Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Many entrepreneurs I have mentored make big mistakes in this area, by hiring low-cost friends and family, with minimal skills or training, and expecting them to have the same work ethic , passion, and business knowledge as the founder. A solution I often recommend, as least in early growth, is the use of outsourcing for critical tasks.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, crowdfunding still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return.
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socalTECH
JANUARY 2, 2019
Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference, which we co-host every year. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?
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.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 20, 2020
Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return.
SoCal CTO
JULY 23, 2012
This leads to a set of questions: What is the role of a CTO in the early stages of a company, and does that role change later on as both the company and that individual matures? It specifically answers the first questions about role and how it changes as the company matures. What do we build in-house or outsource?
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
Executives from large companies have sometimes long forgotten how to do this (“My people will contact your people to work out the details.”). Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. There is no substitute for diving into the key details of a new startup. These executives won’t survive long in a startup environment.
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