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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

So before you decide to move your manufacturing, software development, or call center out of town, make sure you understand the following considerations: Don’t give someone else control of your competitive advantage. Saving cost won’t help you if you can’t make the daily innovations required to stay competitive.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

So before you decide to move your manufacturing, software development, or call center out of town, make sure you understand the following considerations: Don’t give someone else control of your competitive advantage. Saving cost won’t help you if you can’t make the daily innovations required to stay competitive.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. In a perfect world they’d be in your home office but this is one area where I feel remote tools can help bridge gaps. What about offshoring? I have another exception.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

So before you decide to move your manufacturing, software development, or call center out of town, make sure you understand the following considerations: Dont give someone else control of your competitive advantage. Saving cost wont help you if you cant make the daily innovations required to stay competitive.

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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

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I believe, though, that they need to be taught more in the context of helping people develop meaningful careers that position them to succeed financially in the changing world in which we live. We also spoke about technology systems in the perspective of global competition. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed).

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6 Ways To Prevent Disastrous Outsourcing Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

So before you decide to move your manufacturing, software development, or call center out of town, make sure you understand the following considerations: Don’t give someone else control of your competitive advantage. Saving cost won’t help you if you can’t make the daily innovations required to stay competitive.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

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Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. David Sacks, Max Levchin, Dennis Crowley, Keith Rabois] will stay and help lead their company in a totally new direction. Get yourself in a big demo day competition. Most founders stay the least amount of time they can.

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