Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Email updates frequently.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 22, 2010

I often get asked for advice on Business Development. Get Warm Introductions – Typically 1 out of 10 people will email or call you back from a cold outreach. Putting pressure on them with follow up emails and calls, & being politely persistent will make sure that they pay attention. 10 Tips for Better BD.

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Berkonomics

JULY 10, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] The second story involves a founder who is using outsourced development, support, outsourced customer relations and more.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 3, 2013

We immediately recall the razor and blade analogy to illustrate the point when planning product development and release. Email readers, continue here.] Think of the portion of fixed overhead covered by recurring revenues. If you have not spent considerable time refining a strategy to include recurring revenues, do so now.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Newport Beach-based Sendio , a developer of appliances for reducing spam, has expanded into the software-as-a-service business, saying today that it has launched a new, hosted online service. Tags: sendio saas software email spam filtering appliance. The new service is being delivered from a data center in Orange County. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In his early career he realized the importance of email lists. He would do anything he could to capture people’s email addresses because he knew that they served as a valuable tool for future marketing purposes. His email list became his power. He would occasionally give away free music in exchange for email addresses.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] The second story involves the same founder. This one is using outsourced development, support, outsourced customer relations and more. The total capital raise was under $600,000, and the founder retains majority control of his baby through this and even one optional future round.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Ben Satterfield is the co-founder of TestFlight, an immensely popular piece of software for iOS (and now Android) which lets developers distribute beta copies of their apps to their users. TestFlight recently joined forces with Burstly (www.burstly.com) to create a suite of apps for mobile developers and publishers. What is Burstly?

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Berkonomics

MAY 1, 2014

In return, I said, I would give them more time than originally contracted for, and certainly would treat the relationship as special from that moment on. I sometimes counsel CEOs to consider consulting to their prospective customers or in their industry while they are simultaneously developing their product for market.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Solution – Identify the competencies that are critical to your startup's success and develop them internally. For instance, technology startups should maintain key development resources in-house, rather than relying exclusively on third-party, contract labor. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 30, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : TestFlight helps developers build better apps. We developed it for ourselves. TestFlight does simple, elegant, over the air distribution of apps that are in development and haven’t been made available in the App Store yet. In the development world, it is always about patterns. That’s our goal.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Email readers, continue here…]. Contract for service : An independent contractor should work under a written contract with the company, defining the end result expected, time to achieve, lump sum or unit cost, ownership of intellectual property created and more. Here are the ten IRS tests. This one is tricky.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

Many of you will know that Twitter unexpectedly cancelled it’s contract to allow DataSift to resell Twitter data to 3rd parties. My inbox was filled yesterday with emails with a mixture of consternation and anger from some customers who are being asked to migrate directly to Twitter and who don’t want to.

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Inverted Software

JUNE 15, 2018

At Inverted Software we often help our clients manage offshore and onshore development teams. Our proprietary processes and unique experience helps us evaluate and correct software development practices that have proven inefficient and instill practices that insure productivity and success. Developers love to experiment.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

Email readers, continue here.] Third: Management risk. A third demonstration of overcoming market risk is by holding controlled focus groups and gathering information from unbiased potential customers supporting the acceptance of the product or service. And fifth: Competitive risk.

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socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2009

Irvine-based Sendio , a developer of e-mail security appliances, said Monday that the firm has partnered with TKC Integration Serviecs, LLC (TKCIS), a contractor that serves the federal government. TKC Integration Services, LLC is a SEWP & GSA contract holder. Tags: sendio email security appliance government contractor.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Juno provided a free email service. Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2014

Outsourcing can be an extremely cost-effective solution here. Not only will you avoid adding to overhead costs at this early stage, but you’ll save management time — and free yourself to focus on developing your business. At a minimum, you should engage a lawyer to draft and/or review every contract you enter into.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 29, 2012

Once the tour concluded, the group returned to Ron’s office where he notified them that he would initially sign them to a development deal. He made it clear that this approach would allow the band to re-cut a few of their demos, which he would use to persuade the label to sign the band to a full-fledged recording contract.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. They have developers or friends help code their software without having legal agreements in place. Not worth it. Make sure you own your IP.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is defined as the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time – time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working. Email readers, continue here.]

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If you’re at a large corporation, you have the ability to give a startup the first contract they need to break out from the crowd or at least give them their first pilot. years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. years where I developed skills building distributed systems over networks.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Brad proudly described how the company successfully used thought leadership marketing to seed a marketplace in which companies can outsource their SEO campaigns to a legion of independent, third-party “optimizers.” Instead, follow Brad’s lead and base your company’s marketing tactics on your company’s authentic personality. Share and Enjoy.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 24, 2020

In return, I said, I would give them more time than originally contracted for, and certainly would treat the relationship as special from that moment on. I sometimes counsel CEOs to consider consulting to their prospective customers or in their industry while they are simultaneously developing their product for market.

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Tech.Co

MAY 16, 2024

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Email readers, continue here.] A wise board and management would take their own hint and strengthen that core, whether it is your development team, your geographic dominance or other trait. And strengthen that at the expense of other areas of your enterprise which may easily be outsourced or reduced in scope.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. I installed Windows 3.1 on all the computers and established a network using Novell. THE FIVE C’S.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

And since attorneys are paid to protect, often they will give a litany of warnings about what could go wrong when accepting a contract clause that they have been trained to challenge. The attorney held fast defending every challenge, stating that “these terms are standard for our client and cannot be changed.”

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 9, 2010

And since attorneys are paid to protect, often they will give a litany of warnings about what could go wrong when accepting a contract clause they have been trained to challenge. Email readers continue here.] The attorney held fast at every challenge, stating that “these terms are standard for our client and cannot be changed.”

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2010

eSolar, the solar thermal utility plant developer started by Idealab's Bill Gross, has a sizeable chunk of capital and notable support of Google and others, not to mention a number of contracts with utilities. Let us know in comments or email!). Backers: Matrix Partners, General Atlantic. . eSolar vs. BrightSource Energy.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2014

The company--which originally started in Austria--set up shop here two years ago to further expand its footprint in the US, and most recently hired away the entire Los Angeles marketing team of crosstown CRM software developer Nimble. Tell us about Pipeliner CRM? Nikolaus Kimla: I moved here two years ago, from Austria-Vienna.

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Berkonomics

MAY 20, 2021

Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time – time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working. The relationship between time and money. An easy way to fall into time bankruptcy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. Amazon allowed 22-year-old tech developers to launch companies without even raising capital. At least in the consumer & business web.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

People aren't having to be sucked into a two year contract, so they're more willing to convert in our model, versus the incumbents out there. But, the other 80 percent of users, who are using email and web surfing, our entry level will be around $10 a month. Freemium creates a better conversion rate. What kind of coverage do you have?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). It took 3-4 months into the development of the product for Hashable to realize that it is a mobile first, web second service.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

For our startup interview this morning, we caught up with Satish Varma , co-founder of Torrance-based Clorder (www.clorder.com), which is developing restaurant ordering software. We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. One, is pay-for-performance, which is the transactional model.

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