Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A solution I often recommend, as least in early growth, is the use of outsourcing for critical tasks. He outlines well the following benefits of outsourcing and freelancing, and I agree: Serving your business well is a competitive priority. Direct customer-facing non-technical roles should be the last ones outsourced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

For an in-depth study of the pros and cons of a bossless environment, I found a new book, “ Why Managers Matter ,” by management scholars Nicolai Foss and Peter Klein. Outsourcing and working from home needs coordination. In the early days of outsourcing, I was led to believe that it would reduce the need for local managers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Instead, having your own business going shows initiative, leadership, wider experience, and makes you more competitive for any role available. Learn more about business by doing versus studying. Every study shows that happiness does not scale up with income. A single job is not adequate for today’s lifestyle.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

Google has its own home energy monitoring project, PowerMeter - is this competitive or different? We're outsourcing lots of development, and our developers are all around the world in low cost locations. Kevin Strong: This is really different. We're in the category of energy monitoring tools.

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