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6 Benefits of Outsourcing and Freelancing In Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

A solution I often recommend, as least in early growth, is the use of outsourcing for critical tasks. He outlines well the following benefits of outsourcing and freelancing, and I agree: Serving your business well is a competitive priority. Direct customer-facing non-technical roles should be the last ones outsourced.

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7 Business Mistakes Serial Entrepreneurs Never Make (Twice)

InfoChachkie

Fallacy: Startup ventures tend to evolve, especially after you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. Thus, you have negotiating leverage as long as a legitimate, competitive threat exists. Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend some of my precious capital to protect it.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. The former was outsourced, the latter was our own team.

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7 Strategies To Prepare For The Next Customer Change

Startup Professionals Musings

As a backdrop, he defines the evolution already in progress from current Gen Y customers to a more demanding and less tolerant state (Gen D) that will make them even quicker and more technologically able to demonize and destroy your business, if it won’t meet their norms of interaction, personalization, and purpose.

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7 Tips For Success With Today’s Demanding Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

As a backdrop, he defines the evolution already in progress from current Gen Y customers to a more demanding and less tolerant state (Gen D) that will make them even quicker and more technologically able to demonize and destroy your business, if it won’t meet their norms of interaction, personalization, and purpose.

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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

socalTECH

When our Youtube views are driven up, that drives more licensing demand for the video, with other shows interested. That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team. Those licensing fees can be pretty amazing.

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7 Tips For Success With Today’s Demanding Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

As a backdrop, he defines the evolution already in progress from current Gen Y customers to a more demanding and less tolerant state (Gen D) that will make them even quicker and more technologically able to demonize and destroy your business, if it won’t meet their norms of interaction, personalization, and purpose.

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