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How To Find Support Resources For Your Startup Stage

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching online courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy).

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Docstoc Bolstering Premium Business Courses

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Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the online small business resources site led by Jason Nazar, is looking to bolster its video content with more content around small business subjects. Docstoc already offers up a large library of business videos, which it offers to its Docstoc Premium members.

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7 Critical Resources For A Thriving Startup Community

Startup Professionals Musings

It may not seem fair, but passion and commitment alone are not enough to make your startup successful – every business needs critical resources and favorable location-specific conditions. Many of you are convinced that it’s all about finding investors, but my experience indicates that the critical resources needed go far beyond money.

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Are you meeting your customer’s expectations?

Berkonomics

Be ready to over-allocate resources to a launch. The best advice I can give is to allocate all your resources to supporting the roll-out of a new product, at least for a short period. What if my resources are limited? Respond immediately to every question and complaint.

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With Bambee, Allan Jones wants to give small businesses HR services their employees can trust

TechCrunch LA

While the business didn’t work out, it put the budding young entrepreneur (and college dropout) on a path that would lead him to launch the Los Angeles-based startup Bambee , a company that lets small businesses give their employees access to the same kinds of human resources services that large companies have.

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How good a leader are you?

Berkonomics

With that in hand, short-term or long term, you should then be able to plot a course of strategies and tactics for you, each of your direct reports, and the entity as a whole to focus resources upon and to progress through the steps to achieve that goal.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower

This is a safe choice, of course - but is it the best choice? More on the Role of the Startup CTO Eric Ries, a great resource, answers the question What Does a Startup CTO actually do? Often, developers don’t think to answer these questions. Is it the best path to profitability? It might be. But you shouldn’t rely on the defaults.

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