Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective. He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of cofounders: The technical guru.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Of course, you can always take more business classes at school, or on the side, but that’s not as cost and time effective these days as doing it, with a little help from the internet and a friendly advisor like me. Learn more about business by doing versus studying. Make it a fun experience by making something you love be more than a hobby.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective. He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of partners: The technical guru.

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Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective. He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of cofounders: The technical guru.

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Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 98

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

The actual investment professionals (partners) are too busy to call companies that they’re interested in so they basically outsource it. But how can you really outsource judgment to young, smart people who have often never worked in businesses? What disrespect they show founders / CEOs with these programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2010

Advanced persistence threats (APT) – opens the door to a new class of intelligent application cracking tools. Contractor, temp, or outsource worker off site. Phishing bait – Facebook was a lure into FBAction and fbstarter.com Shortened links (bit.ly and tinyurl) obfuscate sources, masking malware installs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Luckily, he had a world class team of more than two dozen committed people ( including Mike Fisher from PayPal/eBay ) who stuck it out with him. He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. I also tell people that if they do go to make sure that they don’t spend all of their free time trying to graduate top of their class.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Being in business since I was 18 years old has led to a lot of conferences, meetings, mixers, classes, tradeshows and after parties. Let me explain why this company had such an impact on my life. I meet A LOT of people. Some have called me a “super connector”. On all these occasions I meet people and get a card.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). Dec 26, 2009). Recently I cleaned out and organized our basement.

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? I guess this is how a world-class firm like Sequoia Capital finds and invests in world-class companies such as Google, Yahoo!, FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3. I think this list is spot on.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? When companies wanted first class advertising placement and high-end marketing technology, we were the place to come. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Im working with a top-notch, first class, A++ team ( Craig, Duc and Julie ) -- that just happened to fall into place. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3. So, the "what" is simple.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Blue-chip customers such as Intuit, Williams-Sonoma, Fox Sports/MSN, Ticketmaster, Glaxo Smith Kline, Clear Channel, WebEx and Netflix turn to StrongMail infrastructure to bring enterprise-class reliability to their email systems. A BIG THANK YOU.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Every person on my team was A-class. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3. Virtual Location, Location, Location ► January (2) 2. Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product?

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