Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Use marketing, blogging, and industry conferences to get the message out. The trend toward more remote work, flexible work hours, and outsourcing can eliminate productive work relationships and communication between functions. Building and maintaining a winning work culture is no longer just a function of the office.

Satisfaction 108

Satisfaction Outsource Study Platform 108

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

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. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements.

Startup 111

Startup Training Services Writing 111

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

You can’t outsource that one. Not just degrees, but loading up on books, business journals, and blogs that your top executive favors. The truly indispensable person in a startup is a problem solver, because every startup has plenty of problems. Very few people are willing and able to take on any challenge, and make it work.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 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.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Startup 40

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

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. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements.

Startup 174

Startup Training Services Writing 174

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Use the Internet to outsource staff. Audience contributions, like product reviews, discussion board conversations, and comments on your blog are invaluable because they create more credible content and attract more money from advertisers. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 124

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Customer feedback, including blog comments, usability reviews, and early user testimonials, build relationships and provide credible marketing to the broader customer community. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage. Collaborate with customers to tune your solution.

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Outsource Development Social Media Software Review Customer 154

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Early-stage companies shouldn’t: outsource core product development, have consulting firms build it for them to speed up time-to-market, shouldn’t hire too many business people until product is complete and early product/market fit tested. Engineering is critical but it is not everything. What you agree / disagree with.

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Startup Slides Outsource Development Sales 388

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Don’t assume you can outsource the implementation decisions. Build your own personal brand image through blogging, industry forums, and networking. Yet there are clearly some positive steps I can recommend for getting you (and him) over the bridge: Find a co-founder who has been there and done that.

Ideas 126

Ideas Writing Examples Outsource 126

Xconomy

APRIL 3, 2019

The company does early-stage drug research for biopharma companies, biotechs, government agencies, and academia; it claims to have done outsourced work for each of the 100 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Charles River says it was involved with about 85 percent of the drugs.

San Diego 59

San Diego Outsource Development Research Outsource 59

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

I understand you managed to get funding through interest from a blog post? Fred had been blog posting about this problem, about how he spent a whole day getting off of email lists he was on. We came out with it a little earlier than we would have wanted, because Fred wanted to blog about it. What are you doing with that funding?

Newsletter 216

Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

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.

Marketing 233

Marketing Blogging Startup Venture Capital 233

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2019

You can’t outsource that one. Not just degrees, but loading up on books, business journals, and blogs that your top executive favors. The truly indispensable person in a startup is a problem solver, because every startup has plenty of problems. Very few people are willing and able to take on any challenge, and make it work.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I also blog at [link] and you can find me on twitter: @gilbola. It’s very difficult to communicate the value of my services and it’s even harder to find people/companies looking to outsource their product development to a business guy like myself. I have shied away from taking favorites in my blog or anywhere public.

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Los Angeles Product Angel Startup 179

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology.

CTO Hire 400

CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Use the Internet to outsource staff. Audience contributions, like product reviews, discussion board conversations, and comments on your blog are invaluable because they create more credible content and attract more money from advertisers. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 97

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Use the Internet to outsource staff. Audience contributions, like product reviews, discussion board conversations, and comments on your blog are invaluable because they create more credible content and attract more money from advertisers. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Startup 107

Startup Technical Review Case Study Software Review 107

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

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. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements.

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I will use this blog to talk about topic I believe are of interest to many technology entrepreneurs which is a group I found to be quite unrepresented. These topics range from tips for successful outsourcing, SEO tips, why.Net (or why not), how to get a great team, and many others. More coming soon.

SEO 40

SEO Tips Outsource Blogging 40

Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I will use this blog to talk about topic I believe are of interest to many technology entrepreneurs which is a group I found to be quite unrepresented. These topics range from tips for successful outsourcing, SEO tips, why.Net (or why not), how to get a great team, and many others. More coming soon.

SEO 40

SEO Tips Outsource Blogging 40

Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I will use this blog to talk about topic I believe are of interest to many technology entrepreneurs which is a group I found to be quite unrepresented. These topics range from tips for successful outsourcing, SEO tips, why.Net (or why not), how to get a great team, and many others. More coming soon.

SEO 40

SEO Tips Outsource Blogging 40

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

You can’t outsource that one. Not just degrees, but loading up on books, business journals, and blogs that your top executive favors. The truly indispensible person in a startup is a problem solver, because every startup has plenty of problems. Very few people are willing and able to take on any challenge, and make it work.

Startup 103

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

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. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements.

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2017

You can’t outsource that one. Not just degrees, but loading up on books, business journals, and blogs that your top executive favors. The truly indispensable person in a startup is a problem solver, because every startup has plenty of problems. Very few people are willing and able to take on any challenge, and make it work.

Startup 58

Startup Journal Outsource Tips 58

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Hulme, blogging at Cloud Commons , believes that the cloud will spur a jobs explosion, though the jobs descriptions will differ. And there’s little financial risk involved in adopting a cloud solution, whether you need cloud storage, application hosting or some combination.

Cloud Computing 85

Cloud Computing Marketing CIO Organization 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Use the Internet to outsource staff. Audience contributions, like product reviews, discussion board conversations, and comments on your blog are invaluable because they create more credible content and attract more money from advertisers. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Case Study 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

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. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

Businesses that don’t outsource network maintenance tasks put the onus on their internal teams, which can quickly max out their bandwidth. Managing a network infrastructure can be time consuming and take IT staff focus away from other business objectives. Addressing Security Concerns.

Networking 88

Networking Services Design Demand 88

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I thought about a blog post I discovered via Tim Ferriss about how important it is to cultivate the first 1000 fans of your brand. One mastermind focuses on how to outsource development and programming. You can read it here. The hardest part about being a business owner is how to attract those initial paying customers.

Mixergy 70

Mixergy Outsource Development Outsource Conference 70

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2012

You can’t outsource that one. Not just degrees, but loading up on books, business journals, and blogs that your top executive favors. The truly indispensible person in a startup is a problem solver, because every startup has plenty of problems. Very few people are willing and able to take on any challenge, and make it work.

Startup 92

Startup Journal Outsource Tips 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

Use the Internet to outsource staff. Audience contributions, like product reviews, discussion board conversations, and comments on your blog are invaluable because they create more credible content and attract more money from advertisers. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Technical Review 99

Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

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.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2011

You can’t outsource that one. Not just degrees, but loading up on books, business journals, and blogs that your top executive favors. The truly indispensible person in a startup is a problem solver, because every startup has plenty of problems. Very few people are willing and able to take on any challenge, and make it work.

Startup 91

Startup Journal Outsource Tips 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

It’s getting tougher and tougher to outsource this tone and technology to other cultures halfway around the globe. Marty Zwilling Disclosure: This blog entry sponsored by Visa Business and I received compensation for my time from Visa for sharing my views in this post, but the views expressed here are solely mine, not Visa''s.

Customer 89

Customer Custom Services High Tech 89

Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Companies receiving managed network services tend to experience higher levels of network availability and bandwidth compared to those who do not outsource. Improved Network Quality. MNSPs can provide companies with the knowledge and expertise needed to optimize their infrastructure.

Networking 54

Networking Services Organization Technical Support 54

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic. The former was outsourced, the latter was our own team. It is encapsulated in one of my favorite quotes that I first heard from Bruce Dunlevie of Benchmark Captial , “Good judgment comes from experience, but experience comes from bad judgment&#.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

That means forget using interns or outsourcing this function. Marty Zwilling Disclosure: This blog entry sponsored by Visa Business and I received compensation for my time from Visa for sharing my views in this post, but the views expressed here are solely mine, not Visa''s. You need insider “deciders” here.

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Social Media Customer Custom Media 99