I attended a Bay Area business session last week on funding models for cash-starved times.  It was a great lineup of speakers including both partners from largest silicon valley VC firms and startup founders from fotki and friendster, very energetic crowd.  2 takeaways to share:

• investors these days are looking to fund startups that has the creativity/potential to go to market faster and cheaper. 
• there's never been a better time to launch a startup, boot strap - there's never been more leverage and resources available: opensource technology, SaaS offerings, and quality development partners with cost advantage (like Relaystrategy, for example ).

Right now, around 75% of our businesses are from startups and small businesses. We can feel the significant increase in entrepreneurs that are doing something about their ideas. A lot of exciting and innovative web development ideas around social networks, SaaS products, platform driven web apps (such as twitter and facebook), and online tools - almost everything under development is using opensource resources.  I could not agree more with the general sentiment from the bizsession. 

As a technology services company, our team have thoroughly appreciated and enjoyed the collaboration with these startups/small businesses - because of them, our business model is also becoming leaner, more efficient, and a whole lot more creative.

Building a technology services company from the ground up sure takes a lot of work.

The entrepreneurial voyage is exciting, and can be fueled organically by the experience itself – getting new business, welcoming passionate new talents, expanding on capabilities and portfolios, building solid domain knowledge, working on cutting edge technology, and improving our process and methodology.

Then again, every single one of RelayStrategy’s employees can also attest to many moments of being extended more than imagined possible – long days, lack of sleep, fire drills, carpal tunnel, and stress of doing whatever it takes to meet a timeline.

At the end of the day, one thing is for sure: nothing is more assuring and satisfying than having happy, reference-able customers returning to give us repeat work.

So, we are basing our core mission on that – to build successful long term relationships with our customers by delivering quality, cost effective, and timely solutions to help them become successful in their goals and objectives.

We are committed to do this for every customer.

RelayStrategy has been a year in the making, and we are excited to start a blog and share with the world, and even more excited that you decided to stop by and check us out.

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