Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Think about the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. You should never outsource the management of your core technology. For both software and hardware technology, multiple iterations are usually required to achieve production quality and performance. Support early negotiation with vendors and distribution channels.

Outsource Development 110

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. You should never outsource the management of your core technology. For both software and hardware technology, multiple iterations are usually required to achieve production quality and performance. Support early negotiation with vendors and distribution channels.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. Talent can also be outsourced, but surviving in the business jungle without talent is unlikely. If you want to be feared.

Startup 94

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Note: There are clearly routine tasks which can be effectively outsourced at a startup, including those which: (i) do not require a significant time investment on the part of the entrepreneur to educate the outsourcer or, (ii) no institutional knowledge is gained by the outsourcer which could be critical to the venture’s success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Think about the future.

Startup 59

Startup Outsource Competition Acquisition 59

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. Of course, since you know those questions, you can just collect up the answers and provide them to your developers. How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? What do we build in-house or outsource?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. Of course I’m generalizing. I don’t believe it. They may work strange hours such as 2am – noon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. Talent can also be outsourced, but surviving in the business jungle without talent is unlikely. If you want to be feared.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup News Framework 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

The opportunity for change is huge, with everyone taking a new look at the world after the recession, but the competition is also huge, since the cost of entry is at an all-time low. Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. Talent can also be outsourced, but surviving in the business jungle without talent is unlikely.

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Startup Competition News Framework 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Think about the future.

Startup 97

Startup Entrepreneur Outsource Competition 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2017

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. Talent can also be outsourced, but surviving in the business jungle without talent is unlikely. If you want to be feared.

Startup 57

Startup News Framework Entrepreneur 57

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2016

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Think about the future.

Startup 55

Startup Outsource Competition Entrepreneur 55

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. You should never outsource the management of your core technology. For both software and hardware technology, multiple iterations are usually required to achieve production quality and performance. Support early negotiation with vendors and distribution channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. You should never outsource the management of your core technology. For both software and hardware technology, multiple iterations are usually required to achieve production quality and performance. Support early negotiation with vendors and distribution channels.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Startup Ideas Tool 105

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. You should never outsource the management of your core technology. For both software and hardware technology, multiple iterations are usually required to achieve production quality and performance. Support early negotiation with vendors and distribution channels.

Ideas 53

Ideas Outsource Development Tool Outsource 53

InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Brad proudly described how the company successfully used thought leadership marketing to seed a marketplace in which companies can outsource their SEO campaigns to a legion of independent, third-party “optimizers.” Within Boulder, they took part of their office and turned it into code space. Just be you.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

over the course of 2020 (and their combined estimated price tag of nearly $100 billion), it’s not surprising that the Biden plan begins with a focus on resiliency. This increased competition is good for hardware vendors and ultimately could create new businesses for entrepreneurs who want to become ISPs of their own.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. The former was outsourced, the latter was our own team. In the end, of course, our productivity actually suffered. I certainly did in my first company. I continually felt the market pressure to get new product releases out the door.

Development Team Review 374

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

Of course, it has to be the right value, and convenient, and all these other things. The other thing I see, is trying to outsource all of this stuff your self. Strangely enough, there's no competition there. If it's a soft touch for subscribers, where they can cancel anytime, then it's easy and stress free.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

A more complicated negotiating point involves IP that is created in the course of the parties’ collaboration. Guard against a preclusion that would deny you from utilizing the IP developed during the course of executing the agreement. A detailed NRE budget will help you avoid becoming the BDC’s adjunct, outsourced engineering team.

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Outsource Development IP Technical Review Entrepreneur 193

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

When I get funded,” the entrepreneur thinks, “I can build a prototype, hire a development team, go to market, scale more quickly, and beat my competition.” Strange course corrections. To someone laboring in a cash-strapped startup, money often seems to be the endgame. All problems will go away. They’re new and different problems.

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Outsource Development High Tech Outsource Startup 93

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Today’s higher education is responding by making more courses online and available to people outside of physical boundaries. ” But I pointed out a professor at HBS ( Tom Eisenmann ) who teaches a course where blogs are a part of the classroom reading material. “Online education is truly going to kill us.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2018

It’s like the entire industry wants to outsource its brain to the smartest person they know and then follow that person. But if there is nothing wrong with you then please don’t let early rejections alter your course.” Wait, make that $1 million. And please reserve another $1 million for me?—?I

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Instead, having your own business going shows initiative, leadership, wider experience, and makes you more competitive for any role available. In these days of the gig economy, world-wide outsourcing, and working remotely, you need to think of yourself as a business, even if you haven’t created one formally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

Evaluate outsourcing as a quick solution to break the constraint. Of course, they all prefer cash, but some may work for future revenue or startup equity. Of course, it’s important to maintain a balance of organic growth versus the more creative approaches.

Startup 56

Startup Outsource Development Organization Outsource 56

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? What do we build in-house or outsource? This can take the form of a local university, online courses, going through relevant books, etc. What are the biggest areas of technical risk? How can we address this risk? When will key hires come on?

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Frank Addante

JULY 30, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? We didn’t wait for planning meetings, we didn’t discuss strategy, didn’t discuss architecture, didn’t talk to customers, didn’t look at similar or competitive products , didn’t write specs or requirements. A BIG THANK YOU.

Startup 40

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2012

Look for new volatility, caused by inflation or deflation, new government regulations, and of course new technology and even more determined competitors. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Once the decision is made, automate, and outsource functions that are not core to the business.

Startup 94

Startup Outsource Ideas Organization 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2011

Look for new volatility, caused by inflation or deflation, new government regulations, and of course new technology and even more determined competitors. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Once the decision is made, automate, and outsource functions that are not core to the business.

Startup 97

Startup Outsource Ideas Organization 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2010

Look for new volatility, caused by inflation or deflation, new government regulations, and of course new technology and even more determined competitors. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Once the decision is made, automate, and outsource functions that are not core to the business.

Startup 48

Startup Outsource Ideas Organization 48

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Timing your startup - Chris Dixon , November 7, 2010 I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would have passed (which of course would have been a huge mistake). This doesn’t make sense. This post is my reflection on what is different and what remains the same.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? The interesting thing is that we never looked at our competition, we never did any kind of competitive analysis on the products we wanted to be leaders, so we acted like leaders – we focused on our customers, not our competition.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? So, we decided to move the company to Silicon Valley (with a little encouragement from Sequoia, of course). FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.

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