor feedback on sites like Yelp. At minimum, that requires a modern website, and visibility on relevant social media sites, likely including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.

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5 Sources Of Ideas That Turn Into The Next Big Thing

Startup Professionals Musings

Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products. I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new social media site, or a new productivity tool. The impact of global instability. Truly “disruptive” technologies.

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8 Tactics For Every Entrepreneur To Manage Technology

Startup Professionals Musings

If your kids can use computers by age six, every entrepreneur ought to be able to stay current with the latest social media marketing and e-commerce technologies. Outsourcing to expert freelancers or business partners is often a better solution for startups than managing everyone into the inside team.

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White-label it: Make it ‘YOU’ inside.

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But, more often, this is just the virtualization of what we used to call outsourcing. In short, the underlying value of that company is the old-fashioned underlying value of outsourcing (if there was one): the outsourcer not only does it for you, the outsourcer shows you how to do it right, and does it at lower cost. .

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5 Generators Of Customer Pain Conducive To Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products. I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new social media site, or a new productivity tool. The impact of global instability. Truly “disruptive” technologies.

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