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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Don’t expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Don’t expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you.

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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

Do you have anyone you could recommend to me, or any resources? Of course, a lot of people say the same thing. I’ll leave that for another discussion as the inquiry that I keep getting is more about local talent than offshore talent. Perfect timing. I went back and revise the post. Depends on complexity.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Dont expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. core competency entrepreneur near shoring offshoring outsource startup' Marty Zwilling.

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6 Ways To Prevent Disastrous Outsourcing Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Don’t expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you.

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Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass.

Both Sides of the Table

Take lots of inputs but then let your internal compass set your course. Often it’s not the best course. It shows us how the other 6 billion humans live, compete, struggle for resources and find clever ways to rise above their means. (I Fight monoculture. Question authority. Reading widely can also broaden your thinking.

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Why I Don’t Celebrate Income Inequality

Both Sides of the Table

Yes, income inequality exists and yes it’s a natural consequence of capitalism and other forms of government are decidedly worse than capitalism because they inefficiently create and allocate resources. Of course “carried interest” tax breaks are more at risk than founder tax breaks.

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