Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. It’s no fun for either side.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2017

We caught up with the company's founder and CEO, David Baird , a former AOL executive, to learn more about what Gigmor is working on. How did you start the company? The way we reached that, was we saw that people were starting to use our site to discover and book talent. We did not start from scratch on that side, either.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2011

After you have heard a few startup success stories, like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, you may be tempted to invest some money yourself, maybe by pooling your funds with other investors who claim to have a great track record. My advice is to leave the investing in startups to the professionals (or friends and fools). By commission?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2015

An ethical culture deals with managing values between the individual and the company, to best handle the inevitable conflicts that crop up in every business. business culture entrepreneur ethics myths startup' Behind this myth lies the confused belief that ethics are a means of altering people’s values. The reality is different.

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Technology Council

OCTOBER 3, 2008

Here are quick links to the feature articles in this issue: Magnify360 Wins VentureNet Best Of Show 5 Mistakes To Avoid When Building Your Startup “Out Of The Box” PR Tactics. Offshore Outsourcing is Dying…Long Live Hybrid Nearshore. Check out the feature articles and the upcoming event schedule. 4 Rules For Email Design In [.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

Recently, Ive seen a lot of discussion about bringing the work back home, since costs have gone up in less-developed countries, there are issues with intellectual property, and time zone and language differences make management difficult. Its easy to find companies in certain countries that will quote cost reductions up to 75 percent.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about bringing the work back home, since costs have gone up in less-developed countries, there are issues with intellectual property, and time zone and language differences make management difficult. It’s easy to find companies in certain countries that will quote cost reductions up to 75 percent.

Outsource Development 122

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The other is stigma--going up to someone and saying, I have an addiction problem, or my son has an addiction problem, and can you help them. That caused me to start a student group we called Psychology In Action (www.psychologyinaction.org), to help get the word out about psychology research to the public. Adi Jaffe: It is tough.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

Update from original - just saw a follow-up post by Ben Kuo - Southern California Technology Jobs Surge. In between, I got an email from CJ Cenizal asking about this exact issue: I'm growing a social gaming startup, Elevated Games ( elevatedgames.com ) as Founder and CEO. I’m sure we’d all like to hear about it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2022

An ethical culture deals with managing values between the individual and the company, to best handle the inevitable conflicts that crop up in every business. Behind this myth lies the confused belief that ethics are a means of altering people’s values. The reality is different.

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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 caught up with Satish to learn more about the company and its products. What's your background, and how did the company start?

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Inverted Software

JUNE 15, 2018

At Inverted Software we often help our clients manage offshore and onshore development teams. He would often break the build, so around 3:15PM the entire development team would start getting warning emails and would be unable to deploy. It’s easy to get caught up in a hype about a new slick product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. It’s no fun for either side.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Startups Made Simple. Alvand Solutions - Alvand Solutions (www.alvandsolutions.com) provides world-class technology solutions, professional services and technical training with a focus on Offshore Software Development Management and Enterprise Data Protection. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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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 How did decide to start a company on focused expense software? technology to make submitting expense reports extremely easy. That was the concept.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

For today's interview, we spoke with Clark Benson , CEO and Founder of Ranker (www.ranker.com), on how the firm is looking to harness that same force to power its own startup, which offers up a way for users to create their own ranked lists of pretty much anything. How long has the site been up and running?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. It’s no fun for either side.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 63

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2010

See this LA Times article from last year about a likely scammer closer to startups, and an ongoing saga of events from the victim’s perspective. So what can you do, and what are the “red flags” to look for as you do your due diligence before pooling your money with other investors, or accepting money for your startup from investors?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

A while back, I published an article on “ Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art ,” describing what investors do to validate your startup before they invest. Here is the inverse, sometimes called reverse due diligence, describing what you should do to validate your investor before signing up for an equity partnership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2019

An ethical culture deals with managing values between the individual and the company, to best handle the inevitable conflicts that crop up in every business. Behind this myth lies the confused belief that ethics are a means of altering people’s values. The reality is different.

Software Review 77

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2013

An ethical culture deals with managing values between the individual and the company, to best handle the inevitable conflicts that crop up in every business. entrepreneur culture startup ethics growth business' Behind this myth lies the confused belief that ethics are a means of altering people’s values. The reality is different.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

An E visa is meant for foreign investors looking to start a business in the U.S. have authored bipartisan legislation aimed at jumpstarting the economy through the creation and growth of new businesses” through the reintroduction of the Start Up Act. or purely invest in established U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about bringing the work back home, since costs have gone up in less-developed countries, there are issues with intellectual property, and time zone and language differences make management difficult. It’s easy to find companies in certain countries that will quote cost reductions up to 75 percent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

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. These companies usually end up going extinct, like Lehman Brothers, WorldCom, and Enron. Next wave of economic expansion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

A while back, I published an article on “ Understanding the Dreaded Investor Due Diligence ,” describing what investors do to validate your startup before they invest. Here is the inverse, sometimes called reverse due diligence, describing what you should do to validate your investor before signing up for an equity partnership.

Offshore 89

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

It’s like giving up control of your company. Companies in Asia and Eastern Europe can still provide direct cost reductions of up to 75%. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Intellectual property content.

Outsource Development 51

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

An ethical culture deals with managing values between the individual and the company, to best handle the inevitable conflicts that crop up in every business. Behind this myth lies the confused belief that ethics are a means of altering people’s values. The reality is different.

Software Review 66

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Let me start by saying that Clayton is one of the most influential people on my thoughts about markets that led to both the concept behind my first startup and my main theses in investing. Startup Grind was a truly awesome conference and Derek the consumate host. .” Who else does Clayton pray for? Stay Out of Jail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. When buyers in one region start to slow down, look for buyers in other geographies to take up the slack. Balance your business between geographies. Speak the customer’s language.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

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. These companies usually end up going extinct, like Lehman Brothers, WorldCom, and Enron. Next wave of economic expansion.

Startup 102

Startup Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review 102

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. When buyers in one region start to slow down, look for buyers in other geographies to take up the slack. Balance your business between geographies. Speak the customer’s language.

Marketing 104

Marketing Startup Patents Offshore 104

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. When buyers in one region start to slow down, look for buyers in other geographies to take up the slack. Balance your business between geographies. Speak the customer’s language.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2011

We have heard that there are significant tax advantages in doing business offshore. However, the startup CEO must evaluate a number of potential pitfalls, before jumping on the international bandwagon. Manufacturing offshore could impact intellectual property. This comment applies especially to manufacturing in China.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2010

Entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, popularly known as “glocalization.” When buyers in one region start to slow down, look for buyers in other geographies to take up the slack. Balance your business between geographies. Find global sources now.

Startup 89

Startup Patents Offshore Demand 89

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Interestingly, we’ve won a number of deals by being the not–offshore alternative. Most people I know have had extremely bad experiences with offshore development. I’m working with a friend who’s got a Silicon Valley startup which made the mistake of hiring a Romanian development team.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Interestingly, we’ve won a number of deals by being the not-offshore alternative. Most people I know have had extremely bad experiences with offshore development. I’m working with a friend who’s got a Silicon Valley startup which made the mistake of hiring a Romanian development team.

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