Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2023

Here are five key recovery strategies that both of us recommend to all of you: Pursue repeat business. Maybe it’s time to outsource that call center operation, or complex manufacturing setup. examines and analyses this entrepreneurial revolution to reveal critical lessons every Gen-Y entrepreneur and marketer must learn.

Capital 93

Capital Geni Layoffs Entrepreneur 93

socalTECH

JULY 26, 2011

The firm said it sold the unit for $50M in cash to Cognizant , a provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services. The two said that as part of the deal, the two have agreed to a services agreement worth $325M over five years, where Cognizant will provide CoreLogic with a range of services.

Outsource 133

Outsource Services Technology Acquisition 133

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Here are five key ones to celebrate: Enjoy the feedback from every satisfied customer. One approach, which is even more work, is to keep tasks in-house rather than outsourcing. Moving a dream into reality requires balancing on a tight-rope of passion supported by unending efforts to move heaven and earth to make it happen.

Startup 118

Startup Satisfaction Customer Custom 118

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As a summary, crowdfunding today can mean any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model. In fact, perhaps the most important model, equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors was legalized via the SEC way back in 2016, and its impact is still not fully understood.

Funding 141

Funding Startup Outsource Development Satisfaction 141

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Here are five key recovery strategies that both of us recommend to all of you: Pursue repeat business. Maybe it’s time to outsource that call center operation, or complex manufacturing setup. examines and analyses this entrepreneurial revolution to reveal critical lessons every Gen-Y entrepreneur and marketer must learn.

Geni 172

Geni Layoffs Entrepreneur Outsource 172

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

Here are five key ones to celebrate: Enjoy the feedback from every satisfied customer. One approach, which is even more work, is to keep tasks in-house rather than outsourcing. Moving a dream into reality requires balancing on a tight-rope of passion supported by unending efforts to move heaven and earth to make it happen.

Satisfaction 174

Satisfaction Customer Custom Outsource 174

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2010

Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products. When globalization or technology shrinks distances (Internet), painful missing needs become evident, and opportunities abound. The impact of global instability.

Startup 82

Startup Outsource Development Outsource Course 82

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Most of you prefer to ignore the feedback from analysts that your chances of creating the next unicorn startup may be as low as one in five million. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage. The big question is how you can beat these odds.

Outsource Development 154

Outsource Development Social Media Software Review Customer 154

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

I’m a big fan of first creating a real business plan, with five-year financial projections, to convince yourself and investors that you have done your homework. Especially today, when more companies are willing to work through outsourcing, freelancing, and contracting. The advisor will give you real credibility.

Startup 161

Startup Resource Customer Custom 161

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2019

Among my favorites were Thanks for Being Late (Thomas Friedman), The Alchemist (Paul Coehlo), The Virgin Way (Richard Branson), Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk), The Five Dysfuntions of a Team (Patrick Lencionithanks Peter Lamson) and The Mamba Mentality (Kobe Bryant). As a result I was able read a lot more this yeara record 32 books.

Capital 113

Capital Southern California Technical Review SaaS 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

If you have completed four out of five milestones, we can both see success in your future. Too many entrepreneurs I know burn themselves out as this burden grows, and they are hesitant to use available tools or outsourcing non-critical tasks to allow scaling. We all need to see progress toward a goal to keep us motived and focused.

Startup 123

Startup Outsource Development Entrepreneur Outsource 123

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

Even with this, crowdfunding today means any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model. In fact, perhaps the most important model, equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors was only legalized via the SEC in 2016, so its impact is still in the early stages.

Entrepreneur 129

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Satisfaction Equity 129

Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

As enterprises outsource more of the business operations to hosted platforms, more emphasis needs to be placed on ensuring mission-critical applications are always accessible. Reaching a goal of “five 9s” uptime requires three strategies. This means that the network connections to enterprise sites increase in their importance.

Networking 45

Networking Southern California Outsource Development Startup 45

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Note: There are clearly tasks which can be effectively outsourced at a startup, when: (i) they do not require a significant time investment on the part of the entrepreneur to educate the outsourcer or, (ii) the knowledge gained by the outsourcer is not critical to the adVenture’s operations. 8 ) Grant Exclusivity.

Startup 242

Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

Georg Richter: For the five years before I started the company in January of 2016, I was at Guthy Renker, which is one of the largest and biggest direct marketing companies in the world. I was there for five years, helping them to rebuild their technology from a legacy system, and use cloud-based technology. How did you get into this?

Startup 145

Startup Product Customer Custom 145

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2014

Rogers talks about this phenomenon in his book, “ The Network is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age ,” and suggests some strategies to improve your perceived engagement level. So start now to think of your startup as a media company, rather than an outsourcer of advertising from some anonymous experts.

Customer 99

Customer Custom Startup Content 99

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

We also have a cloud-baesd, billing and practice management solutions, which enables them to manage all of their internal financial processes, and we also have solutions for billing and cloud-based outsourcing of back office tasks. doctors in small offices. We''re generating tens of million in annual revenues today.

Startup 160

Startup El Segundo CTO Hire Outsource Development 160

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

Here are five key ones to celebrate: Enjoy the feedback from every satisfied customer. One approach, which is even more work, is to keep tasks in-house rather than outsourcing. Moving a dream into reality requires balancing on a tight-rope of passion supported by unending efforts to move heaven and earth to make it happen.

Satisfaction 101

Satisfaction Entrepreneur Customer Custom 101

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Rogers talks about this phenomenon in his book, The Network is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age , and suggests some strategies to improve your perceived engagement level. So start now to think of your startup as a media company, rather than an outsourcer of advertising from some anonymous experts.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Startup Content Media 111

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Even with this, crowdfunding today means any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model. In fact, perhaps the most important model, equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors, is still not legal in the U.S., Other popular funding assistance sites for startups, including StartupAmerica and Startups.co

Venture Capital 108

Venture Capital Angel Satisfaction Equity 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2014

Every time I try outsourcing manufacturing, I get quality problems.” “If Investors want five-year projections, which is ridiculous considering all the unknowns.” “My “I can’t seem to find employees who are committed to my business.” Customer expectations these days can be unreasonable.”

Entrepreneur 99

Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Satisfaction 99

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. Obviously, anyone except the largest five to ten content companies in the world, such as Google, Netflix, or Amazon, does not need to own their own CDN. Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We realized afer 2011 that we were spreading ourselves thin by trying to make five to ten websites great. Google will syndicate ads to a site with five visitors or 50 million visitors, the challenge really is getting good quality traffic. We never have to worry about monetization, and outsource that to Google.

Google 236

Google Sites Startup Web 236

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

For those who may be living under a rock and have no idea what SXSWi is, its five days of presentations and panel discussions from some of the biggest thought leaders in Interactive digital media space. Scaling thru Outsourcing. TechZulu is helping the Southern California tech community out by listing all the great panels.

Southern California 89

Southern California SoCal Guide Mixergy 89

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2013

Every time I try outsourcing manufacturing, I get quality problems.” “If Investors want five-year projections, which is ridiculous considering all the unknowns.” “My “I can’t seem to find employees who are committed to my business.” Customer expectations these days can be unreasonable.”

Startup 100

Startup Entrepreneur Outsource Satisfaction 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2013

Here are five key post-recession strategies that both of us recommend to all of you: Pursue repeat business. Maybe it’s time to outsource that call center operation, or complex manufacturing setup. examines and analyses this entrepreneurial revolution to reveal critical lessons every Gen-Y entrepreneur and marketer must learn.

Startup 98

Startup Geni Entrepreneur Layoffs 98

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

Here are five key ones to celebrate: Enjoy the feedback from every satisfied customer. One approach, which is even more work, is to keep tasks in-house rather than outsourcing. Moving a dream into reality requires balancing on a tight-rope of passion supported by unending efforts to move heaven and earth to make it happen.

Satisfaction 61

Satisfaction Startup Customer Custom 61

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

If you look at the numbers from Comscore, we are doing about half the number of uniques that Maker is doing, but we''re doing it with only five channels, versus their 50 thousands channels. Collectively, we now have a billion and a half views, and we have nearly six million subscribers to our channels, and 450 million views a month.

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Entrepreneurs who don’t have someone else’s cash for outsourcing come up with the more innovative and creative approaches to get things done. Investors want their money back, with sizable gains and no hassle, in three to five years. You don’t have to fight for your equity, and no one can slow you down in decision making.

Entrepreneur 67

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Outsource Development 67

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

If you raise an angel round consisting of five investors who put in $100K each, that’s five people you have to answer to. Five phone calls every time things change direction, or something bad/good happens. Investors are a time suck, because they need to be handheld. The worst investors are small investors.

Outsource Development 93

Outsource Development High Tech Outsource Startup 93

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

As a current Angel investor, I can attest that any investments in startups are more risky than the commodity markets, and you shouldn’t expect to see any return for five years. This is not a get-rich-quick vehicle for consumers. Proceed at your own peril. Good-cause crowd funding. This model is a good thing, and has been around for years.

Funding 96

Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 96

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

A hype cycle in Gartner's interpretation always comprises five phases: Technology trigger. New this year are application services and outsourcing, cloud application infrastructure services, cloud security, privacy and smart cities. This report evaluates the maturity of more than 1,900 technologies and trends in 89 areas.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Press Cloud Computing Technology 93

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2012

Here are five key recession recovery strategies that both of us recommend to all of you: Pursue repeat business. Maybe it’s time to outsource that call center operation, or complex manufacturing setup. examines and analyses this entrepreneurial revolution to reveal critical lessons every Gen-Y entrepreneur and marketer must learn.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Geni Layoffs Outsource 93

InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

I asked TaxJar’s Co-Founder and CEO, Mark Faggiano to list five reasons his decentralized venture has flourished. He then started several successful companies, including FastSpring, a company that provides outsourced e-commerce services to over 3,000 software companies. Note: I am an investor in TaxJar via Rincon Venture Partners.).

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Email Outsource Development 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2011

Rogers talks about this phenomenon in his book, The Network is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age , and suggests some strategies to improve your perceived engagement level. So start now to think of your startup as a media company, rather than an outsourcer of advertising from some anonymous experts.

Media 91

Media Startup Company Companies 91

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

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. THE FIVE C’S. My advice to people thinking about getting an MBA is to think about the five C’s. It’s either part of the DNA or it’s not. What you gain: 1.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

John Tomich: We've been around for five years. The company was incorporated in January of 2004, and we provide outsource e-commerce services to organizations, such as brands and retailers. We had the chance to talk with co-founder John Tomich about the funding and the firm, which operates e-commerce sites for fashion brands and others.

Venture Capital 113

Venture Capital SEM Commerce Email 113