Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

Of course, none of these are a substitute for doing your homework on the opportunity, and maintaining the energy to drive it: Break the journey into small sprints with milestones. Define success metrics, and measure progress regularly. We all need to see progress toward a goal to keep us motived and focused.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. Of course, since you know those questions, you can just collect up the answers and provide them to your developers. What do we build in-house or outsource? Of course, it’s never complete. Gap closed, right? Probably not. When will key hires come on?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Of course, any approach for solving the skills gap will evolve over time. Metrics, such as time-to-completion on individual tasks and workload balance, can provide a clearer understanding of how your resources are deployed, and how effective they are at certain tasks. An outsourcing engagement can cover a variety of responsibilities.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Today’s higher education is responding by making more courses online and available to people outside of physical boundaries. ” But I pointed out a professor at HBS ( Tom Eisenmann ) who teaches a course where blogs are a part of the classroom reading material. “Online education is truly going to kill us.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Of course, they can outsource part of the work or hire employees, but that approach means more time and money to manage the work, which they don’t have. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. The right answer is to find a co-founder with complementary skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2021

Of course, they can outsource part of the work or hire employees, but that approach means more time and money to manage the work, which they don’t have. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. The right answer is to find a co-founder with complementary skills.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What do we build in-house or outsource? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? This can take the form of a local university, online courses, going through relevant books, etc. How will we address these without significant cost?

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