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. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

who rely on TriNet for access to outsourced human resources, like their healthcare benefits and workplace policies, were sent an email this week as part of an effort to keep employees “informed and up-to-date on the labor and employment laws that affect you.” This is not a phishing site, but it sure looks like one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage. Use open-source e-commerce and website software, including web-chat software and PayPal, rather than building expensive customized solutions.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

(Editor's note: we're crossposting a version of this interview between our Rocky Mountain site, techrockies.com, and our Southern California site, socalTECH.com). We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. What is Sendgrid?

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2016

The company has initially set up operations in Seattle, but says on its web site that it is in the midst of setting up a Los Angeles location. The startup--started by former executives from LA's International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), said it will provide IT and finance consulting for companies in the aircraft leasing industry.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

What we do, is we build them private, cloud infrastructure, and make it available in an easy to consume web portal. Companies were saying--we want to outsource these kinds of things, because they''re not our core competency. They want the benefits of cloud computing, but they''re afraid because of security or reliability concerns.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

If all their sites look the same, or without even hearing your full project requirements they say things like, “Your website has to be created in Ruby on Rails (or any language) or it won’t be viable”, then they not be that flexible in how they address your needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly Store. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Maybe you should start with an online e-commerce site, based on your favorite hobby expertise.

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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. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2016

We all know it’s less expensive to automate the support role, through web site forms and touch-tone phone systems. Outsourcing your support team to a far-away country and culture is not the way to start. Every support situation is different, such that written policies and edicts from the top are not enough.

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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. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster.

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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. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Your chores can be outsourced through Porter. That’s the only thing that is outsourced. We launched with a web app, so we are only web-based. For the people that sign up to our site, we are converting 35% of those people into customers. TechZulu: What is Porter? We do everything in house, but dry cleaning.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. That was the genesis of the site. It was discouraging.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. So, buyers will come to our site, which has all of these beautiful images from all. building a web site for him. I figured there.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 30, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Particularly for consumer web sites, things dont have to be perfect all of the time. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary!

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Frank Addante

MAY 8, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. At ReaXions, we created one of the first online video streaming enabled sites for the 1998 Winter Olympics. A BIG THANK YOU. Be scrappy.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. Everyone is now pretty much selling direct on apparel sites now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2019

With the cost of starting an online business today at an all-time low, I can’t imagine why everyone doesn’t have a web site and an LLC to mitigate liability and minimize taxes. New tools make it easy create your own web site, and manage accounting. Start networking for potential partners or people who can help.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU.

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. I dropped out of college, and eventually, we grew the site to be the 7th most popular website on the Internet (Microsoft was #8 at the time).

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. At Starting Point (Startup 1.0) , an Internet search engine, I would put links up on the site to announce new ideas. A BIG THANK YOU.

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Starting Point was best at searching the search engines and, as a result, we quickly became the 7th most popular site on the Internet.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

Initially, my desire to go into the mobile space came from my love for design and my weariness with web or print related art. Early in the days of devices, it was tougher to get great performance from Web Dev based applications, but as the phones and tablets grow in power, the responsiveness is becoming almost indistinguishable.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

Outsourcing ▼ April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. They keep 100% of the revenue from their own website and only a fraction when selling advertising on other sites. A BIG THANK YOU.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. So, he built an auction.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

20 Recommended Quora Threads for Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 1, 2010 The Q&A site Quora has become an indispensable trove of knowledge and expertise when it comes to the tech industry. Ask a question and get an answer - that is, after all, what all Q&A sites offer. This should not deter you. This doesn’t make sense.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We are an online ordering platform, that helps restaurants enhance their web presence and the profitability of their brand. We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. We found out that sites like Eat24 and Grubhub are portals. What is Clorder?

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU.

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Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. People often spend too much time on the methods and lose site of the results. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU.

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Startup Outsource Development Product Advertising 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. With the web, you can change things everyday because it is always in your control. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! Startup 3.0:

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. What about outsourcing? For me outsourcing in a pure startup is the kiss of death. First, many people confuse outsourcing and offshoring.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU.

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