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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

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They say “haste makes waste” but…

Berkonomics

Here’s an example some of remember well… A marginal example was the Intel release of the Pentium Pro and new Pentium II processor to rave reviews – until a math professor found an obscure error in the chip’s code that made a rare floating-point calculation error. Where was the waste?

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CapLinked Adds Activity Analytics

socalTECH

the developer of enterprise software for managing M&A transactions, venture deals, and other business deals, said yesterday that it has launched a new, activity tracker, which helps its customers figure out who has viewed files and information in the service, filterable by date range and more.

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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

A good overall example is the synergy between Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, as well as long-time Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Carry minimal historical baggage.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? What are some examples of similar brands? For example, you might want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need?

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Haste makes waste; but to lag is to sag.

Berkonomics

A marginal example was the Intel release of the Pentium Pro and new Pentium II processor to rave reviews – until a math professor found an obscure error in the chip’s code that made a rare floating-point calculation error. The waste from haste in this example was in not pre-thinking of enough testing scenarios for a new product.

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7 Ethical Fictions Lead Many New Entrepreneurs Astray

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, people often do not automatically know that they are facing an ethical choice. Deal with this myth by sharing with colleagues some of the highly practical tools for making sense of the issue – such as ethics audits, behavior codes, risk strategies, targeted training and leadership guidance. Ethics can’t be managed.