Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. The sales professional.

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Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 123

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. This means that the network connections to enterprise sites increase in their importance. Improve Network Monitoring through IoT. Is it self-provided?

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Networking Southern California Outsource Development Startup 45

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

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. The sales professional.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 123

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

Of course, it helps to pick a business model that minimizes these costs, such as e-commerce to minimize initial staff and facilities, or professional services, where you are the initial product. Start networking for funding before the crisis. Build your plan around resources you know. Everyone wins with this approach.

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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? My last company was a global communications company with network points of presence around the world. Grant Kirkwood: I''ve been in infrastructure for a long time.

Cloud Computing 217

Cloud Computing Outsource Development Outsource Startup 217

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast. There's complexity in being a CDN.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Santa Monica-based Happy Returns , which provides a network of in-person return locations for online retailers, is expanding its menu of offerings for those retailers, through a new product called "Full Stack Returns". Pricing on the new offering was not announced by the company, which is venture backed by U.S.

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Services Santa Monica Pricing Networking 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Don’t assume you can outsource the implementation decisions. Build your own personal brand image through blogging, industry forums, and networking. Expand your own learning and knowledge by helping others. You need someone you can trust and learn from every day, with equal “skin in the game.”

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Ideas Writing Examples Outsource 126

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Of course, I immediately gave him the whole spiel on Visible Networking and Steve was totally game to make our networking visible. I’m currently working with several startups, helping them launch new web businesses. And do you know anyone that I should speak with who might be able to help me find more work?

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Los Angeles Product Angel Startup 179

Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Local network operations center (NOC). Having network operations located physically closer to your business center means that your area of concern for the physical security of the network is much tighter. A smaller provider can be more flexible, helping you scale your network up and down as the need arises.

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Services Southern California Alhambra Technical Review 64

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. The sales professional.

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Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 105

Tech Coast Venture Network

MAY 15, 2011

April 25, 2011, Irvine, Calif — Tech Coast Venture Network (www.tcvn.org) is hosting the OC Technology Influencer Mixer & Summit 2011, an historic two-day event with partners CompTIA, the world’s largest technology association, the Technology Leadership Political Action Committee and Ingram Micro. said Kevin McDonald, President of TCVN.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We then help push those videos through social media channels, and help them go viral. That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team. Those two pieces helped feed each other. more) READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. The sales professional.

Technical Advisors 57

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. The sales professional.

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Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2014

Rogers talks about this phenomenon in his book, “ The Network is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age ,” and suggests some strategies to improve your perceived engagement level. Provide content and interaction that helps solve a problem or answers a critical information need for your audience.

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Customer Custom Startup Content 99

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Rogers talks about this phenomenon in his book, The Network is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age , and suggests some strategies to improve your perceived engagement level. Provide content and interaction that helps solve a problem or answers a critical information need for your audience.

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Entrepreneur Startup Content Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2015

Program and account managers are helpful especially if more than one project is open. Network engineers and programmers are essential in designing platforms and up-keeping them. Security experts and other individuals might be helpful in creating and fixing network performance monitoring software.

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Web Cloud Computing Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development 40

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners. New products emerge, as diverse as networked-art installations, Internet-of-Things innovations, and many other hybrid software-hardware solutions. With the new rapid prototyping tools, products can be physically built for analysis, rather than just conceptualized.

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Ideas Outsource Development Startup Education 61

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2016

IT professionals are now shouldering the responsibility of setting up system alerts for their networks that help to guard against system compromise. The time when simply setting up a firewall was sufficient to protect a network as passed, and the need for a new approach to network computing has presented itself.

Cloud Computing 40

Cloud Computing Design Tool Outsource 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Santa Monica-based Happy Returns (www.happyreturns.com) is solving that issue, with a network of "return bars" it has opened in partnership with physical retailers. We do that through a network of physical locations, which we call Return Bars, all around the country. Returns by mail are really inefficient.

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Training Customer Custom Software Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process. Manage human resources. Customer service and support.

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Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I programed macros to help my mom with her Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets for work. I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system. on all the computers and established a network using Novell. I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD).

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

Here are the 4 that need to be part of your network: Legal Services. Make sure you have a lawyer to help draft your contracts and guide you’re communicating policies and procedures. I always recommend that early-stage startup founders outsource non-critical functions and take on part-time contractors for as long as possible.

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Startup Outsource Development IP Outsource 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

TechZulu is helping the Southern California tech community out by listing all the great panels. Scaling thru Outsourcing. Merge Offline/Online Networks for Startup Success. Give them a quick look over and the ones you believe would be the best to see give them a vote. Funding: The New Indie: BONA FIDE film.

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Southern California SoCal Guide Mixergy 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

But recently I was asked about success factors for services startups, and I quickly realized that there is very little published to help the thousands of startups that fall in this category. Networking and relationships. Networking is the way to stay current yourself and nurture those relationships.

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Satisfaction Patents Outsource Development Services 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

That means forget using interns or outsourcing this function. Before social networking, an unhappy customer might tell three people. As a startup, you can’t be everywhere all of the time, so it helps to tell people through traditional channels, in a positive way, the best ways to find you. You need insider “deciders” here.

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Social Media Customer Custom Media 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2011

Rogers talks about this phenomenon in his book, The Network is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age , and suggests some strategies to improve your perceived engagement level. Provide content and interaction that helps solve a problem or answers a critical information need for your audience.

Media 91

Media Startup Company Companies 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002. It doesn’t matter how dedicated and capable you are, there are only so many hours in a day, and as your business scales, you need to count on others for help. It’s a big change.

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Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process. Manage human resources. Customer service and support.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2012

That means forget using interns or outsourcing this function. Before social networking, an unhappy customer might tell three people. As a startup, you can’t be everywhere all of the time, so it helps to tell people through traditional channels, in a positive way, the best ways to find you. You need insider “deciders” here.

Social Media 91

Social Media Customer Custom Media 91

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.

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Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

They’re essential in helping us get our jobs done because they specialize in something we do not. They outsource the critical negotiations and “trust their advisors to handle the details.&# You can’t outsource this to a recruiter. Middle Men. Middle People? They exist in all forms of work and life. Recruiters.

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Venture Capital Pricing Startup Outsource 319

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

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. Instead, we build a very good product, get organic traffic, and those networks pay well. If users are coming to you directly, that''s better.

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Google Sites Startup Web 236

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process. Manage human resources. Customer service and support.

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Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102