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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

So before you decide to move your manufacturing, software development, or call center out of town, make sure you understand the following considerations: Don’t give someone else control of your competitive advantage. Saving cost won’t help you if you can’t make the daily innovations required to stay competitive.

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Why Entrepreneurs Should Be Respected More Than Loved

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The “span of control” for a growing tech startup is probably 6-9 people. You help them prioritize their objectives and review the results. If you hire truly talented people you end up definitionally with a lot of competitive peers who will inevitably jockey for resources and control. You set direction.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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It is often the fortuitous mixture of new technologies, customer awareness and then acceptance of the technology and then the slow adoption into our daily lives that leads to markets exploding. Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund. Far from it.

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? What are the biggest areas of technical risk? What technology research is required?

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Eano’s Stella Wu is not your typical construction tech startup founder

TechCrunch LA

Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar As more people spent time at home last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the startup saw its contract revenue spike by 5x, Wu says. Eano, she said, offers competitive and transparent pricing so that homeowners aren’t surprised as a remodeling project goes on.

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Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal

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Industry reviews. Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. So the “VC associate” is largely a launching pad job for exceedingly bright and hard-working young tech professionals. Ability to source information easily to help build a thesis around companies / industries / competition.

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