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Palomar Ventures Teams With Soros On Wireless Investment

socalTECH

According to ExteNet, Palomar, an existing investor in the firm, was part of a new round of equity financing led by SSP Offshore LLC, an affiliate of Soros Fund Management and SBA Communications Corporation, which also included Centennial Ventures, Columbia Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, and CenterPoint Ventures.

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SCribe Newsletter October 2008

Technology Council

Offshore Outsourcing is Dying…Long Live Hybrid Nearshore. 4 Rules For Email Design In [.] Here are quick links to the feature articles in this issue: Magnify360 Wins VentureNet Best Of Show 5 Mistakes To Avoid When Building Your Startup “Out Of The Box” PR Tactics.

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Teledyne Buys Instrumentation Firm

socalTECH

Teledyne said that Baton Rouge-based Odom has designs and manufactures equipment for port survey, dredging, offshore energy and other applications. Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies said today that it has acquired Odom Hydrographic Systems, a Louisiana-based firm developing hydrographic survey instrumentation.

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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

The founder had tried or considered: Web Search – not all that useful – more design firms that development firms LinkedIn – searched for people, but gave up pretty quickly as it felt like a needle in a haystack. I’ll leave that for another discussion as the inquiry that I keep getting is more about local talent than offshore talent.

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How to Design an Effective Bonus Plan

The Quigley Report

The next quarter, all of her bonus might be based on opening an offshore development center by a certain date. For instance, the VP of Engineering may have her bonus for Q2 based 50% on the delivery of a certain product and 50% on hiring objectives.

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Interview with Satish Varma, Clorder

socalTECH

We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. We thought we found a gap in the market where we could fit in, so we looked at a bunch of the services which were existing in the market, and we designed our own product offering, back in 2012. We started our services in August of 2012.

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To Outsource or Not to Outsource Software

Startup Professionals Musings

Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Tags: startup software outsource offshore business. Software services, on the other hand, involve the creation of software customized for a specific situation, with a relatively low level of leverage and reuse.