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. Or more precisely the people espousing the benefits of distributed startups teams are often distributed and therefore self rationalizing it.

Technical Advisors 335

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Start with a service you know and love. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Startup 174

Startup Training Services Writing 174

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. Gap closed, right? Probably not.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2012

You may end up hiring these people eventually and you'll know more about them when you do. When I talk with early-stage companies, often the discussion starts with them asking me about Hiring a CTO for Your Startup , or Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup or How to Find Programmers for Your Startup.

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CTO Hire Outsource Development CTO Coach Develop 205

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. Keep up with modern business tools and online processes. New tools make it easy create your own web site, and manage accounting.

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Startup Tool Study Web 73

socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2016

Zeevo Group , a new startup aiming at providing operations support to the aircraft leasing industry, has launched, and is looking at LA as one of its first locations. 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.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

In addition to all of them reaching the pinnacle of their chosen professions, they also all started their careers performing the same job. Outsourced Self-expression Sites – Cafepress, Printfection, Zazzle, deviantART and a variety of other sites allow users to create and sell their creative works online. Alternatives.

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Web 2.0 Web Sales Outsource Development 222

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We spoke with Jim Franklin , the firm's CEO, to hear more about how the company went from an accelerator startup at TechStars just a few years ago, to now more than 100 employees spread across offices in Boulder; Colorado, Anaheim, California; Frankfurt; London, and elsewhere, to tackle the problems of transactional email. What is Sendgrid?

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Email Startup IP Newsletter 157

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. Customers line up to believe and buy from people who are viewed as leaders or experts relative to a specific solution. The big question is how you can beat these odds.

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Outsource Development Social Media Software Review Custom 154

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

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. 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.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Commerce 104

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. Public relations at a startup is a sales process. “Learn from the mistakes of others. 3) Attempt To License An Idea. 7) Hire A Consultant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Start with a service you know and love. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2012

Customer service has always been reactionary, meaning someone 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. Respect your customer’s view of usability.

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Custom Customer Services Startup 97

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

When you are starting a new business, every resource is precious, including time, funding, and people. As your business starts to scale, you can’t do everything manually anymore. The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media.

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Outsource Development Outsource Metrics Technical Review 122

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. Evan Britton: People love looking up who was born on their birthday.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

► August (1) Stay Positive ► July (2) Go Fast, but Don’t Hurry The DNA of an A++ Team ► June (1) Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space ▼ May (3) Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advert. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Thank you, John.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We caught up with James Segil , the firm's President, to hear the story behind that big growth at the company. Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I’m currently working with several startups, helping them launch new web businesses. What keeps you up at night? Or they need to be going into a scaling up mode.

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Los Angeles Product Angel Startup 179

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

We caught up with founder and CEO Grant Kirkwood --a serial entrepreneur and veteran of providing infrastructure to the enterprise markets--on the vision behind the company. What we do, is we build them private, cloud infrastructure, and make it available in an easy to consume web portal. Explain to us what Unitas Global does?

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Cloud Computing Outsource Development Outsource Startup 217

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Start with a service you know and love. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Fallacy: Startup ventures tend to evolve, especially after you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. In order to reasonably assess the size of your addressable market, you must perform a bottoms-up analysis which is based on a number of elemental assumptions. Public relations at a startup is a sales process.

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Entrepreneur Outsource Ideas Technical Review 272

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Start with a service you know and love. business critical success factors entrepreneur services startup'

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Services Startup Training Writing 105

Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2024

There are thousands of grants up for grabs through government website portals, but since this type of financing is designed to support the public, their eligibility criteria tend to be quite specific. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) 🔎 Want to browse the web privately?

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Outsource Development Technical Review Research Writing 207

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. Tell us the story behind how the firm started? We raised $2.1M

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Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

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. John Tomich: We started our company in 2004, and we''re now about ten years old.

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Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203

Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 21, 2010

Almost all of us know that starting a small business can be fun, exciting and thrilling, however it can also be downright scary. First of all, don't start big. It's ironic that the best businesses did not spend a fortune in franchise fees, hire a huge staff, or even start with venture capital funds. Brandon Carl.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 19, 2013

They enjoy discussing their startup ideas and revel in the positive social status afforded entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, they lack the skills, personality and risk profile to successfully start and operate a business. If you are afraid to talk about your startup, you will fail. Four Reasons To Avoid Stealth Mode.

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Cloud Computing Web Entrepreneur Marketing 176

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2016

The report also indicates that customer problem experiences continue to increase, up four percent to 54 percent since the last study. As an adviser to startups, I’m convinced that most understand the need, but many still simply don’t know how to show their customers that extra love and support. Carey School of Business.

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Custom Customer Startup Satisfaction 56

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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Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Social Media Outsource Development 100

Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Once the network infrastructure and external support is in place, companies can receive improved network operational efficiency and free up staff to work on other more important tasks. Companies receiving managed network services tend to experience higher levels of network availability and bandwidth compared to those who do not outsource.

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Networking Services Organization Technical Support 54

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

People can buy anything, look up news, watch videos, and the list goes on and on. App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. TechZulu reaches out to Matt Lucido , founder of Porter, and discuss Porter, LA, and startups. Your chores can be outsourced through Porter.

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Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

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. Respect your customer’s view of usability.

Custom 89

Custom Customer Services High Tech 89

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. I joined ranks with an Austin App developer, taking the role of Creative Director and setting up their design team and process. After directing a film in 2009, I wanted to get back into the design industry.

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Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

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.” Remote employees at companies across the U.S.

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Email Sites Outsource Resource 119

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

The founder of the company is Allan Hundhausen, who is President of the firm, who started working on the technology three years ago, and incorporated FutureDash about a year ago. Google is doing a web presentment tool, taking data from utility companies. I did a spinoff at Conexant, Pictus, where I was the founding CEO.

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Startup OCTANE Outsource Development Google 140

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

and photographer is an online web presence and an order fulfillment partner. We understand you have a technical background and an interesting story on how this started? AS I was working my engineering job, I got obsessed with programming and building a business for the web. building a web site for him. the payroll.

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