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Maintain Your Startup Motivation While Working Harder

Startup Professionals Musings

Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. Re-live that moment of inspiration that resulted in an innovative design and implementation for your product, and is now providing you with a sustainable competitive advantage. Celebrate the ability to pay yourself a salary.

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Balance Your Focus Between Passion And Perspiration

Startup Professionals Musings

Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. Re-live that moment of inspiration that resulted in an innovative design and implementation for your product, and is now providing you with a sustainable competitive advantage. Celebrate the ability to pay yourself a salary.

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5 Tips To Keep Your Startup Productive, Not Just Busy

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m a total believer in servant leadership and mentoring others, but nobody wins when you are in charge as an entrepreneur, and the business fails because you didn’t do your job. Don’t forget the wealth of “gig” experts for outsourcing at a low cost. Prioritize your tasks ahead of helping others with theirs.

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

Startup Professionals Musings

His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. Don’t assume you can outsource the implementation decisions. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D. in Physics who talks passionately about starting a business producing nuclear powered batteries. Yes, there are a lot of bridges to cross.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Outsourcing By Frank Addante (Part 5 of a 5 part series: " So, you need to develop a product? ") Outsourcing has become a popular topic and practice these days. I have been outsourcing to India since before it became popular. A BIG THANK YOU.

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How To Enjoy Your Business Dream As Well As The Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. Re-live that moment of inspiration that resulted in an innovative design and implementation for your product, and is now providing you with a sustainable competitive advantage. Celebrate the ability to pay yourself a salary.

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What do we build in-house or outsource? What other kinds of capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA will we need? How can we phase development to balance cost, features, risk, etc?