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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. The best “MCNs” are in fact building strong technology businesses with rapid growth and strong, defensible assets. Not so fast.

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Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech

TechCrunch LA

Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. This too shall pass.” — Balaji S.

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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

We caution all readers to review the source code of each test when interpreting the plaintext numbers. In preliminary tests, we experimented with more requests per pipeline but doing so caused socket write buffer overflows. All of the other tests (JSON, Fortunes, database read and write tests) are still run without HTTP pipelining.

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

TechCrunch LA

Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. If the authors are inviting fans to write fan fiction about a universe they created, who owns the derivative works? The project ultimately imploded due to a combination of factors.

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Some Career Advice for Aspiring Tech CEOs

Both Sides of the Table

Of course you could start your own company. As I talked about in “ Is it Time to Learn or Time to Earn ” – overwhelmingly the best economics go to those that start successful companies. Of course I’m not suggesting people shouldn’t start a company. For many people that’s the right answer.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.