Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Funding Innocal Offshore 124

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. with demands for new products and services. Find global sources now.

Patents 106

Patents Startup Offshore Demand 106

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better. Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review Outsource 87

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. with demands for new products and services. Find global sources now.

Marketing 54

Marketing Patents Offshore Startup 54

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. with demands for new products and services. Find global sources now.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Patents Startup Offshore 97

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. with demands for new products and services. Find global sources now.

Marketing 104

Marketing Startup Patents Offshore 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

So before you decide to move your manufacturing, software development, or call center out of town, make sure you understand the following considerations: Don’t give someone else control of your competitive advantage. Saving cost won’t help you if you can’t make the daily innovations required to stay competitive. Marty Zwilling.

Outsource Development 53

Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Technical Review 53

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better. Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm.

Startup 102

Startup Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review 102

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. with demands for new products and services. Find global sources now.

Entrepreneur 103

Entrepreneur Patents Offshore Startup 103

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better. Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Offshore Startup Technical Review 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better. Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm.

Offshore 55

Offshore Technical Review Entrepreneur Outsource 55

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 103

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

And they might give a premium if the team has been around a longer period of time, has built some hard-to-build proprietary technology or has some customer traction. Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. Get yourself in a big demo day competition.

Press 357

Press Startup Yahoo Venture Capital 357

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2010

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. with demands for new products and services. Find global sources now.

Startup 89

Startup Patents Offshore Demand 89

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 63

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. What about offshoring?

Technical Advisors 335

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335