Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 10, 2023
Solution development and delivery. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations.
SoCal CTO
JANUARY 26, 2010
What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. But often the result of a Founder hiring a developer or lead developer or even a VP engineering is a gap created between the founders and the developers. What do we build in-house or outsource?
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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 7, 2020
Solution development and delivery. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
For example, many investors I know tell me they look for business plans that allocate the largest portion of a requested investment to marketing, but most often see the top “ use of funds ” to be further product or service development. The smart ones were already working on new features, and able to counter competition quickly.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 24, 2015
Solution development and delivery. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 28, 2016
Solution development and delivery. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 4, 2014
Develop your business plan. Product development process. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. But having no process does not make you more competitive.
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