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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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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Rinse & repeat. It takes options off of the table. You have a hunch.

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Lessons Big Companies Should Learn from Entrepreneurs

Jason Nazar

Add in public company demands, lawsuit targets, & millions of customers to continually satisfy, and you have to have great respect for those doing it well. There’s Not Enough Focus on the Product – New companies are obsessive about product-market fit, because it’s their lifeblood. But those are paper & plastic symbols.

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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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Ten Rookie Startup Mistakes You Won’t Make

InfoChachkie

Thus, I will recruit independent distributors and they will sell my new and innovative products on my behalf. Fallacy: AdVentures tend to evolve once you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. Even benevolent BDCs lose interest in your solution once this competitive risk is eliminated. 8 ) Grant Exclusivity.

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Are You ‘Hands On’ Enough To Succeed In A Startup?

Startup Professionals Musings

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. In his book, “ Out-Executing the Competition ,” seasoned executive Irv Rothman provides tips to corporate executives on how to dig in and “get their fingernails dirty.” There will be a lot of demands on your time as an entrepreneur, and you can’t be in all places at once.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch LA

. “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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