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5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Transforming Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Outsourcing the entirety of building a new system. Outsourcing may look like a quick and easy solution, but you can’t let a partner or supplier drive your business strategy and direction, and it will never absolve you of the responsibility of providing business success. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 1/9/2023

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5 Key Growth Initiatives In This Inflationary Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

Respond to new market shifts and opportunities. Outsource functions outside your core competency. I see a new resurgence of outsourcing alternatives from outside the country as well as inside, driven by freelancers caught in the squeeze. Selective outsourcing can save you real money. Make it a win on all fronts.

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6 Mindset Factors Turn Constraints Into Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

In reality, based on my experience as a startup advisor and investor, these constraints lead the best entrepreneurs to the most innovative solutions and new markets otherwise overlooked by their peers and competitors. Outsourcing of manufacturing is another option. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/19/2023

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5 Keys To The Culture Change Required For Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my years of experience as a business executive and consultant, I am convinced that most companies gradually lose their ability to be creative as they mature, and over time are overcome by new competitors and market changes. Continuous innovation is a mindset that you cannot outsource, or bring in through acquisition or consultants.