Customer Outsource Resource 
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
A solution I often recommend, as least in early growth, is the use of outsourcing for critical tasks. While this approach appears to cost more on the surface, it often actually costs you less, when you consider the hidden costs of rework, poor customer satisfaction, employee management, and training required. with experience.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 13, 2020
If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. Factor in all the cost elements.
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2011
In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 19, 2013
The most important way to sell a product for an early-stage business (or frankly any stage) is to have strong referenceable customers. How do you get referenceable customers? Your project is forked without a rollout organization, communications, measurement, integration and without turning sales into referenceable customers.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 17, 2020
Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products. Many of the current opportunities in alternative energy are the result of these forces, as well as the lack of effective government coalitions to conserve other resources.
InfoChachkie
AUGUST 26, 2013
This approach allows your venture to "fail in the small" and make course corrections before spending significant marketing resources. In concept, working in a secretive fashion facilitatesquietly locking-in key industry stakeholders and resources, allowing the company to emerge from stealth mode with a significant first-move advantage.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 11, 2013
As I visit the websites of many startups, as well as more mature businesses, I still too often see a “contact” page offering nothing but a sterile form for customers to submit, never to be heard from again. Customers are not all like you, and they have choices, so a “one size fits all” customer service is no longer a viable option.
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