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7 Workplace Culture Dynamics That You Need to Support

Startup Professionals Musings

Use marketing, blogging, and industry conferences to get the message out. The trend toward more remote work, flexible work hours, and outsourcing can eliminate productive work relationships and communication between functions. You must regularly host online meetings, as well as external networking and team-building exercises.

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7 Ways Your People Skills Are The Key To Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Practice being a good communicator.

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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Practice being a good communicator.

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How to Configure Your Startup Team

Both Sides of the Table

Early-stage companies shouldn’t: outsource core product development, have consulting firms build it for them to speed up time-to-market, shouldn’t hire too many business people until product is complete and early product/market fit tested. Engineering is critical but it is not everything. What you agree / disagree with.

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5 Steps To Get You From Your First Idea To A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t assume you can outsource the implementation decisions. Build your own personal brand image through blogging, industry forums, and networking. Yet there are clearly some positive steps I can recommend for getting you (and him) over the bridge: Find a co-founder who has been there and done that.

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Growing A Services Business Requires Selling Yourself

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Practice being a good communicator.

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The Most Important Panel You’ll Ever Attend | SXSW 2012

Tech Zulu Event

This year’s South By South West conference in Austin, Texas, is days away. Los Angeles’s very own Espree Devora (aka The Girl That Gets It Done ), has put together quite the exciting event for this year’s SXSW conference. One mastermind focuses on how to outsource development and programming.

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