Acquisition Outsource Product Sales 
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Products that can be easily produced and sold via multiple channels, including the Internet, are more easily scaled world-wide. Minimize one-time sales in your business model. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage. Develop a product line and add alternate channels.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 13, 2019
In the interests of helping you work smarter and last longer, I would like to offer my top ten list of key resource drains to avoid in early businesses and startups, based on my years of advising entrepreneurs and my own business experience: Expanding your product line too quickly for scaling. Outsourcing services that could be done in-house.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 9, 2012
You need to understand motives of buyer (talent, product, revenue, strategic purchase) and where you fit in. Outsourcing can be cheap. Both can hurt you in an acquisition. Don’t put all your eggs in the “corp dev basket” – often deals are champions by the business units (product or sales).
InfoChachkie
OCTOBER 13, 2009
Sales – Many publishers, including Grit, encouraged newspaper boys to create new routes and expand existing ones by aggressively selling subscriptions to non-subscribers. This pay-per-newspaper formula directly rewarded the children’s sales efforts and sparked a life-long entrepreneurial fire in generations of newspaper boys.
socalTECH
APRIL 30, 2018
The business model, is people use this to do better marketing and sales targeting when they sell their own products. The company has grown very rapidly and well for a startup, but we're now at the point where sales is the name of the game. I've been in product, product development, marketing, and management.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 12, 2014
If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. Who are your ideal customers and market? Our clients like that a lot.
InfoChachkie
MAY 16, 2011
As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. 1) Expect Independent Channel Sales Reps To Perform Missionary Sales. Rationale: I cannot afford to hire a direct sales force.
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