Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

It definitely works, but may be beyond your budget. Outsource your technical requirements. If you can clearly define the specifications for your technical project, and you are willing and able to manage the efforts closely, then outsourcing it to a local or remote technical group beats hiring technical employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

It definitely works, but may be beyond your budget. Outsource your technical requirements. If you can clearly define the specifications for your technical project, and you are willing and able to manage the efforts closely, then outsourcing it to a local or remote technical group beats hiring technical employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Even if you are looking in all the right places, it helps to know what you are looking for. Passion for what they do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2015

Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change. Adopt new core principles to stay competitive and assure survival. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Even if you are looking in all the right places, it helps to know what you are looking for. Passion for what they do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2014

Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change. Adopt new core principles to stay competitive and assure survival. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Even if you are looking in all the right places, it helps to know what you are looking for. Passion for what they do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

In this article, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Even if you are looking in all the right places, it helps to know what you are looking for. Passion for what they do.

Software Review 92

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk.

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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.” But there are some things that DEFINITELY come with other people’s money. All problems will go away. They’re new and different problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change. Adopt new core principles to stay competitive and assure survival. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

It’s definitely positive to have a product plan. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Competition analysis. Here is where you pick a few of these, characterize what they do, and position your own product to show your competitive advantage. Market research and competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change. Adopt new core principles to stay competitive and assure survival. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

So in October 2010, I evaluated the competitive landscape and realized that there weren’t any app companies out there focused on what I thought mattered the most: the brand, the look, and the experience a client would have with an app. It depends on what your definition of in-house versus out-sourced is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Outsourcing 1. Bringing in Steady engineers too early could result in a less competitive product, bringing them in too late could result in instability. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.

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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.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Our “keep it simple&# strategy enabled us to move faster than our competition, and more importantly, enabled our customers to move faster than their competition. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4.

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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? " There are definitely cases where the lead developer grows into a CTO. Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes?

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

It should be codified as part of the definitive agreement in the form of an Exhibit. A detailed NRE budget will help you avoid becoming the BDC’s adjunct, outsourced engineering team. If you allow the BDC to unilaterally expand the scope of your involvement, you have effectively abdicated control over your technological resources.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

. “Committing to electrify 2 million American buildings, moving them entirely off of fossil fuels is exactly that — an investment in America leading theway towards creating a new industry creating American jobs that cannot be outsourced, and beginning to reduce the 30% of greenhouse gas emissiosn that come from buildings.”

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