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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. It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. 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. It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you.

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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. Its hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. 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. It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

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Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. And of course many small acquisitions work for the buyers when there is a clear strategy for owning the asset or a clear alignment with the team you’re acquiring. And few in the press are willing to call this out.

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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

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Today’s higher education is responding by making more courses online and available to people outside of physical boundaries. In many ways I think general purpose writing & thinking skills are as valuable as math skills. “Online education is truly going to kill us.”

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

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But poly sci taught me critical thinking and writing skills that I didn’t get in my econ classes. Take lots of inputs but then let your internal compass set your course. Often it’s not the best course. He writes about the fabric of American life, often from the perspective of his Jewish, New Jersey roots.

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