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Direct Drive Systems Acquired for $120M

socalTECH

According to FMC, it will pay $120M for Direct Drive Systems, which makes components used for pumping natural gas pipelines, offshore platforms, and for the subsea processing market. Direct Drive is a spinout of Calnetix.

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How Gigmor Is Looking To Connect Musicians With Gigs, with David Baird

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What markets are you in right now? We're pretty much in every major market, particularly in music strong communities, like Los Angeles, New york, Nashville, and Toronto. I think we've got an advantage, to kickstart this, and move faster than they were in the early days. The bulk of our users are in the U.S. and Canada.

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Interview with Satish Varma, Clorder

socalTECH

We are an online ordering platform, that helps restaurants enhance their web presence and the profitability of their brand. We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. We have been building them marketing and collateral, tabletops, and everything in store as well as online.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

socalTECH

It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. The hardest part, is if you want a platform which is a broad platform, and not just about one topic or genre, about all kinds of things.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. Because the formation of a business is so dependent on “product / market fit&# these are the critical roles for me. What about offshoring? If they’re not I won’t fund.