Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Don’t assume you can outsource the implementation decisions. I find the best business plans are not books, but may actually should start as a one-page “elevator pitch” that succinctly encompasses your business goals, problems and solution, opportunity, competition, and business model. Build a strong team around you and learn from them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2019

Here are some tips from a classic book by Harvey Mackay, “ Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door ,” which work even better in a startup than they do in a bigger company: Make yourself indispensable. You can’t outsource that one. Not just degrees, but loading up on books, business journals, and blogs that your top executive favors.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="[link] frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The catalyst for Brad’s evolving view of marketing was THIS blog entry by Chris Moody in which he pointed out that much of Foundry Group’s thought leadership efforts are essentially a form of guerilla marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

There are also many other good sources of guidance, including the classic book “ Click Millionaires ” by Scott Fox. Use the Internet to outsource staff. See what other people are offering, and think about a niche where you could be unique, and have some fun at the same time. Generate revenue around the clock.

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Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 97

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

There are also many other good sources of guidance, including the classic book “ Click Millionaires ” by Scott Fox. Use the Internet to outsource staff. See what other people are offering, and think about a niche where you could be unique, and have some fun at the same time. Generate revenue around the clock.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Here are some tips from a book by Harvey Mackay a while back, titled “ Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door ,” which work even better in a startup than they do in a bigger company: Make yourself indispensible. You can’t outsource that one. Very few people are willing and able to take on any challenge, and make it work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2017

Here are some tips from a classic book by Harvey Mackay, “ Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door ,” which work even better in a startup than they do in a bigger company: Make yourself indispensable. You can’t outsource that one. Not just degrees, but loading up on books, business journals, and blogs that your top executive favors.

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Startup Journal Outsource Tips 58

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2012

Here are some tips from a book by Harvey Mackay a while back, titled “ Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door ,” which work even better in a startup than they do in a bigger company: Make yourself indispensible. You can’t outsource that one. Very few people are willing and able to take on any challenge, and make it work.

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Startup Journal Outsource Tips 92

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. 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. But I believe much of it can be learned from reading great books, reading online and testing out the principles yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2011

Here are some tips from a recent book by Harvey Mackay, titled “ Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door ,” which work even better in a startup than they do in a bigger company: Make yourself indispensible. You can’t outsource that one. Very few people are willing and able to take on any challenge, and make it work.

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Startup Journal Outsource Tips 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

There are now many resources out there to guide you on building social media into your business and improving your customer experience, including the book from multicultural marketing expert Kelly McDonald, “ Crafting the Customer Experience for People Not Like You.” That means forget using interns or outsourcing this function.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

As a last resort I outsourced and actually hired someone in India to remotely log into my computer during the night and correct all the errors from the scanned cards, which my in house team had processed earlier in the day. Over 50,000 journalists use HARO to find experts to interview for TV, newspapers, books, magazines and blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

There are also many other good sources of guidance, including the new book “ Click Millionaires ” by Scott Fox. Use the Internet to outsource staff. See what other people are offering, and think about a niche where you could be unique, and have some fun at the same time. Generate revenue around the clock.

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Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

I found a good summary of these new expectations in a book recently published by Micah Solomon, “ High-tech, High-touch Customer Service.” It’s getting tougher and tougher to outsource this tone and technology to other cultures halfway around the globe. You and your staff need to regularly use your self-service channels.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic. If you’re a startup or product person and haven’t read his book Four Steps to Epiphany please do. The former was outsourced, the latter was our own team. And let’s be clear. “9 women behavior&# is not restricted to just fund raising.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Other entry-level experiences for budding entrepreneurs included selling items marketed in comic book ads. The American Seed Company, as shown in the accompany ad, encouraged young people to sign a simple “contract” that read: “Please send me your Big Prize book and one order of 45 packs of American Seeds. I’ll sell them at 20?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2010

Here are some tips from a recent book by Harvey Mackay, titled “ Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door ,” which work just as well in a startup as they do in a bigger company: Make yourself indispensible. You can’t outsource that one. Very few people are willing and able to take on any challenge, and make it work.

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Tips Startup Journal Outsource 49

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

” But I pointed out a professor at HBS ( Tom Eisenmann ) who teaches a course where blogs are a part of the classroom reading material. But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations. We had a brief chat on his views of “Freemium.”

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming(Waite Group Press, 1996). where her clients included global leaders in the outsourcing and telecom sectors and a number of prominent non-profits.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

The user generated content on MySpace is user profiles, updates, blogs and pictures. Leverage a worldwide community to enable a perfect market for outsourcing activities like online research, writing, & content review. The book is an incredible accounting of the history of MySpace. Hustle & Chutzpa.

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Development Team Review Content Sites eHow 76

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Outsourcing 1.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. million members who have added over 270 million books, completely by word of mouth.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. I've also read his book The Four Steps to the Epiphany, where he outlines this in great detail. Give yourself a month. Keep the day job.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ▼ April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? A BIG THANK YOU.

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? A BIG THANK YOU.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? A BIG THANK YOU.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. If you get a moment, as a favor to John for having produced such wonderful notes I’d be grateful if you would check out his most excellent startup blog The X Factor. I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? A BIG THANK YOU.

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