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Don’t Pay Bribes to Get International Expansion

Startup Professionals Musings

In practice that meant that we could once again focus on running our sales and service activities. Dealing with the bureaucrats for permits and licenses was once again outsourced to expeditors specialized in these areas. The new regulations now permitted so-called ‘facilitating payments to petty bureaucrats’.

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Is “management by walking around” an outmoded fad?

Berkonomics

One of the CEOs I used to coach started his day by walking the floor of his extended facility and checking in with managers and employees of the various departments, especially the call center. In this age of remote workforces, self–managed contractors and employees, outsourced call centers and development, is this a dying art?

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Sensitive Payments in the International Arena

Startup Professionals Musings

In practice that meant that we could once again focus on running our sales and service activities. Dealing with the bureaucrats for permits and licenses was once again outsourced to expeditors specialized in these areas. The new regulations now permitted so-called ‘facilitating payments to petty bureaucrats’.

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Is management by walking around an outmoded fad?

Berkonomics

One of the CEOs I coach starts his day by walking the floor of his extended facility and checking in with managers and employees of the various departments, especially the call center. In this age of remote work forces, self–managed contractors and employees, outsourced call centers and development, is this a dying art?

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

Activities As I went through my 30+ different startup experiences and tried to classify them a bit more, I realized this is very messy stuff. That said, I think it starts with what a laundry list of different kinds of needed technology activities and what the current team can reasonably accomplish.