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TaskUs Founders Receive National Entrepreneur Of The Year Award

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The founders of Santa Monica-based TaskUs , CEO Bryce Maddock and President Jaspar Weir, have received a national award as part of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year program, the only Southern California entrepreneurs to gain recognition in the yearly program. Ruan and Hudson just sold Honey to PayPal for $4 billion.

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Products vs Services – Critical Success Factors

Startup Professionals Musings

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

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7 Good Entrepreneurial Habits That Turn Bad

Startup Professionals Musings

Good entrepreneurs are all about managing change, but too many forget that they have to change themselves as their dream evolves from a startup to a scalable business. Now you have real customers who can quickly turn off hundreds of potential customers if you ignore their feedback. Trust your gut, and ignore naysayers.

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Scaling a Business by Cloning Yourself is Tough

Startup Professionals Musings

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see.

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Startup 360-Performance Review Result – Improved Time Management - Finding Founder Time

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I = Technical Customer Calls. A = Product Strategy. D = Overseeing Product/Feature Stories. C = Product Coding. For instance, in the above chart, sitting in on “Technical Customer Calls,” was highly rated by the Founder, but deemed by the Core Team to be a duty that the CTO could effectively delegate. Competency.

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Interview with Kevin Strong, FutureDash

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We're enabling people with access to the channel, to add energy monitoring to their products. The category of customers we're targeting are building consumer networking equipment, such as routers, gateways, and set-top boxes. We're in the category of energy monitoring tools. Kevin Strong: There are several things.

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