InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

For children with a proclivity toward business, a newspaper route provided an invaluable opportunity to develop the following entrepreneurial skills: Punctuality – Newspapers had to be delivered on time, irrespective of the weather, the fact that Sunday papers can weigh several pounds each or the requirement to wake up at the crack of dawn.

Web 2.0 222

Web 2.0 Web Sales Outsource Development 222

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Los Angeles-based Alelo, the USC spinout which is developing "serious" games to teach languages and cultures, has scored a contract with the Voice of America. Alelo said the contract calls for using automated speech recognition and artifical intelligence to help people learning English to practice their conversational skills.

Outsource Development 100

Outsource Development USC Web Los Angeles 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly.

Entrepreneur 162

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Outsource Development 162

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. Always have a developer do a test project before hiring them to make sure they deliver quality work. This will prove your product is worth building to you and to the developer. Ask for is code samples.

CTO Hire 81

CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop Development 81

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2015

There are various tech savvy groups of people that can assist businesses in their development, implementation and use of technology. IT Departments and Web Teams are not synonymous. Web Teams are necessary to running websites and applications. They sometimes must communicate with the Web Team, but this is not always the case.

Web 40

Web Cloud Computing Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Companies are rightsized quickly now as markets change rapidly, and business professionals are quick to jump to new opportunities for growth and survival, with no ties to special benefits or pension plans. Here are some examples: Marketing Professional. Software Development Professional.

Startup 106

Startup Social Media Course Entrepreneur 106

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Ineffective and expensive marketing campaigns. The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media. Outsourcing services that could be done in-house. Outsourcing is an expensive solution for poor planning.

Outsource Development 122

Outsource Development Outsource Metrics Technical Review 122

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

Companies are rightsized quickly now as markets change rapidly, and business professionals are quick to jump to new opportunities for growth and survival, with no ties to special benefits or pension plans. Here are some examples: Marketing Professional. Software Development Professional.

Startup 164

Startup Social Media Course Entrepreneur 164

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. Along with a team of nine developers, the six young adult authors spent two months working nights and weekends to bring Realms of Ruin to life.

Writing 196

Writing Outsource Development Technical Review Examples 196

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 have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Startup 40

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, you must first create the playbook by which an independent sales rep can readily sell your product, including: identifying objections and developing strategies to overcome them, creating reference accounts and establishing meaningful customer adoption. 4) Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis. 7) Hire A Consultant.

Startup 242

Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. However, every web application needs and email component. What is Sendgrid?

Email 157

Email Startup IP Newsletter 157

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

We caught up with founder and CEO Grant Kirkwood --a serial entrepreneur and veteran of providing infrastructure to the enterprise markets--on the vision behind the company. What we do, is we build them private, cloud infrastructure, and make it available in an easy to consume web portal. Explain to us what Unitas Global does?

Cloud Computing 217

Cloud Computing Outsource Development Outsource Startup 217

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. Remind me about your background Steve?

Los Angeles 179

Los Angeles Product Angel Startup 179

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly Store.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Commerce 104

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We caught up with Michele and Dan to better understand why they founded the company, and why this market was such an interest to them. We have developed a tool that takes scientific, validated methodologies from academia, and use that to assess unconscious bias around race, gender, age, and other personality attributes, in the workplace.

Content 150

Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. At least in the consumer & business web.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

socalTECH

JULY 24, 2014

The company--which originally started in Austria--set up shop here two years ago to further expand its footprint in the US, and most recently hired away the entire Los Angeles marketing team of crosstown CRM software developer Nimble. We''re gaining approximately 25 customers a month, and until now we had no marketing.

Sales 229

Sales Startup Software Customer 229

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

We spoke to Daryl about the firm, the founders, and their use of Amazon Web Services as its back end. And, haven't some folks been trying to educate people about the market for awhile? For example, if a contract is disputed, you have various layers of protection--there's a digital archive of the original and the completed contract.

Outsource Development 100

Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

Companies are rightsized quickly now as markets change rapidly, and business professionals are quick to jump to new opportunities for growth and survival, with no ties to special benefits or pension plans. Here are some examples: Marketing Professional. Software Development Professional.

Entrepreneur 99

Entrepreneur Startup Mentor Social Media 99

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Startup 108

Startup Invest Patents Outsource Development 108

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

That is, of course, as long as what you are selling is the absolute best in your market.) As a last resort I outsourced and actually hired someone in India to remotely log into my computer during the night and correct all the errors from the scanned cards, which my in house team had processed earlier in the day.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

Initially, my desire to go into the mobile space came from my love for design and my weariness with web or print related art. I joined ranks with an Austin App developer, taking the role of Creative Director and setting up their design team and process. After directing a film in 2009, I wanted to get back into the design industry.

Design 94

Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

For our startup interview this morning, we caught up with Satish Varma , co-founder of Torrance-based Clorder (www.clorder.com), which is developing restaurant ordering software. We are an online ordering platform, that helps restaurants enhance their web presence and the profitability of their brand. What is Clorder?

Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Social Media Outsource Development 100

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy to help develop tools to secure the power grid. OT networks had a parallel development track with IT systems, but had primarily been focused on industrial applications. Thanks for the time today.

Networking 124

Networking Startup Incubator Orange County 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. What our company is doing, is it is developing an online tool for people to find addiction treatment to meet their needs. Adi Jaffe: It is tough.

UCLA 204

UCLA Research Tech Coast Angels Offshore 204

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Funding 98

Funding Startup Patents Outsource Development 98

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. Generally speaking, today there is no good example of a market for energy storage at the building level which would justify the investment in that storage.

Southern California 100

Southern California Technical Review Demand Outsource Development 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2019

com), based in Glendale, which has developed new heat energy storage technology aimed at use in the industrial sector. We originally developed this heat storage technology for use in concentrated solar, for collecting heat from the sun. That project is still in the middle of development, capturing 1.5MW of intermittent waste heat.

Help 113

Help Startup Technology Outsource Development 113

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 The firm has taken the ease-of-use, interconnectivity, and other features we take granted from modern Web 2.0 How big is the firm now?

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Startup SaaS Report 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2016

Companies are rightsized quickly now as markets change rapidly, and business professionals are quick to jump to new opportunities for growth and survival, with no ties to special benefits or pension plans. Here are some examples: Marketing Professional. Software Development Professional.

Entrepreneur 56

Entrepreneur Services Startup Social Media 56

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

Steven Sesar: FreedomPop is all about bringing the freemium model to the wireless Internet market, and disrupting the telephone companies. Currently, users pay up front for data packages, and there are inefficiencies in that market. First, for people who haven't yet heard about FreedomPop, talk about what the service is all about?

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

I could easily go into the board rooms of major European companies (I was based in London) and land $500k – $1 million contracts so my order book grew rapidly. It soaked up all of our development resources and didn’t allow us to focus on what we felt our company strategy was. We had to do intense training sessions.

Startup 389

Startup Customer Custom Resource 389

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

William--who, among prior experience developed Stamps.com's security architecture--sat down with us to explain the firm's products and plans. William Chow: The applications we are going to market with initially are enterprise applications. What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is?

SaaS 127

SaaS Web Google Sites 127

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage blogs and other resources, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Startup 93

Startup Patents Outsource Development Web 93