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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. With a little help from a friend, you can handle expenses, revenue, and payroll, with QuickBooks or a similar package. Maybe you should start with an online e-commerce site, based on your favorite hobby expertise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In the interests of helping you work smarter and last longer, I would like to offer my top ten list of key resource drains to avoid in early businesses and startups, based on my years of advising entrepreneurs and my own business experience: Expanding your product line too quickly for scaling. Outsourcing services that could be done in-house.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

On the business side, I am adapting here his seven success principles, too often overlooked by people who leap before they look: Find a niche to help real people. Nice to have” sites like Facebook and Twitter look attractive, but they are much higher risk, and a thousand fail for every one that succeeds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. This model facilitates donations to charities and creative projects, and has been around for a long time via sites such as GoFundMe. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co Startup equity model.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

However, one of the biggest beneficiaries of that boom-- TaskUs (www.taskus.com) has been far lower profile--but has grown from only five employees three years ago, to over a thousand employees today who are helping behind the scenes to power those startups. angeles startup taskus outsourcing phillippines growth bryce maddock entrepreneur'

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Here are six results that you can achieve by building a prototype, which are really the reasons that investors and partners will give you a whole new level of credibility as they evaluate your startup for potential funding: Something you can touch and feel helps validate opportunity.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Agoura Hills-based inQ, a provider of outsourced web sales services, has renamed itself TouchCommerce, the firm said today. inQ offers web chat services for e-commerce web sites, which helps to close online sales and guide users to select and find products. inQ did not detail reasons for the name change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

On the business side, I am adapting here his seven success principles, too often overlooked by people who leap before they look: Find a niche to help real people. Nice to have” sites like Facebook and Twitter look attractive, but they are much higher risk, and a thousand fail for every one that succeeds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

To help you focus, I have prioritized the following list of success principles, too often overlooked by otherwise smart people, blinded by dollar signs, who jump in before they consider the consequences and alternatives: Find a unique niche you love which adds real value. Take advantage of low-cost modern tools and automation.

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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? 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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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2009

Kline is founder of the venture capital firm, and also sites on the baords of NewBridge College, Rayne Corporation, and Cyalume Technologies. CaseStack helps manufacturers, retailers, and distributors to outsource and manage their supply chain and logistics operations. Kline, of Kline Hawkes & Co., to its board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Here are six results that you can achieve by building a prototype, which are really the reasons that investors and partners will give you a whole new level of credibility as they evaluate your startup for potential funding: Something you can touch and feel helps validate opportunity.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 124

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

On the business side, I am adapting here his seven success principles, too often overlooked by people who leap before they look: Find a niche to help real people. Nice to have” sites like Facebook and Twitter look attractive, but they are much higher risk, and a thousand fail for every one that succeeds.

Startup 107

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. This model facilitates donations to charities and creative projects, and has been around for a long time via sites such as Rockethub. Other popular funding assistance sites for startups, including StartupAmerica and Startups.co

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. This is a variation on the two previous ones, where investors get the satisfaction of helping, and immediately get a pre-determined reward or perk of value, such as a t-shirt, or other recognition, but no equity or finished product. Good-cause crowd funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. This is a variation on the two previous ones, where investors get the satisfaction of helping, and immediately get a pre-determined reward or perk of value, such as a t-shirt, or other recognition, but no equity or finished product. Proceed at your own peril.

Funding 96

Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. With a little help from a friend, you can handle expenses, revenue, and payroll, with QuickBooks or a similar package. Maybe you should start with an online e-commerce site, based on your favorite hobby expertise.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Commerce 104

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. Does that mean job listings on your site, or more?

Startup 206

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

On the business side, I am adapting here his seven success principles, too often overlooked by people who leap before they look: Find a niche to help real people. Nice to have” sites like Facebook and Twitter look attractive, but they are much higher risk, and a thousand fail for every one that succeeds.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Case Study 105

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

We also have a cloud-baesd, billing and practice management solutions, which enables them to manage all of their internal financial processes, and we also have solutions for billing and cloud-based outsourcing of back office tasks. We were small, and had about ten engineers, providing customer solutions for businesses in Southern California.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

On the business side, I am adapting here his seven success principles, too often overlooked by people who leap before they look: Find a niche to help real people. Nice to have” sites like Facebook and Twitter look attractive, but they are much higher risk, and a thousand fail for every one that succeeds.

Technical Review 99

Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

We had the chance to talk with co-founder John Tomich about the funding and the firm, which operates e-commerce sites for fashion brands and others. The company was incorporated in January of 2004, and we provide outsource e-commerce services to organizations, such as brands and retailers. Who knew then that things would get so shaky.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The team at Recycled Bride knows weddings are expensive, time-consuming to plan, and that’s the reason they want to make it easy to source great deals on pricey wedding items, and help you recover some of the money spent. Sellers list their items on the site, using a simple 60-second listing process. How does Recycle Bride work?

Design 84

Design Social Media Sales Sites 84

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

Here are six results that you can achieve by building a prototype, which are really the reasons that investors and partners will give you a whole new level of credibility as they evaluate your startup for potential funding: Something you can touch and feel helps validate opportunity.

Ideas 107

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Tool 107

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

We do have to operate within things like headcount maximums, and we do have some components of budget and cost limits, but inside those requirements we have been able to figure out ways to add staffing, adding product managers, finding outsourcing, and developing technology contractors. We are working with a team in Montevideo, Uruguay.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

Makerspaces and hackerspaces have sites and events, including education and training, where people with common interests can meet, socialize and collaborate. They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Facilitates building skills and familiarity with new tools.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

We all need help sometimes – and building a business is, by no means, immune to that. What if you could combine the flexibility of outsourcing with the quality level of highly skilled strategists? “Other platforms and freelancing sites lose the transparency aspect. Introducing SkillBridge. ” How It Works.

Outsource Development 105

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

Here are the key objectives that you can achieve by building a prototype, which are really the reasons that investors and partners will give you a whole new level of credibility as they evaluate your startup for potential funding: Something you can touch and feel helps validate opportunity.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Startup Ideas Tool 105

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

Make sure you have a lawyer to help draft your contracts and guide you’re communicating policies and procedures. Ensure you’ve got a handle on your financial position — By helping you create and track financial projections, accurately forecast your cash position and monitor your operating budget. But you do need financial guidance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Here are six results that you can achieve by building a prototype, which are really the reasons that investors and partners will give you a whole new level of credibility as they evaluate your startup for potential funding: Something you can touch and feel helps validate opportunity.

Ideas 53

Ideas Outsource Development Tool Outsource 53

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

A number of online sites support the potential viability of a youth oriented business, including: Auction & Classified Sites – eBay, Craig’s List and similar sites allow users to easily sell items online, without creating a dedicated website or incurring marketing expenses.

Web 2.0 222

Web 2.0 Web Sales Outsource Development 222

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2015

Program and account managers are helpful especially if more than one project is open. Security experts and other individuals might be helpful in creating and fixing network performance monitoring software. Then, there are the creative peoples that help make the Web Team’s work stand out among others.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues. I programed macros to help my mom with her Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets for work.

Startup 337

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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.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. That was the genesis of the site. It was discouraging.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Unpaid Search – Never pay a consultant to help you achieve a higher search ranking. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. For instance, a travel site might contain travel tips, along with ads for great deals on vacations.

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