socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

Georg Richter: For the five years before I started the company in January of 2016, I was at Guthy Renker, which is one of the largest and biggest direct marketing companies in the world. I was there for five years, helping them to rebuild their technology from a legacy system, and use cloud-based technology. How did you get into this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2013

Every time I try outsourcing manufacturing, I get quality problems.” “If Investors want five-year projections, which is ridiculous considering all the unknowns.” “My Exceeding customer expectations is my competitive advantage.” “I “I can’t seem to find employees who are committed to my business.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

When I get funded,” the entrepreneur thinks, “I can build a prototype, hire a development team, go to market, scale more quickly, and beat my competition.” If you raise an angel round consisting of five investors who put in $100K each, that’s five people you have to answer to. All problems will go away.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2011

Every time I try outsourcing manufacturing, I get quality problems.” “If Investors want five-year projections, which is ridiculous considering all the unknowns.” “My Exceeding customer expectations is my competitive advantage.” “I “I can’t seem to find employees who are committed to my business.”

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

We can’t undo the last five years… but we can make smart, massive investments in the climate infrastructure of the future,” wrote Donnel Baird, the chief executive and founder of BlocPower. The Biden Harris Climate announcement is literally a plan to save the American economy and save the planet.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Will (many more) millions help you get five years into one?&#. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. The former was outsourced, the latter was our own team. You can’t get 5 years into one. That’s falling prey to the “ mythical man month &# line of thinking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2010

You need to be plugged in to be career competitive with hyper-networked peers, and keep ahead of competitors. Contractor, temp, or outsource worker off site. Hate to pick up the phone or find the person every time I needed something. My clients and customers use it, and I need to stay in sync.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2010

Every time I try outsourcing manufacturing, I get quality problems.” “If Investors want five-year projections, which is ridiculous considering all the unknowns.” “My Exceeding customer expectations is my competitive advantage.” “I “I can’t seem to find employees who are committed to my business.”

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? My next five posts will be focused on 5 tips that I put together for dealing with the tech resource challenge: 1. Outsourcing 1. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3. Scrappy versus Steady 2.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

Evaluate outsourcing as a quick solution to break the constraint. Smart entrepreneurs make these five steps an iterative process and a way of life, attacking one growth constraint after another. The organic solution is to hire more people, spend more money, and ramp up your focus.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The right way to position against competition - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , August 23, 2010 This is Part 4 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.?? There is no competition. So Alice, Mark and Nick are going to hire ten people over the next five (now four) weeks. Example: Netflix).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. What about outsourcing?

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