Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2021

Upgrade to modern information technology tools. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change.

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Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 173

socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2010

Long Beach-based Molina Healthcare , a provider of health plans and managed care services, said today that it is buying the Health Information Management (HIM) business of Unisys Corporation , in a deal worth approximately $135M. Tags: acquisition merger information unisys healthcare molina.

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Long Beach Outsource Development Outsource Acquisition 154

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Solution development and delivery. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. Formalize the use of tools and information technology.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Have each develop a personal transformation plan with your support. Continuous innovation is a mindset that you cannot outsource, or bring in through acquisition or consultants. Focus on team member strengths and unique contributions, and show how your plan facilitates their progression and growth.

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Case Study Outsource Development Outsource Customer 117

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2008

According to iRise, General Motors is deploying its visual modeling technology as part of developing new IT systems at the company. iRise said that the win comes thanks to Capgemini, a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing services. Financial impact of the customer win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>

El Segundo 113

El Segundo Outsource Development Outsource Software 113

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2013

In other words, it’s a decision-making tool that gives you the financial information you need to take control of your business operations. Marketing is key in helping you to develop long-term, strategic plans that can stop your cash drain. Set Your Budgeting Goals. Create a Marketing Plan.

Outsource Development 91

Outsource Development Outsource Startup Marketing 91

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. We distill that information with very high accuracy.

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Santa Barbara High Tech Outsource Development Startup 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Solution development and delivery. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. Formalize the use of tools and information technology.

Outsource Development 99

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Leverage information technology. Use a simple accounting tool like QuickBooks, get away from co-mingled funds, and you have the first business process you need.

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Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2014

Outsourcing is just another extension of the virtual team concept to people you don’t even know. Team members develop an understanding about their mutual dependence to achieve objectives. An easy flow of information exists using various forms of technology. Working effectively with a virtual team of any sort has many challenges.

Startup 101

Startup Outsource Development Outsource Satisfaction 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Solution development and delivery. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. Formalize the use of tools and information technology.

Ideas 62

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Competition 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Upgrade to modern information technology tools. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change.

Demand 71

Demand Customer Custom Tips 71

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2015

Upgrade to modern information technology tools. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change.

Customer 97

Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Leverage information technology. Use a simple accounting tool like QuickBooks, get away from co-mingled funds, and you have the first business process you need.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Outsourcing is just another extension of the virtual team concept to people you don’t even know. Team members develop an understanding about their mutual dependence to achieve objectives. An easy flow of information exists using various forms of technology. Working effectively with a virtual team of any sort has many challenges.

Startup 98

Startup Outsource Development Outsource Satisfaction 98

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

We''re a one stop shop for clinical and financial management of their practice, including a cloud-based electronic health records solution, letting them manage all of their clinical information, and moving those paper forms to electronic form. Dan Rodrigues: It was a a really interesting transition I made.

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Startup El Segundo CTO Hire Outsource Development 160

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Upgrade to modern information technology tools. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change.

Demand 56

Demand Customer Custom Tips 56

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Leverage information technology. Use a simple accounting tool like QuickBooks, get away from co-mingled funds, and you have the first business process you need.

Startup 102

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2014

Upgrade to modern information technology tools. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change.

Customer 96

Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 96

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

Traditionally, these between a rock and hard place problems have been solved with a limited pool of expensive options – usually associated with long contracts and high billables for “MBA quality” work. What if you could combine the flexibility of outsourcing with the quality level of highly skilled strategists?

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review Outsource 105

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley? First Principles.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. My focus has been marketing strategy and product development.

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Los Angeles Product Angel Startup 179

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Leverage information technology. Use a simple accounting tool like QuickBooks, get away from co-mingled funds, and you have the first business process you need.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2015

There are various tech savvy groups of people that can assist businesses in their development, implementation and use of technology. It is not uncommon to outsource some of these responsibilities to companies that specialize in doing these things. Some people think that all of these people go by the same title, but this is not true.

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Web Cloud Computing Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development 40

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

One mastermind focuses on how to outsource development and programming. People who are on the call will be able to ask Liam Martin, co founder of Staff.com, direct questions about anything and everything outsourcing. The phone sessions will be held on March 5th and 6th. What made you choose the industry players you did?

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Mixergy Outsource Development Outsource Conference 70

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 ). Then he simply realized it was unlikely for a business information site like Tracked to become social.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

SXSWi has listed the following information on their site: If you or someone you know is doing amazing work with technology to help their community, nominate them for a chance to win a scholarship to attend SXSW Interactive. Design and Development. Design and Development. Design and Development. Design and Development.

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Entertainment Startup eBook Outsource Development 73

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. We found out that sites like Eat24 and Grubhub are portals.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Social Media Outsource Development 100

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast. The development community and web developers, who tend to be our customers, like that flexibility, and the quick time to market. The other thing that helps diffentiate us, is we help our customers with costs, save them money, and allow them to get to market faster, with scale.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 5, 2016

Selling new products, opening new markets outsourcing business functions and every other decision affects the bottom line. The model’s value is in quantitative values that let management make informed decisions. The success or failure of every business is determined by its management’s decisions. Measurement.

Software Review 40

Software Review Technical Review .Net Outsource Development 40

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. We're only using our money to pay developers. I was impressed by what he was working on.

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Startup OCTANE Outsource Development Google 140

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

When consumers expressed interest in a product, companies would buy their contact information to make outbound phone calls. Thta''s something we''ve done a great job at with Vantage Media, which has been facilitating the development of people and the company where people want to live. In the past, marketers were buying leads in bulk.

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Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

If you think about it today, everyone is selling through Amazon, but Amazon keeps all of that customer information. It was a logical system to start offering up cloud-based systems like those we had developed. The other thing I see, is trying to outsource all of this stuff your self. How did you get into this?

Startup 145

Startup Product Customer Custom 145

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’m sure it will be fun and informative. I installed Windows 3.1 THE FIVE C’S.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? This post is an accusation.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

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. “We are pointing toward distributing value better.

Resource 40

Resource Outsource Development Guide Research 40

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

On the day of Miigle’s public launch, we chatted about developing his team, lessons learned, and how World Cup soccer fits into his vision. For example, take someone who is developing a travel solution as a mobile application. Entrepreneurs who have a startup upload their company’s information and create a startup page.

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SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104