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Reflections on 2016: Jaspar Weir, TaskUs

socalTECH

What's was biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year? We hired 5,326 new employees and opened three new locations. Most exciting is our new San Antonio office which offers domestic support options. Jaspar Weir: Service is our favorite innovation app (and site) this year. Tell them what happened.

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How Dare They Block My Facebook at Work?

Startup Professionals Musings

Advanced persistence threats (APT) – opens the door to a new class of intelligent application cracking tools. Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) – technique used to spread networking worms. Contractor, temp, or outsource worker off site. Twitter accounts are being used as a command and control center for botnets.

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TechZulu Top 2013 SXSW Panel Picks & More

Tech Zulu Event

SXSWi has listed the following information on their site: If you or someone you know is doing amazing work with technology to help their community, nominate them for a chance to win a scholarship to attend SXSW Interactive. Global News After the Twitter Revolutions. Outsourcing Startup Operations. Content and Distribution.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

They attract over 70 million people a month (just in the US), and by most accounts are still one of the 10 most popular sites in the world. They also have a new management team, that’s headed up in part by Michael Jones (COO), the most all around talented internet executive I know. I wouldn’t bet against MySpace. MySpace = Yahoo2.0:

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Porter: Mobile Chores | The Constant Hustle and LA Tech, Interview with CEO Matt Lucido

Tech Zulu Event

People can buy anything, look up news, watch videos, and the list goes on and on. App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. Your chores can be outsourced through Porter. That’s the only thing that is outsourced. But the good news is we are growing 200% per month every month.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

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

Both Sides of the Table

The sales rep that brings back news from the front line that is shared with the office adds to our collective knowledge about customer needs, product design flaws or partnership opportunities. What about outsourcing? For me outsourcing in a pure startup is the kiss of death. I’m against it in almost all situations.