Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Specialized services, such as accounting, require skilled people, training, and tools, and do not scale well. This reduces the cost of customer acquisition, allows easy upgrades for service and new features, and improves customer loyalty in the face of new competitors in the market. Facilitate rapid growth through contracted resources.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 13, 2019
People with the wrong tools or no training. It’s no secret that some people are more productive than others, due to skills, training, or commitment. Yet I still see expense budgets based on traditional channels, with no strict metrics on cost of customer acquisition by channel, or lifetime customer value.
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Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 15, 2021
Conventional hiring strategies usually follow a vanilla approach to talent acquisition. With contract players, you assume a project duration, with easy transition to new players for the next campaign. Projects need not be constrained by organizational boundaries, long-term budgeting, or conventional staffing and training practices.
Frank Addante
MAY 12, 2007
► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:
socalTECH
OCTOBER 20, 2011
Back in 2003 and 2004, we were focused on the international market, and started outsourcing to India and the Philippines for call center services. In terms of tactics, we went from 20-odd people at the company to just three people, myself and two developers. How did acquisition come about? Where did turnaround point come around?
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 24, 2018
Conventional hiring strategies usually follow a vanilla approach to talent acquisition. With contract players, you assume a project duration, with easy transition to new players for the next campaign. Projects need not be constrained by organizational boundaries, long-term budgeting, or conventional staffing and training practices.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 26, 2016
Conventional hiring strategies usually follow a vanilla approach to talent acquisition. With contract players, you assume a project duration, with easy transition to new players for the next campaign. Projects need not be constrained by organizational boundaries, long-term budgeting, or conventional staffing and training practices.
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