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Innovative Services Are A Huge Boon For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, we all love disruptive new products, like the Pebble Smart Watch and Google Glass, but recent innovative services startups, including Uber for transportation and Airbnb for lodging, have grown much bigger and faster. Here is just a sampling to give you the idea: Software as a service (SaaS). Process outsourcing services.

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Interview with Elizabeth Cholawsky, HG Data

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That was in the support space, where we were doing outsourced technical services. Prior to that, for seven years I was at Citrix in Santa Barbara, at their SaaS division. I've been living in Santa Barbara since 1996, and over the course of my career I've gone back and forth to the Bay Area several times.

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Startup CTO or Developer

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Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. Of course, since you know those questions, you can just collect up the answers and provide them to your developers. What do we build in-house or outsource? What’s our purchase, licensing, SaaS strategy? Of course, it’s never complete. Probably not.

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Future of The Cloud is Bright | Just Ask the Market

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Hulme also argues that organizations will always need IT, business experts, security experts, and engagement managers to handle relationships with the growing number of third-party and outsourcing vendors cropping up around the cloud. “Of course, IT jobs within solution providers and at consultancies will remain. .

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

What do we build in-house or outsource? What’s our purchase, licensing, SaaS strategy? This can take the form of a local university, online courses, going through relevant books, etc. How will we address these without significant cost? How are we going to manage the product roadmap? When will key hires come on?

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