Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2021

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees. Adopt new core principles to stay competitive and assure survival.

Customer 173

Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 173

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

Startup 111

Startup Training Services Writing 111

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

I’m not suggesting that you model your startup after the complex corporate organizations you hated in your last job, but there are at least eight key functions and activities that every investor expects to find in a startup proposal with any real potential to change the world. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

Startup 174

Startup Training Services Writing 174

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 123

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. Single-node factories may be home-based with a global market. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally.

Startup 126

Startup Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Offshore 126

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

That’s called organic growth , and everybody does it. For example, at any given moment in your business, you may be limited by development, marketing, or sales. The organic solution is to hire more people, spend more money, and ramp up your focus. Evaluate outsourcing as a quick solution to break the constraint.

Startup 56

Startup Outsource Development Organization Outsource 56

InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis. In order to reasonably assess the size of your addressable market, you must perform a bottoms-up analysis which is based on a number of elemental assumptions. Fallacy: Most large organizations are driven by the fear of loss, rather than hope of gain. Grant Exclusivity. Fallacy: Yes.

Entrepreneur 272

Entrepreneur Outsource Ideas Technical Review 272

Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. I have been outsourcing to India since before it became popular. I am still a big fan of outsourcing. A BIG THANK YOU. Be scrappy.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Startup 40

Jason Nazar

JULY 1, 2016

It’s hard to fully appreciate the complexity of keeping an organization with thousands of employees moving forward. I’ve been advising and consulting large organizations for many years now, and here is the advice I share with them, from the perspective of a serial entrepreneur. At scale, product differentiation is taken for granted.

Entrepreneur 55

Entrepreneur Company Companies Outsource Development 55

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. If you don’t have somebody inside your organization who is setting the technology direction then I’m convinced you’ll never head for greatness. However, it is one of the more critical roles as you scale your organization.

CTO Hire 400

CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns.

Technical Advisors 105

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

I’m not suggesting that you model your startup after the complex corporate organizations you hated in your last job, but there are at least eight key functions and activities that every investor expects to find in a startup proposal with any real potential to change the world. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations.

Outsource Development 99

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 99

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns.

Technical Advisors 57

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 57

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. Single-node factories may be home-based with a global market. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review Outsource 87

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees. Adopt new core principles to stay competitive and assure survival.

Demand 71

Demand Customer Custom Tips 71

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns.

Technical Advisors 98

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 98

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2015

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees. Adopt new core principles to stay competitive and assure survival.

Customer 97

Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

I’m not suggesting that you model your startup after the complex corporate organizations you hated in your last job, but there are at least eight key functions and activities that every investor expects to find in a startup proposal with any real potential to change the world. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations.

Ideas 62

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Competition 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2012

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. These volatile markets are already creating unexpected opportunities and risks – you must be alert and agile enough to spot them and adapt quickly to survive and prosper.

Startup 94

Startup Outsource Ideas Organization 94

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

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. We''re developing programming around our brands, such as Failarmy, and we also have a deal with Dick Clark Products to take Failarmy to the international market.

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees. Adopt new core principles to stay competitive and assure survival.

Demand 56

Demand Customer Custom Tips 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2014

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees. Adopt new core principles to stay competitive and assure survival.

Customer 96

Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2011

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. These volatile markets are already creating unexpected opportunities and risks – you must be alert and agile enough to spot them and adapt quickly to survive and prosper.

Startup 97

Startup Outsource Ideas Organization 97

SoCal CTO

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. Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition?

Fractional CTO 225

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach 225

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. Single-node factories may be home-based with a global market. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally.

Startup 102

Startup Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review 102

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? 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? What options do we have? How do we balance those options? How can we address this risk?

CTO Coach 231

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231

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.

Startup 107

Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. Single-node factories may be home-based with a global market. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Offshore Startup Technical Review 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. Single-node factories may be home-based with a global market. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally.

Offshore 55

Offshore Technical Review Entrepreneur Outsource 55

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

Startup 102

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

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.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2010

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. But volatile markets do create unexpected opportunities – if you are alert and agile enough to spot them and adapt quickly. Proactive pursuit of new markets.

Startup 48

Startup Outsource Ideas Organization 48