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7 Ways Your People Skills Are The Key To Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Capture your “secret sauce.” Start with a service you know and love.

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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Capture your “secret sauce.” Start with a service you know and love.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

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Rejecting the paint-by-numbers approach to corporate communications deployed by most marketing executives, Brad has embraced unconventional guerilla marketing tactics to help establish his venture capital firm, Foundry Group, as a thought leader in early-stage tech investing. companies should… focus on building amazing products.

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Growing A Services Business Requires Selling Yourself

Startup Professionals Musings

Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Capture your “secret sauce.” Start with a service you know and love.

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7 Critical Success Factors For A Services Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Capture your “secret sauce.” Start with a service you know and love.

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Startups Providing A Service Are Difficult To Scale

Startup Professionals Musings

Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Capture your “secret sauce.” Start with a service you know and love.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I had to laugh a bit reading it. So back to MBAs.

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