Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Good entrepreneurs are all about managing change, but too many forget that they have to change themselves as their dream evolves from a startup to a scalable business. You can’t demand total loyalty from all, so you have to learn to accept criticism without being defensive. Happy to work and live on your own terms. It’s a big change.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We caught up with Lee Essner , the President of Jukin Media, to learn more about how the company thinks it has figured out how to make a business round viral videos. Can you talk about those businesses? The nice thing about those two businesses, is they feed each other nicely. It''s much more about quality, than quantity.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. Talking about whether to raise more money or not, their VC allegedly said to them: “If you had more capital, could you get to the future faster?

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Jason Nazar

JULY 1, 2016

Add in public company demands, lawsuit targets, & millions of customers to continually satisfy, and you have to have great respect for those doing it well. There’s Not Enough Focus on the Product – New companies are obsessive about product-market fit, because it’s their lifeblood.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve? Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

However, every so often, you hear about a firm at that point, which is able to turn around, build a sustainable business, and is eventually sold for a positive return. That's the story at Altadena-based Unified Dispatch , which was recently sold to the On-Demand Division of Veolia. How did acquisition come about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I’ve extracted many of the following points about knowing yourself from a book aimed at women professionals, called “ Career GPS ”, by Ella L. Leadership isn’t about how big your role is, or how big you act. Startup businesses are very demanding. Edmondson Bell, Ph. Self-awareness is one cornerstone of effective leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

In my experience, there are good reasons for starting a business, and good ways to go about it in the new online world, but even entrepreneurs with good intentions often don’t have a clue on key principles to follow for this rapidly changing platform. Use the Internet to outsource staff. Generate revenue around the clock.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Fallacy: AdVentures tend to evolve once you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. I am differentiating here between outsourced services that execute rote, routine tasks and consultants hired to performed ad hoc, mission critical engagements. 3) Attempt To License An Idea. 8 ) Grant Exclusivity.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

In my experience, there are good reasons for starting a business, and good ways to go about it in the new online world, but even entrepreneurs with good intentions often don’t have a clue on key principles to follow for this rapidly changing platform. Use the Internet to outsource staff. Generate revenue around the clock.

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Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. Create a system of clear-cut rules about quorums, and trust your team. 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.

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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. How to Achieve 99.999% Uptime.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2012

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. Create a system of clear-cut rules about quorums, and trust your team. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

I’ve extracted many of the following points about knowing yourself from a new book aimed at women professionals, called “ Career GPS ”, by Ella L. Leadership isn’t about how big your role is, or how big you act. Startup businesses are very demanding. Edmondson Bell, Ph. Self-awareness is one cornerstone of effective leadership.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

The thing is – even if your services business is a smaller scale than this – you have complete control over the decisions about where to take the business. You end up needing to add staff and take on more risk without knowing what your future demand will be. There are a couple of ways to think about this growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Much of this depends on how “smart” the money is about what you are doing. Demands on your time. Remember “ The Social Network ” movie about Facebook? Don’t ever take dumb money, even if you are starving. Investors are a time suck, because they need to be handheld. The worst investors are small investors.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 19, 2015

Almost the instant the concept of the sharing economy was introduced, it has skyrocketed into hundreds of successful and established brands by offering everyone a chance to be their own boss, and others the ability to outsource needs saving time by providing convenience. Rustrum continues to experiment with sharing and shedding.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Outsourcing 1.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? A BIG THANK YOU.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? A BIG THANK YOU.

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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.

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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

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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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

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