Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage.

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Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 110

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Think about the future.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

“The climate-oriented investment in Biden’s new plan would be roughly ten times what came through ARRA,” wrote Shayle Kann, a partner with the investment firm, Energy Impact Partners. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage.

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Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 124

Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? I have been outsourcing to India since before it became popular.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s the whole basis of my investment philosophy, which I call “ The Entrepreneur Thesis.&#. Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. This benefits you, the entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Services Startup Training Writing 72

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I believe that the resourcefulness to turn constraints into competitive differentiators and new opportunities is a trait that separates the great entrepreneurs from the “wannabes.” They look for creative solutions to problems that are inhibiting progress, rather than the conventional solution of outsourcing or hiring people.

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Startup Resource Entrepreneur Outsource 57

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Think about the future.

Startup 59

Startup Outsource Competition Acquisition 59

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Fallacy: The very fact that your company is smaller and has fewer resources is the reason you should draft all of your significant agreements. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. Even benevolent BDCs lose interest in your solution once this competitive risk is eliminated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Think about the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Startup Ideas Tool 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2016

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Think about the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage.

Ideas 53

Ideas Outsource Development Tool Outsource 53

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Most new business owners I know feel the challenges of not enough time, money, and resources, and see these as problems rather than a competitive advantage. Foster experiments that don’t require major investments, rather than “big bang” solutions. Outsourcing of manufacturing is another option.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

Here are three of the most common: When you’re incorporating — Business structure is an important decision with financial, investment, and tax implications. I always recommend that early-stage startup founders outsource non-critical functions and take on part-time contractors for as long as possible. But you do need financial guidance.

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Startup Outsource Development IP Outsource 40

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? By Frank Addante Development resources are in high demand.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Yes, I did say competition. ► October (1) New Video!

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Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Outsourcing ▼ April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? What if there was another competitive cash register on the market?

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes.

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