Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Recruit only the best people, with the right base skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Recruit only the best people, with the right base skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. Running a new company cannot always be a consensus-driven process, especially when hard decisions need to be made that affect everybody’s lives. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ► September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. I am still a big fan of outsourcing.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. Running a new company cannot always be a consensus-driven process, especially when hard decisions need to be made that affect everybody’s lives. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

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. Rationale: My company is small, I am super busy and I am not a lawyer. No one has heard of you, your company or your solutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Recruit only the best people, with the right base skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. Running a new company cannot always be a consensus-driven process, especially when hard decisions need to be made that affect everybody’s lives. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. Running a new company cannot always be a consensus-driven process, especially when hard decisions need to be made that affect everybody’s lives. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. Common choices include manufacturing in-house, outsourcing, off-the-shelf parts. Test your projections against actual published reports from similar companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Recruit only the best people, with the right base skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

A business plan is an “outward facing” document for external investors, or for C-level executives within your own company. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Competition analysis. Market research and competition. Market research. Development and rollout.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2013

Before going through the expensive process of sourcing, recruiting, and hiring an employee, look into outsourcing, especially for non-core functions such as HR, accounting, and legal. Pricing is an art, a challenging art. For more information on pricing, see my previous post 6 Pricing Tips for Your product/Service.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

As noted in parts I and II of this series, agreements with Big Dumb Companies (BDCs) can be alluring and potentially fatal. This series describes how entrepreneurs can craft company-changing agreements with BDCs, while avoiding Kiss of Death contract provisions. Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Recruit only the best people, with the right base skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. Common choices include manufacturing in-house, outsourcing, off-the-shelf parts. Test your projections against actual published reports from similar companies.

Sales 98

Sales Customer Custom Outsource 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

A business plan is an “outward facing” document for external investors, or for C-level executives within your own company. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Competition analysis. Market research and competition. Market research. Development and rollout.

Product 93

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2014

But sometimes they forget that this kind of freedom comes with a price of personal accountability. Every time I try outsourcing manufacturing, I get quality problems.” “I really appreciate the real-world guidelines I get from my investors.” “I Exceeding customer expectations is my competitive advantage.” “I

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2013

But sometimes they forget that this kind of freedom comes with a price of personal accountability. Every time I try outsourcing manufacturing, I get quality problems.” “I really appreciate the real-world guidelines I get from my investors.” “I Exceeding customer expectations is my competitive advantage.” “I

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Building a company for the purpose of selling it is a proven strategy for a fast payoff. Focusing on the key elements that larger brands examine when they consider an acquisition is crucial for obtaining the best price and for establishing a corporate brand that distinguishes itself from its competitors as a valuable asset.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2011

But sometimes they forget that this kind of freedom comes with a price of personal accountability. Every time I try outsourcing manufacturing, I get quality problems.” “I really appreciate the real-world guidelines I get from my investors.” “I Exceeding customer expectations is my competitive advantage.” “I

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

A business plan is an “outward facing” document for external investors, or for C-level executives within your own company. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Competition analysis. Market research and competition. Market research. Development and rollout.

Product 48

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 48

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2010

But sometimes they forget that this kind of freedom comes with a price of personal accountability. Every time I try outsourcing manufacturing, I get quality problems.” “I really appreciate the real-world guidelines I get from my investors.” “I Exceeding customer expectations is my competitive advantage.” “I

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

It really doesn't suit a publisher well to have exclusive representation, except in some instances--for example, if a site has an outsourced sales agency. Publishers run with Hydra because we've eliminated the risk and so forth in pricing. It looks like your company has been seeing some great growth.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

It really doesn't suit a publisher well to have exclusive representation, except in some instances--for example, if a site has an outsourced sales agency. Publishers run with Hydra because we've eliminated the risk and so forth in pricing. It looks like your company has been seeing some great growth.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

I know many of their founders and early employees, and one of the co-founders of Intermix (the parent company of MySpace) is an investor. Music – enable a dead simple player on band and profile pages that lets users upload their songs and have them purchased for any price they set. Movies – no website has more Hollywood DNA.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2018

Nobody commits, nobody wants to set a price, nobody wants to stick their neck out then BOOM! It’s like the entire industry wants to outsource its brain to the smartest person they know and then follow that person. Even Amazon was told “no” by many before they built the world’s greatest company. Reid Hoffman is in? Happy raising.

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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

JUNE 13, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ► September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary!

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ► September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary!

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Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. Over the last few weeks, the Real Ventures team has met with easily 50 companies. But I don’t think so.

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