socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Calabasas-based BlackLine Systems , the developer of financial close software headed by Therese Tucker, reports today that it has signed on Outsource Partners International (OPI) as a partner. OPI is a provider of outsourcing services for finance and accounting firms.

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Outsource Development Outsource Calabasas Software 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2014

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital said this morning that it has acquired Tolt Services Group , an outsource, IT services company, and merged it with Kyrus Solutions , to form a new company called Tolt Solutions. Financial details of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

San Diego-based Advantar Laboratories , a provider of contract laboratory services to the drug development industry, has signed an agreement with UK-based firm NextPharma Technologies, a pharmaceutical product development, contract manufacturing, and outsourcing service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

If you have a software development background like mine, Im sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based CoreObjects Software , a provider of software development to both startups and other firms, has been acquired. According to Symphony Service Corp. , a provider of software product engineering services based in Bangalore, India, it has acquired CoreObjects and its delivery centers in Bangalore and Pune, India.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Don’t outsource your core competency. Product or services.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2019

Canoo is locking in final contracts with its vendors and is going to be in production with prototypes before the end of the year. The company is also crafting its user interface and subscription services around its passengers and renters. operations. and China, according to one person with knowledge of the company’s plans.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2010

Simi Valley-based Xavient Information Systems , a provider of IT outsourcing services, and Virginia-based Vision360 , a provider of custom software development, testing, and other services for the telecommunications industry, said today that they are in a definitive merger agreement, where Xavient will acquired Vision360.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 -- "Partnering With Product Design Firms To Accelerate Your Product Development Cycle" PDMA. A panel of both service providers AND satisfied client companies will share their experiences using and providing contracted resources. See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2012

Los Angeles-based expense management software and services developer ExpenseCloud , which was founded by Eric Sikola and Dan Fritcher, has been acquired by human resources provider Trinet , according to reports today. TriNet is a provider of outsource human resources services. READ MORE>>.

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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. 2) Secure Your Intellectual Property Too Early. 6) Rely On A Public Relations Agency.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2010

Long Beach-based Molina Healthcare , a provider of health plans and managed care services, said today that it is buying the Health Information Management (HIM) business of Unisys Corporation , in a deal worth approximately $135M. The firm said the buy would complement its Medicaid health plan business.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 10, 2019

Publicly traded sensor technology developer, FLIR Systems , is investing in a strategic round of funding for the outsourced drone imaging company, DroneBase. The two companies are also partnering to provide FLIR’s thermal imaging technology and training services to DroneBase’s stable of pilots.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2011

Irvine-based Kofax , the developer of document capture products, said earlier this week that it has been selected by an un-named, leading business process outsourcing (BPO) firm. million, is for its products in the real estate, mortgage, asset management, and financial services industries.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

Many young startups are being advised not to have a professional services business and in my opinion this is a big mistake. The line of reasoning goes, “Services businesses are not scalable and the market won’t reward this revenue so make sure that third-parties do your implementation or clients do it themselves.

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socalTECH

JULY 1, 2009

Los Angeles-based CoreObjects , a provider of outsourced product development services to the venture-backed technology community, has raised $2.0M Tags: development software outsourced capital venture coreobjects. in a equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Santa Monica-baseed digital outsourcing provider TaskUs , led by Bryce Maddock and Jaspar Weir, said Tuesday evening that it hired over 5,300 employees in 2016, and now has more than 7,000 total employees spread across eleven different offices.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2013

Anaheim- and Boulder, Colorado-based email services provider SendGrid has linked up with Google App Engine , the Google program which lets developers host their websites on Google''s Cloud. SendGrid said it is the first, third party email service available in the Google Cloud. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2024

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Back in 2003 and 2004, we were focused on the international market, and started outsourcing to India and the Philippines for call center services. In terms of tactics, we went from 20-odd people at the company to just three people, myself and two developers. Dan Tamkin: There are tactics and strategy.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2018

San Diego's Scientist.com , which operates a marketplace for outsource scientific services, and fellow San Diego biopharmaecuticals firm Allele Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals , said ths two are in a partnership around nanoantibody development.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Los Angeles-based Ciena Solutions LLC, a provider of SAP integration management services, has been acquired by NetSol Technologies. NetSol, which provides business outsourcing and enterprise application development, did not disclose financial terms of the buy.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

As part of the lead in to the conference, and as a part of our sponsor relationship with the conference, we're running a series of interviews with speakers from the conference about their experience in the area of recurring revenues, customer service, and similar topics. It sounds like you actually do all your customer service in house?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Specialized services, such as accounting, require skilled people, training, and tools, and do not scale well. This reduces the cost of customer acquisition, allows easy upgrades for service and new features, and improves customer loyalty in the face of new competitors in the market. Facilitate rapid growth through contracted resources.

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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. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Work out of your home, and keep your own books.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2008

According to iRise, General Motors is deploying its visual modeling technology as part of developing new IT systems at the company. iRise said that the win comes thanks to Capgemini, a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing services. Financial impact of the customer win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

Companies were saying--we want to outsource these kinds of things, because they''re not our core competency. However, when they went to build out a second, disaster recovery site, they figure out that they had been there and done that, and didn''t want to build another one--they decided to outsource it.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

For example, only a few people today still think of Amazon as an online provider of books and related goods, now that they have exploded their business world-wide into every product arena, added web services (AWS), television and film production (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), a bricks-and-mortar grocery chain (Whole Foods), and more.

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Outsource Development Outsource Startup Metrics 140

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2010

Irvine-based OneMind Connect , which develops the ExpensAble expense report management software, has been acquired, according to human resources outsourcing firm Administaff. ExpensAble is an expense report management software delivered both as installable desktop software and as software-as-a-service.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I had joined AC in 1991 as a programmer when it was a relatively small practice focused on building corporate IT systems for Fortune 500 companies and there were a handful of companies that offered the same service. Don’t be psyched out by your competitors big financing round, latest product release or business development deal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

But recently I was asked about success factors for services startups, and I quickly realized that there is very little published to help the thousands of startups that fall in this category. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see. Scaling services means cloning yourself.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Conflicting visions won’t work.

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socalTECH

JULY 14, 2015

Pasadena-based Green Dot , the provider of prepaid Mastercard and mobile banking services, said today that it has opened up a new office in Shanghai, China, which will provide engineering and software development resources to the company. According to Green Dot, it officially opened up Green Dot Shanghai Software Technology Co.

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