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. Make sure that every interaction with every customer is positive, the service delivered is exemplary, and always follow-up for reference and repeat business. Are you ready to make it happen?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Entrepreneurs seem to have blinders on when looking at competitors. Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. entrepreneurs startup strategic partners tough competitors' Willing to learn from each other.

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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. Make sure that every interaction with every customer is positive, the service delivered is exemplary, and always follow-up for reference and repeat business. Are you ready to make it happen?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2016

Entrepreneurs seem to have blinders on when looking at competitors. Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. Benchmark your practices against a true peer. Willing to learn from each other. Marty Zwilling.

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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. Make sure that every interaction with every customer is positive, the service delivered is exemplary, and always follow-up for reference and repeat business. Are you ready to make it happen?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

You need to demonstrate innovative approaches, more knowledge, more productivity and superior results to get the references you need. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. Another reality is that angel investors and venture capital groups almost never invest in a services-only company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You need to demonstrate innovative approaches, more knowledge, more productivity and superior results to get the references you need. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. Another reality is that angel investors and venture capital groups almost never invest in a services-only company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. And probably some money.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

By prints, I am referring to anything that hangs on a wall, whether that's a framed photo, framed canvas, acrylic. I had built the entire thing without outside capital, and with no credit. In addition, we outsource the actual production of prints to companies around the U.S. had their first sales, which made us profitable.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Back to Mr. Christensen, “We subsidize their education in fields for which there are no jobs” he said in referring to the fact that many courses at universities are still taught with skills that aren’t relevant to the 21st century needs of the US workforce. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed).

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Google’s market capitalization is in the stratosphere for a reason – keyword search advertising is highly effective. Tags: Entrepreneur Strategic Planning The Fringe. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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