Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

While some organizations may have the resources to manage their own network, an in-house team without the right technical prowess may still struggle to handle their networks in the most cost-effective and productive way. MNSPs can make the initial service and technology transitions painless, minimizing the likelihood of expensive mistakes.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Irvine-based CanopyHR Solutions , a provider of outsourced payroll and human resources services, announced today that it has received a investment from Claritas Capital Fund III, L.P. Tags: canopyhr human resources payroll outsourcing venture capital. Amount of the funding was not disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Startups that sell innovative new products seem to get all the attention these days, but services may be the quicker way to larger profits and faster growth. If you think about it, services make more sense in this social media age where relationships, personalization, and interaction are king. Advisory services. Everybody wins.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. Investors don’t invest in services startups. I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

When you are starting a new business, every resource is precious, including time, funding, and people. New businesses often burn excessive resources working on the wrong things, or doing things the wrong way. Excessive resources required in this area are rarely recognized. Outsourcing services that could be done in-house.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

With the appearance of do-it-yourself services on the Internet, entrepreneur curriculums at every university, and a wealth of new books on the subject, the need for expensive consultants and business advisors has also been mitigated. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

Maybe we haven’t seen the results yet, but there are thousands of startup opportunities to offer new alternatives and services, to replace those destroyed by the crisis. Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2023

Maybe it’s time to outsource that call center operation, or complex manufacturing setup. Look for operations that are hogging resources without generating significant revenue. These are chances to broaden your product line, change distribution, offer new services. Focus on your core competency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

Of course, it helps to pick a business model that minimizes these costs, such as e-commerce to minimize initial staff and facilities, or professional services, where you are the initial product. Assess your resource potential before you start. Build your plan around resources you know. Everyone wins with this approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2020

Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. Investors don’t invest in services startups. I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists.

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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. Factor in all the cost elements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

Customer service has always been reactionary, meaning someone has to wake up and answer website email requests. Great startups are getting ahead of the game with “anticipatory customer service,” like providing smart phone access to product and account data to head off complaints. This exemplary customer service is just savvy marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Maybe it’s time to outsource that call center operation, or complex manufacturing setup. Look for operations that are hogging resources without generating significant revenue. These are chances to broaden your product line, change distribution, offer new services. Focus on your core competency.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Maybe we haven’t seen the results yet, but there are thousands of startup opportunities to offer new alternatives and services, to replace those destroyed by the crisis. Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

You should never outsource the management of your core technology. Of course, there are many commercial resources available on the Internet, including the Thomas Registry , which is an online database of 500,000 specialty manufacturers, distributors, and prototype developers, across every state and country.

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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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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Phishing emails are designed to impersonate companies or executives to trick users into turning over sensitive information, typically usernames and passwords, so that scammers can log into online services and steal money or data. Remote employees at companies across the U.S.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

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

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

You should never outsource the management of your core technology. Of course, there are many commercial resources available on the Internet, including the Thomas Registry , which is an online database of 500,000 specialty manufacturers, distributors, and prototype developers, across every state and country.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 21, 2010

They began small; a small business owner understanding a need, filling that need, and slowly adding products, services and people. If you are confident in your product or service, you need to take a chance on yourself with your own money. Start on your own, and outsource later. Global Human Resources Outsourcing.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 5, 2011

Crowdsourcing, as a method of leveraging the massive pool of online users as resources, has become a viable set of techniques, tools, and marketplaces for organizations and entrepreneurs to drive innovation and generate value. How is it different from outsourcing? How to ensure quality or service level?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The HTML5 platform that we use is also available as a self service tool to customers. At Spin Media, we tried to do that ourselves, but that really sucked up product and development resources, who really should have been working on building the user experience, rather than ads. Can you explain exactly what is different about your ads?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

And that rep doesn’t just send an email to his boss – he has coffee with the head of customer service. I think this splits up critical resources and builds separate cultures in two locations. What about outsourcing? For me outsourcing in a pure startup is the kiss of death. And it doesn’t stop there.

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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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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 7, 2010

What is the biggest resource constraint on business owners? It’s not that the owners aren’t working hard enough; it’s that they are wasting their most precious resource. If not, consider delegating it if you have staff or outsourcing if you do not. What is the value of your time? generating revenues)?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

John Tomich: OneStop Internet is an e-commerce services company. We provide a turnkey, back end, managed service offering for brands and retailers on an outsourced basis. We are an option for brands who don''t want to build it themselves in-house, from soup to nuts, or don''t want to outsource to a single vendor.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MAY 15, 2011

This is not about paying lip-service to helping small companies — it’s about the genuine representation of their needs and interests in Washington D.C.” said Kevin McDonald, President of TCVN.

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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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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

” Much of this will look and feel like a Green New Deal, but sold under a package of infrastructure modernization and service upgrades that the country desperately needs. . The focus will be on distributed energy resources, retrofits of residential, commercial and municipal buildings; and clean transportation.

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