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TaskUs Boosts Executive Staff With Trio Of Hires, Now Has 5300 Employees

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Santa Monica-based TaskUs , the fast growing provider of outsourced customer experience and back end services for online companies, said it has hired three new executives on Thursday, to help it with its growth efforts. McLaughlin-Brooks was at YapStone, and also served at Parallels, Business Objects and Yahoo!

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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If you think of Pinterest, one of our customers, every time content is pinned or re-pinned, an email is generated to let users know that is happening. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 1.0: “The Bug Bite” - The Internet Needs a Card Catalogue (I guess that’s a search engine)

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? It was an Internet search engine and directory "dot-com" (competitor to Yahoo!, we didnt even know Yahoo! At Starting Point, 100% of the interaction with our users/customers was via email. … challenge: Competing with Yahoo! .

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Elements of Sustainable Companies

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? I guess this is how a world-class firm like Sequoia Capital finds and invests in world-class companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Rich Customers Target customers who will move fast and pay a premium for a unique offering. A BIG THANK YOU.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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With access to billions of mobile impressions and cutting-edge location technology we make sure that your message reaches customers ready to buy what you sell. ThinkNear helps you target mobile ads to consumers at precise locations. Tyler Bleszinski – Founder of SB Nation. Eric Jackson – Author of The PayPal Wars and CEO of CapLinked.