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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

Saving cost won’t help you if you can’t make the daily innovations required to stay competitive. It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

Saving cost won’t help you if you can’t make the daily innovations required to stay competitive. It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

Saving cost wont help you if you cant make the daily innovations required to stay competitive. Its hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. core competency entrepreneur near shoring offshoring outsource startup' Marty Zwilling.

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6 Ways To Prevent Disastrous Outsourcing Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

Saving cost won’t help you if you can’t make the daily innovations required to stay competitive. It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

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. Let’s assume an early-stage company around for 2 years with limited traction. Sarah Lacy did.

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

Both Sides of the Table

In many ways I think general purpose writing & thinking skills are as valuable as math skills. 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.

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Five Keys to Our Long Term Survival

Berkonomics

Bill has survived multiple cycles in the game industry, and writes here his thoughts about his longevity in a volatile niche. I’ve gotten into a bit of a hole in the past few years because of the slowdown, but always tried to bend over backward to help people out and treat them as well as possible.

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