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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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10 Strategies To Find That Rare Complementary Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, they can outsource part of the work or hire employees, but that approach means more time and money to manage the work, which they don’t have. Yet from my own years of experience in the startup community, here are ten common steps that have worked for other entrepreneurs: Write a "job description" for that ideal partner.

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10 Keys To Building Unstoppable Startup Partnerships

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, they can outsource part of the work or hire employees, but that approach means more time and money to manage the work, which they don’t have. Yet from my own years of experience in the startup community, here are ten common steps that have worked for other entrepreneurs: Write a "job description" for that ideal partner.

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7 Business Mistakes Serial Entrepreneurs Never Make (Twice)

InfoChachkie

As an entrepreneur, I helped create companies which achieved two IPOs and two trade sales totaling $385 million. No one has heard of you, your company or your solutions. Rationale: A cooperative relationship with a big company will significantly enhance my startup’s chances of success. Grant Exclusivity. Grant Exclusivity.

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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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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

companies should… focus on building amazing products. I recently spoke with Brad about his approach to guerilla marketing and how he instills eclectic marketing tactics in Foundry Group’s portfolio companies. Chris is the CEO of Gnip , a Foundry Group portfolio company. If you have $hitty products, the marketing is impossible.

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