Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

I like their recommended framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Building through internal development, or organic growth, makes the most sense when you have a core set of skilled internal resources.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I like their recommended framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Building through internal development, or organic growth, makes the most sense when you have a core set of skilled internal resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

They outline the following framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Add basic partner contracts or alliances. Use external sourcing to fill in the non-critical gaps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. An obvious reason is limited funds, but a more important reason is the need to know and intimately understand what is really going on in the business and the market. Clean hands won’t out-execute the competition for long in any business. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2012

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. An obvious reason is limited funds, but a more important reason is the need to know and intimately understand what is really going on in the business and the market. Clean hands won’t out-execute the competition for long in any business. Marty Zwilling.

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