Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2021

As a backdrop, he defines the evolution already in progress from current Gen Y customers to a more demanding and less tolerant state (Gen D) that will make them even quicker and more technologically able to demonize and destroy your business, if it won’t meet their norms of interaction, personalization, and purpose.

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Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 173

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Los Angeles-based on-demand, dog walking marketplace Wag! Phoenix is a popular location for both in-house and outsourced customer support operations. According to Wag, it plans to hire agents and managers in Phoenix to support its customers, walkers, and dog sitters. READ MORE>>.

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Outsource Los Angeles Customer Custom 113

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2015

Santa Monica-based TaskUs , the startup led by Bryce Maddock which is the secret weapon behind the rising tide of on-demand and Internet startups, has raised $15M in a funding round, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Phillipnes-based private equity investor Navegar.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2019

Former President of BMW manufacturing, Clemens Schmitz-Justen also joined the company as its head of manufacturing — overseeing the contract manufacturing strategy, which will see the company outsource production of vehicles in the U.S. Porsche launches on-demand subscription for its sports cars and SUVs.

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Outsource Development Startup Outsource San Diego 191

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 20, 2017

AITP – Los Angeles Presents: A panel of IT Hiring Professionals will discuss trends they see, and how these affect current and future demand for jobs in the marketplace. Date: 1/26/2017 Location: Courtyard by Marriott – LA Westside, 6333 Bristol Parkway, Culver City 90230.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

As a backdrop, he defines the evolution already in progress from current Gen Y customers to a more demanding and less tolerant state (Gen D) that will make them even quicker and more technologically able to demonize and destroy your business, if it won’t meet their norms of interaction, personalization, and purpose.

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Demand Customer Custom Tips 71

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

As a backdrop, he defines the evolution already in progress from current Gen Y customers to a more demanding and less tolerant state (Gen D) that will make them even quicker and more technologically able to demonize and destroy your business, if it won’t meet their norms of interaction, personalization, and purpose.

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Demand Customer Custom Tips 56

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

That's the story at Altadena-based Unified Dispatch , which was recently sold to the On-Demand Division of Veolia. Back in 2003 and 2004, we were focused on the international market, and started outsourcing to India and the Philippines for call center services. The firm's CEO, Dan Tamkin , tells us the story.

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Outsource Development Startup Outsource Altadena 190

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

We are seeing SaaS companies more and more are competing against other SaaS companies and experiencing more churn, price resistance and customer demand for customization. This is the natural maturation in these segments.

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Capital Southern California SaaS SoCal 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2012

Startup businesses are very demanding. When you understand how you work most effectively, you will do a better job of delegation, use of outsourcing, and selection of partners and employees. The current economic recovery demands a transformation of business processes and cultures, beginning at the startup level.

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Entrepreneur Demand Outsource Satisfaction 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2015

As a backdrop, he defines the evolution already in progress from current Gen Y customers to a more demanding and less tolerant state (Gen D) that will make them even quicker and more technologically able to demonize and destroy your business, if it won’t meet their norms of interaction, personalization, and purpose.

Customer 97

Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2014

As a backdrop, he defines the evolution already in progress from current Gen Y customers to a more demanding and less tolerant state (Gen D) that will make them even quicker and more technologically able to demonize and destroy your business, if it won’t meet their norms of interaction, personalization, and purpose.

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Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 96

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Use the Internet to outsource staff. With a stable base of subscribers, this can mean a continuing revenue stream from newsletters, support, or advice on demand. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution.

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Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 124

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Startup businesses are very demanding. When you understand how you work most effectively, you will do a better job of delegation, use of outsourcing, and selection of partners and employees. The recent economic disaster demands a transformation of business processes and cultures, beginning at the startup level.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Demand Outsource Satisfaction 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Large corporations no longer create jobs in their home location. Entrepreneurs growing companies create more value and more jobs.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Offshore 126

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

When our Youtube views are driven up, that drives more licensing demand for the video, with other shows interested. That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Services for services sake - The type of business that is generally shunned in Silicon Valley is the “pure services&# business like consulting, system integration, value-added resellers (VARs), customer support businesses, outsourcing companies, etc. I’m not saying the scaling a services business is easy – it’s not.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Use the Internet to outsource staff. With a stable base of subscribers, this can mean a continuing revenue stream from newsletters, support, or advice on demand. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution.

Startup 107

Startup Technical Review Case Study Software Review 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Use the Internet to outsource staff. With a stable base of subscribers, this can mean a continuing revenue stream from newsletters, support, or advice on demand. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Case Study 105

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

What if you could combine the flexibility of outsourcing with the quality level of highly skilled strategists? We discuss everything from outsourcing, MBA’s, and business, to the lessons learned in building their marketplace for connecting business professionals with the companies who need them. Introducing SkillBridge.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review Outsource 105

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

He references CIO Bernard Golden’s argument, made in The IT Jobs Cloud Computing Will Create , that while some roles may disappear altogether, others will remain, but in much less demand. For instance, he says, it’s probably a safe prediction that lower-level, on-premise IT support roles will still exist, but in fewer numbers.

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Cloud Computing Marketing CIO Organization 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

Use the Internet to outsource staff. With a stable base of subscribers, this can mean a continuing revenue stream from newsletters, support, or advice on demand. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution.

Technical Review 99

Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Large corporations no longer create jobs in their home location. Entrepreneurs growing companies create more value and more jobs.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Offshore Startup Technical Review 105

Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

One major challenge for an enterprise is finding a way to upgrade its infrastructure efficiently to quickly ramp up to meet new network demands. Network scaling issues can also happen in the reverse situation—where an enterprise needs to decrease its network capacity after a seasonal demand goes away to save costs.

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Networking Services Design Demand 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Use the Internet to outsource staff. With a stable base of subscribers, this can mean a continuing revenue stream from newsletters, support, or advice on demand. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 97

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. There will be a lot of demands on your time as an entrepreneur, and you can’t be in all places at once. There is no substitute for diving into the key details of a new startup. These executives won’t survive long in a startup environment.

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Startup Entrepreneur Template Mentor 103

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Large corporations no longer create jobs in their home location. Entrepreneurs growing companies create more value and more jobs.

Startup 102

Startup Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review 102

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2012

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. There will be a lot of demands on your time as an entrepreneur, and you can’t be in all places at once. There is no substitute for diving into the key details of a new startup. These executives won’t survive long in a startup environment.

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Entrepreneur Startup Template Mentor 94

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Demands on your time. Moral: Before you decide that it’s absolutely necessary to take outside investment, explore all the possible ways you can partner, outsource, affiliate, collaborate, or…heaven forbid, get customers. Much of this depends on how “smart” the money is about what you are doing. The worst investors are small investors.

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Outsource Development High Tech Outsource Startup 93

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Large corporations no longer create jobs in their home location. Entrepreneurs growing companies create more value and more jobs.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review Outsource 87

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

Meeting the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them. Young entrepreneurs get to “touch and feel” the results, and experiment to their heart’s content. These ideas can grow quickly into real products.

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Ideas Outsource Development Startup Education 61

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

You can’t demand total loyalty from all, so you have to learn to accept criticism without being defensive. As an executive, the business will demand your attention on a 24-hour basis and you must interact with employees and customers every day to keep the momentum going. Happy to work and live on your own terms. It’s a big change.

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Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Many aspiring entrepreneurs jump ship from corporate environments, complaining that they want to be their own boss, only to find that investors are more demanding bosses than the ones they left. Entrepreneurs who don’t have someone else’s cash for outsourcing come up with the more innovative and creative approaches to get things done.

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Entrepreneur Startup Equity Outsource Development 67

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Startup businesses are very demanding. When you understand how you work most effectively, you will do a better job of delegation, use of outsourcing, and selection of partners and employees. The recent economic crisis demands a transformation of business processes and cultures, beginning at the startup level.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Demand Outsource Satisfaction 48

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Large corporations no longer create jobs in their home location. Entrepreneurs growing companies create more value and more jobs.

Offshore 55

Offshore Technical Review Entrepreneur Outsource 55

Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

As enterprises outsource more of the business operations to hosted platforms, more emphasis needs to be placed on ensuring mission-critical applications are always accessible. As the use of cloud environments increases, the challenges of managing a high-performance network become more demanding.

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Networking Southern California Outsource Development Startup 45