Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2011

Taskrabbit aims to help “individuals and small businesses in a community outsource their tasks and deliveries.&#. You will then hear from a TaskRabbit who can help. While running typical errands are the most popular, TaskRabbit has runners available for coding, dog walking, moving help, even IKEA furniture assembly.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2015

Los Angeles-based commercial real estate services and investor CBRE said this morning that it has acquired Environmental Systems, Inc. CBRE said that ESI provides managed services to help commercial property owners to remotely monitor and analyze energy usage in their buildings. ESI was based in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Los Angeles-baesd Onestop Internet , which provides outsourced fulfillment and technology for brands and their e-commerce efforts, said Wednesday that it has named Denise Wallen-Grant as its new Vice President of Planning, Merchandising, and Allocation. She will be based in New York. READ MORE>>.

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Alon Schwartz

MAY 20, 2009

This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be on “Navigating the Challenges of Effective Outsourcing”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation discussing topics such as: Outsourcing best practices. Do’s and don’ts of outsourcing. Top mistakes people do when outsourcing. What can and should you outsource?

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Outsource Startup Santa Monica Social Media 75

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2012

Los Angeles-based expense management software and services developer ExpenseCloud , which was founded by Eric Sikola and Dan Fritcher, has been acquired by human resources provider Trinet , according to reports today. TriNet is a provider of outsource human resources services. Disclaimer: TriNet is a sponsor of socalTECH).

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2012

In the mean time, if you need some extra help, get some contractors to test out specific things. In other words, they come in asking for help with sourcing and hiring. They most often really just need either a Part-Time CTO or Technology Advisor , and then some combination of hiring and/or outsourcing (on-shore or off-shore).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Los Angeles has been in the midst of a technology boom over the last few years, with many of high profile startups growing in the area. With globalization, and the rise of technology, we believed that you were going to see more and more individuals looking to outsource tasks. READ MORE>>.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 19, 2009

This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be on “Outsourcing Web Development & Businesses”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation revealing the best practices and methodologies for building your web-based company through outsourcing. These events are put on in conjunction with our friends at DealMaker Media.

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Outsource Development Web Development Outsource Web 46

Alon Schwartz

MAY 20, 2009

This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be on “Navigating the Challenges of Effective Outsourcing”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation discussing topics such as: Outsourcing best practices. Do’s and don’ts of outsourcing. Top mistakes people do when outsourcing. What can and should you outsource?

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Outsource Startup Santa Monica Social Media 45

socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2010

Los Angeles-based CyberDefender , a provider of PC security and antivirus software, announced today that it has turned to on-demand billing provider Vindicia. The firm said the move will help mitigate accidental lapses and gaps between expiration and renewal of subscriptions to its service. READ MORE>>.

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Outsource Demand Los Angeles Software 140

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Los Angeles-based The/Studio , a startup offering up custom manufacturing of products through a worldwide network of apparel manufacturers, accessory makers, textile manufacturers, and many others, has raised $11M in a funding round. The company says it has offices in China, Romania, Philippines, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

This is important whether you are outsourcing or building it in-house. If you are outsourcing, then this person will also be protecting you from issues like being able to access the source code and making sure can bring it in-house at a later time. Get an advisor to help supplement where there are gaps.

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Technical Advisors CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 332

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

Ahead of the conference, we sat down and spoke with Kevin Anderson , co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), a rapidly growing developer of point-of-sale software, on the topic of customer service. Lots of startups talk about trying to outsource all their customer support. Kevin Anderson.

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Customer Custom Services Conference 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Despite the excitement and lure of startups to those in the tech industry, not everyone wants to join a startup after college--according to Mike Gammarino , who is helping to organize a new effort here to recruit students to startups. We'll be recruiting startups around Los Angeles, and starting events in the fall.

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Startup Technical Review Outsource Yahoo 206

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

So, how do you help ease enterprise customers into the cloud--or at least, help them use cloud technology to help them with their business goals? Companies were saying--we want to outsource these kinds of things, because they''re not our core competency. That''s the kind of decisions we are seeing every day.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Most relevant to startups is the push to fund initiatives and technologies that can help prevent or protect against extreme wildfires; rising sea levels and hurricanes; new agriculture resource management; and “climate-smart” technologies. Wander is one-such service providing high speed wireless internet in Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

SYNCFAB originally started in 2013 as 3D Lab Works to research the advantages of 3D printing and compare it to traditional manufacturing and in turn also help revive the US manufacturing industry. Los Angeles has been the hotbed of creative innovations in recent years.

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Design Platform Patents Outsource Development 84

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media (www.jukinmedia.com) thinks it has figured that out, and instead of trying to create viral videos, has been buying up the rights to those videos--before they really go viral--to create not just a one-hit, viral video wonder, but a sustainable business. Those two pieces helped feed each other.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Matt Lucido wanted to help with everyone’s daily life by creating a service app called Porter. Your chores can be outsourced through Porter. That’s the only thing that is outsourced. Over the last two months, the other three that were helping me build Porter, got even more passionate about working full-time.

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Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. We were looking to help deal with that issue, and also protect people from the bad unsubscribes.

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Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Without our headquarters in Los Angeles, Guatemala would have been impossible, because it''s super easy to get to Guatemala from Los Angeles. How do you take what has been a healthy business--but which has stalled out in growth--and put it back onto the growth curve? Why is LA key to that?

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Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Back in 2003 and 2004, we were focused on the international market, and started outsourcing to India and the Philippines for call center services. They found that there was a need to have technology like ours in the market, to help them win more contracts. The original company found that getting IVR deployed was actually very hard.

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Outsource Development Startup Outsource Altadena 190

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

That one thing, in the case of Los Angeles-based FamousBirthdays.com , is creating an online resource all about--you guessed it--famous birthdays. We work with Google to help monetize our traffic, and we''re also working with a variety of other networks. We never have to worry about monetization, and outsource that to Google.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We could provide a steady stream of Internet shoppers at our Return Bar, and use that foot traffic to build out our network, and help anyone operating a typical retail store with providing foot traffic. Today, we help enable returns in-person, but we also provide software for retailers that want to outsource their return portal.

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Training Customer Custom Software Review 100

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What do we build in-house or outsource? Unlike some larger, more mature organizations, most startups don't spend much time or effort helping grow their employees beyond the immediate needs of the startup. Here in Los Angeles, it's the LA CTO Forum - a private, invite only group of 250+. When will key hires come on?

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? We are going to target the publishers, arm them with the smartest, most innovative technology and help them work more efficiently with all of the advertising networks and advertisers that are available to them today. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary!

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Chicago, New York, Miami, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc.) aggressive) are very different than people from Los Angeles (i.e. I helped the company’s Board to clear the company from the mess and cooperated with the SEC.

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Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

This is a topic that comes up often in Los Angeles because many CEOs are tempted to hire their tech teams in the Bay Area. In a perfect world they’d be in your home office but this is one area where I feel remote tools can help bridge gaps. What about outsourcing? I’m against it in almost all situations.

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Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335