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7 Government Small Business Grants to Apply For in May 2024

Tech.Co

Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) 🔎 Want to browse the web privately? 8(a) Business Development Program For: Socially and economically disadvantaged business owners Funding limit: $7 million for acquisitions assigned manufacturing NAICS codes and $4.5

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10 Ways Owners Often Jeopardize Their Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media. Yet I still see expense budgets based on traditional channels, with no strict metrics on cost of customer acquisition by channel, or lifetime customer value. Excessive support and return activities.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

This reduces the cost of customer acquisition, allows easy upgrades for service and new features, and improves customer loyalty in the face of new competitors in the market. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage. Prioritize mergers and acquisitions early.

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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

Outsourced Self-expression Sites – Cafepress, Printfection, Zazzle, deviantART and a variety of other sites allow users to create and sell their creative works online. Although paperboys decreasingly delivered morning papers, the early hours, hazardous conditions (e.g., Alternatives. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

SoCal CTO

Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. They most often really just need either a Part-Time CTO or Technology Advisor , and then some combination of hiring and/or outsourcing (on-shore or off-shore).

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. I am still a big fan of outsourcing. Startup 3.0:

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7 Business Mistakes Serial Entrepreneurs Never Make (Twice)

InfoChachkie

Note: There are clearly routine tasks which can be effectively outsourced at a startup, including those which: (i) do not require a significant time investment on the part of the entrepreneur to educate the outsourcer or, (ii) no institutional knowledge is gained by the outsourcer which could be critical to the venture’s success.