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6 Benefits of Outsourcing and Freelancing In Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the most stressful and unanticipated challenges that comes with starting a new business is hiring and managing employees. A solution I often recommend, as least in early growth, is the use of outsourcing for critical tasks. Direct customer-facing non-technical roles should be the last ones outsourced. with experience.

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6 Reasons That Managers Still Add Value In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant with experience in large companies as well as startups, I often hear about dysfunctional management hierarchies, as well as the value provided by exceptional ones. Outsourcing and working from home needs coordination. Individual team members all dream of being unleashed.

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Interview with Kevin Strong, FutureDash

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The founder of the company is Allan Hundhausen, who is President of the firm, who started working on the technology three years ago, and incorporated FutureDash about a year ago. Google has its own home energy monitoring project, PowerMeter - is this competitive or different? Kevin Strong: This is really different.

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How Starting A Business Fits Into Every Career Today

Startup Professionals Musings

With the cost of starting an online business today at an all-time low, I can’t imagine why everyone doesn’t have a web site and an LLC to mitigate liability and minimize taxes. Instead, having your own business going shows initiative, leadership, wider experience, and makes you more competitive for any role available.

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