Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. He is regarded by many as the number-one authority on virtual staffing and personal outsourcing, and is himself a successful entrepreneur based in the Philippines. Be flexible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. He is regarded by many as the number-one authority on virtual staffing and personal outsourcing, and is himself a successful entrepreneur based in the Philippines. Be flexible.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2011

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , the provider of paperless billing and delivery systems run by John Payne, has inked a deal with 3i Infotech , a business process outsourcing firm focused on billing and payment handling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. He is regarded by many as the number-one authority on virtual staffing and personal outsourcing, and is himself a successful entrepreneur based in the Philippines. Be flexible.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 20, 2015

Rather than directly explaining their value proposition with all the passion and heartfelt stridency that only an entrepreneur can deliver, they outsource this communication to a Public Relations (PR) firm. Rather, it translates into “Passionate Relationships” and passion can never be outsourced. Thought not. PR is not order-taking.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2010

Yahoo said Monday that it is dropping its outsource most of Yahoo Shopping, its comparison shopping to Los Angeles-based PriceGrabber , the firm told its developers Monday. Yahoo Shopping is a comparison shopping site which displays products and prices for different products, including consumer electronics, computer, and related items.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 15, 2010

Sometimes the function being outsourced is just across the street. So what do you outsource: Core or Context or both? There is no impetus to get everything done in-house and not everything is sent offshore for cost savings either. General Counsels, CFOs, HR Management are prime examples. See [link] (more).

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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. Factor in all the cost elements.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2017

The company, which operates a network of online markets for outsourcing biomedical research services and supplies, has raised $24 million in a new round of venture funding. Founding CEO Kevin Lustig said Scientist.com will use the additional cash to expand its operations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2023

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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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 12, 2009

Tuesday, August 18, 2009 -- Driving Efficiencies thru Outsourcing Partnerships. Raj will discuss the shift in companys mindsets in this economic downturn and how IT and Business Process outsourcing is playing a major role in helping firms achieve their financial objectives and drive shareholder value. See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. He is regarded by many as the number-one authority on virtual staffing and personal outsourcing, and is himself a successful entrepreneur based in the Philippines. Be flexible.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2021

Santa Monica-based outsourcing provider TaskUs, founded by Bryce Maddock and Jaspar Weir, had a successful IPO on Friday, raising $304M in an IPO on the Nasdaq. The company was up around 30% in its IPO in trading on Friday, trading as TASK. The company priced its IPO last night at $23 per share, at the midpoint of its $22.00

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

Agoura Hills-based ISWest , a provider of high speed Internet access, colocation, and server hosting, and Los Angeles-based IT outsourcing firm Cal Net, said Thursday that the firms have expanded an alliance to help clients move servers off-site to save money on managing their IT. Details of the expanded partnership were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2019

Irvine-based Alorica , a provider of outsource, business process outsourcing and "customer experience" outsourcing, named Colson Hillier as its new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), the company said on Tuesday. Hillier will lead the company's global marketing and communications efforts, according to the company.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

This is especially important with outsourced development teams. This happens when a founder raises money in an initial round, spends most of it on in-house or outsourced development, and ends up with a product that is 90% done. Specifically, they pay attention to: Is our code scalable and extensible?

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2019

San Diego-based outsourced R&D services marketplace Scientist.com , and venture investor 5AM Ventures said this mroning that the two have tied together to create a new, R&D marketplace for biotech startups associated with 5AM Ventures. FInancial details of the deal were not announced. Scientist.com is one of 5AM's portfolio companies.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2019

San Diego-based Scientist.com , which operates an online marketplace for outsourced research, says it has expanded support to make sure that animal welfare is included in its outsourcing. The company said that the expansion ensures that any non-human animals involved in scientific research are handled ethically and humanely.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2018

Santa Monica-based business outsourcing service provider TaskUs , founded by Bryce Maddock and Jaspar Weir, said this morning that it has raised $250M in an investment round. The investment came from private equity investor Blackstone Group. According to TaskUs, the funding round values the company at $500M. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2020

Irvine-based outsource customer support and experience services provider Alorica claims it plans to hire more than 33,000 people, saying it has added more than 20 new clients in the first half of the year.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2021

This one is using outsourced development, support, outsourced customer relations and more. The company had grown to forty employees and a healthy eight figure gross revenue run rate but has absorbed over $36 million of angel and VC money to do so, and without yet reaching breakeven.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Outsourcing is just another extension of the virtual team concept to people you don’t even know. Almost every startup is a virtual team these days, since most don’t start out with dedicated office space, and some or all members of the team work part-time or out of their own home.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2011

Taskrabbit aims to help “individuals and small businesses in a community outsource their tasks and deliveries.&#. TaskRabbit makes it easy for individuals to keep with their busy lives or businesses to save some money by outsourcing simple tasks. Taskrabbit recognized these problems and sought out to solve them. How does it work?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Los Angeles-based customer experience and business process outsourcing provider TaskUs is expanding its executive team, saying this morning that it has named Robert Hayes as its new Chief Delivery Officer (CDO), and Curt Gooden as its new Chief Information Officer (CIO).

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2017

San Diego-based Scientist.com , a startup which operates a marketplace for outsourced research, has raised $24M in a funding round, the company announced Monday morning. The company's marketplace helps to connect large pharmaceuticals firms with smaller companies willing to offer up outsourcing of pharmaceutical research efforts.

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socalTECH

JULY 1, 2016

Irvine-based business outsourcing provider Alorica said Thursday that it has acquired Expert Global Solutions, Inc. , a provider of outsourced, customer service and financial collections services. EGS was based in Plano, Texas. billion in 2016 revenues, with 48,000 employees in the U.S.,

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Santa Monica-based business process outsourcing provider TaskUs , which has been one of Southern California's fastest growing, tech related companies in the last few years, said on Wednesday that it is moving its headquarters to a space at the Santa Monica airport. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Santa Monica-based TaskUs , the provider of business process outsourcing led by Bryce Maddock and Jaspar Weir, has now passed up 8,000 employees, the company said today. According to the company, it added more than 1,000 additional employees this year.

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socalTECH

MAY 3, 2019

Irvine-based business process outsourcer Alorica said late Thursday evening that it has opened up an office in India, and esablished a new "innovation lab" in the country. According to Alorica, the new innovation lab will be based in Bengaluru, which it will call its "Digital Center of Excellence".

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Alon Schwartz

MAY 20, 2009

This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be on “Navigating the Challenges of Effective Outsourcing”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation discussing topics such as: Outsourcing best practices. Do’s and don’ts of outsourcing. Top mistakes people do when outsourcing. What can and should you outsource?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Wipro provides information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing. Crowdstrike said the partnership will see Wipro offering up CrowdStrike's Falcon platform to its customers worldwide. Financial details of the partnership were not announced. 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

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

San Diego-based outsourced, scientific services marketplace Scientist.com said this morning that it is expanding in the Asia-Pacific region, and has opened up a new office in Tokyo, Japan. According to the firm, it recently created marketplaces for several Japanese pharmaceutical companies.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 28, 2018

Consultants, outsourcing, and scrapping the system. If improving individual steps is not the solution, then scrap the process entirely and attempt to define a way to meet the goal through a differing route, such as outsourcing parts or the entire process, doubling the capacity of a segment of production, or redefining the goal itself.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2014

PipelineRx provides 24 hour, pharmacist coverage to hospitals via telephone, allowing for the outsourcing of pharmacists to help hospitals optimize their staffing. pipelinerx telepharmacy pharmacy outsourcing staffing strategic investment venture capital lifescience medical healthcare' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2016

iQor , a provider of outsourced customer service and support, said Friday that it is planning to hire over 150 people in Simi Valley, as part of a major expansion. Petersberg, Florida--has over 35,000 employees across 18 countries offering up outsource business services. iQor--which is based in St. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2020

San Diego-based outsourced healthcare R&D marketplace Scientist.com said this morning that it will acquire HealthEcnomics.com , which operates an online community of scientists and suppliers of heatlh economics and outcomes research. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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