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TaskUs Names Chief Customer Officer

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Los Angeles-based TaskUs , which provides outsourced customer support and other back-end support for technology companies, said today that it has named Jarrod Johnson as Chief Customer Officer. Johnson also had served at ACS and IBM. Johnson was previously SVP of Sales at TaskUs, and will be based in the company's Dallas offices.

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TaskUs Names Sales VP

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Los Angeles-based TaskUs , which provides business process outsourcing, said this week that it has named Jarrod Johnson as Senior Vice President of Sales. Johnson was most recently SVP of Sales, Marketing, and Client Development at FacilitySource, and also had served at IBM and Xerox. Johnson will be based in Dallas.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

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There were the existing large consulting firms like IBM, CSC, Cap Gemini, PwC and Deloitte Consulting as well as the upstarts like Scient, Viant, Razorfish, Diamond Consulting and a host of others. During the down market they were able to double down on recruiting, sales, outsourcing, new market entries and marketing (yes, with Tiger ads ).

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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My family had the very first edition of the IBM XT computer with a 10 MB hard drive. 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. Not hard-core, just the stuff you’d do if you were in jr.

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Innovative Services Are A Huge Boon For Startups

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Welcome To The New Wave Of Opportunities And Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

My friends who “grew up” with lifetime careers in General Motors, Exxon Mobil, or even IBM, are now often too embarrassed to even mention it. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. They have proven themselves unable to innovate, and they have lost more jobs than they create.

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Looking At Startups By The Rules Of Natural Selection

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