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. These areas may have not just your co-founder, but also the robust ecosystem your startup needs for investors, programmers and customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Customer service and support. Product development process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Customer service and support. Product development process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Customer service and support. Product development process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

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. These areas may have not just your co-founder, but also the robust ecosystem your startup needs for investors, programmers and customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Customer service and support. Product development process.

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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. These areas may have not just your co-founder, but also the robust ecosystem your startup needs for investors, programmers and customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Solution development and delivery.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Now you have real customers who can quickly turn off hundreds of potential customers if you ignore their feedback. Now it’s time to make decisions from analytics, customer reviews, and financial results, rather than letting your passion and perseverance convince you that customers will soon see it your way.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Your chores can be outsourced through Porter. What we are spending money and time on is onboarding customers on one end and on the other end onboarding providers. That’s the only thing that is outsourced. My every day is trying to fundraise, reaching, re-reaching out, and trying to keep people updated with metrics.

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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? Make sure you are continuously looking at the business and customers. Get in front of customers as often as you can. When will key hires come on?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It’s always tempting to think that more product variations will satisfy more customers and lead to new sales. Some chaos is normal in every new business, but many wait far too long before they install metrics based on “best practices,” and fail to attack obvious bottlenecks with a vengeance. Use multiple small orders at first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Lack of focus only confuses customers and dilutes your scarce time and resources. Define and use metrics to measure your progress. If your comfort zone is relying on gut reactions, it’s time to stretch your understanding of what constitutes customer acquisition cost, margins, pipeline closure rates, and sales ROI.

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