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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. Reaching a goal of “five 9s” uptime requires three strategies. This means that the network connections to enterprise sites increase in their importance.
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. Will (many more) millions help you get five years into one?&#. The former was outsourced, the latter was our own team. This is total bullshit.
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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.
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.
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.
socalTECH
JUNE 9, 2014
If you look at the numbers from Comscore, we are doing about half the number of uniques that Maker is doing, but we''re doing it with only five channels, versus their 50 thousands channels. When our Youtube views are driven up, that drives more licensing demand for the video, with other shows interested.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 11, 2010
Demands on your time. If you raise an angel round consisting of five investors who put in $100K each, that’s five people you have to answer to. Five phone calls every time things change direction, or something bad/good happens. Don’t ever take dumb money, even if you are starving. The worst investors are small investors.
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