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Interview with Mike Gammarino, Students4Startups

socalTECH

Mike Gammarino: The approach we are going to take, is we've been working with schools here so far, USC, UCLA, and Caltech--where we want to go to career fairs, hold private events, and start interacting and building relationships with professors, career centers, students, and so forth. It's not for everybody, of course.

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Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – Steve Gilison

SoCal CTO

Of course, I immediately gave him the whole spiel on Visible Networking and Steve was totally game to make our networking visible. 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. I can see that.

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Overcoming the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Xconomy

— Security teams need immediate help: The average organization needs to process more than 200,000 pieces of security event data per day. Of course, any approach for solving the skills gap will evolve over time. Third-party resources provide help in two ways: training and outsourcing. Have a plan that expects to change.

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Entrepreneurs Challenge The Gartner Hype Cycle

Startup Professionals Musings

The first phase of a hype cycle is the technology trigger or breakthrough, product launch or other event that generates significant press and interest. New this year are application services and outsourcing, cloud application infrastructure services, cloud security, privacy and smart cities. Peak of inflated expectations.

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Increasing Profit Margins By Decreasing Inefficiency

Tech Zulu Event

Selling new products, opening new markets outsourcing business functions and every other decision affects the bottom line. It is essential to establish control over the process to be certain that it follows the model’s designed course. However, process optimums change with new events. Execution and Control.

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ConTraps Part III – Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid At All Costs

InfoChachkie

Avoid this potential conflict by reserving the right to terminate regional distribution agreements in the event that you subsequently enter into a pan-country distribution agreement. A more complicated negotiating point involves IP that is created in the course of the parties’ collaboration.

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

Tech Zulu Event

That is, of course, as long as what you are selling is the absolute best in your market.) As a last resort I outsourced and actually hired someone in India to remotely log into my computer during the night and correct all the errors from the scanned cards, which my in house team had processed earlier in the day. Blogs and Forums.