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8 Keys To The Winning Mix Of Full-Time and Gig Talent

Startup Professionals Musings

With contract players, you assume a project duration, with easy transition to new players for the next campaign. For example, if your first scaling effort is a global one, you should be prioritizing “global launch experience.” In addition, more people in the workforce don’t want to be resident employees.

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8 Steps To Assembling The Most Talented Startup Team

Startup Professionals Musings

With contract players, you assume a project duration, with easy transition to new players for the next campaign. For example, if your first scaling effort is a global one, you should be prioritizing “global launch experience.” At the same time, more people in the workplace don’t want to be “employees.”

Demand 92
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Why Focusing on Only One Buyer Will Lose You Sales

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of a series that describes a sales methodology for technology companies or frankly many other types of companies, too. We developed this at our first company and called it PUCCKA – the overall methodology is described here. This post talks about the “K” or Key Players involved in a buying decision.

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Ten Rookie Startup Mistakes You Won’t Make

InfoChachkie

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”. Eleanor Roosevelt – US Diplomat & Wife of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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Build On-Demand Teams Instead of Hiring Employees

Startup Professionals Musings

With contract players, you assume a project duration, with easy transition to new players for the next campaign. For example, if your first scaling effort is a global one, you should be prioritizing “global launch experience.” Focus on deliverables and skills required right now.

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Can You Build Your Business on Somebody Else’s Platform?

Both Sides of the Table

Many of you will know that Twitter unexpectedly cancelled it’s contract to allow DataSift to resell Twitter data to 3rd parties. I read the declarations by industry analysts on Twitter that this was “proof that you can’t build a business on somebody else’s platform” and perhaps DataSift should have known better.

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Interview with Damir Davidovic, NEOGOV

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It's surprising how often we run into rapidly growing companies that not many people have heard of, here in Southern California, but that's the case with El Segundo-based. NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. What is Neogov?