Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Distilling a field of work down to a single sentence describing the core elements helps to innovate and keep ahead of the curve. This idea helps to distill down the most important things to make or sell in a product. Outsource services back to the customer. Elon Musk recommends this approach. Practice the one-sentence method.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2017

Today’s customers definition of service is the sum total of their “experience,” covering all aspects of their relationship, including the shopping and buying process, as well as ongoing assistance. Set up online forums for customers to help each other. Staff all customer interactions with experienced people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. With a little help from a friend, you can handle expenses, revenue, and payroll, with QuickBooks or a similar package. It never happened in any time frame I can remember, and it definitely won’t happen today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2014

They definitely look for more personalization, and more “me, myself, and I” in the message. Provide content and interaction that helps solve a problem or answers a critical information need for your audience. So start now to think of your startup as a media company, rather than an outsourcer of advertising from some anonymous experts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Product development process. Manage human resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They definitely look for more personalization, and more “me, myself, and I” in the message. Provide content and interaction that helps solve a problem or answers a critical information need for your audience. So start now to think of your startup as a media company, rather than an outsourcer of advertising from some anonymous experts.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

And you can’t use the API argument to get out of helping with integration. Why would you have your most important success factor (successful implementations) outsourced to a third-party where you don’t control quality and who is strictly mercenary (i.e. We prefer to sell software, not get involved with client systems.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

Even if you are looking in all the right places, it helps to know what you are looking for. In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The feedback was good, but some readers asked me to be a bit more specific on attributes that might indicate an ideal startup partner.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

Content delivery networks are there to help improve the performance, and serve up that content more intelligently to devices, to thd network, and to users, as they consume the Internet. The other thing that helps diffentiate us, is we help our customers with costs, save them money, and allow them to get to market faster, with scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2016

Distilling a field of work down to a single sentence describing the core elements helps to innovate and keep ahead of the curve. This idea helps to distill down the most important things to make or sell in a product. Outsource services back to the customer. Elon Musk recommends this approach. Practice the one-sentence method.

Startup 57

Startup Outsource Development Entrepreneur Ideas 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Product development process. Manage human resources.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

And you definitely want to give some thought to tax considerations. Post-funding, it’s time to hire a professional to help you to manage your day-to-day finances as well as provide strategic financial insight. You need to establish your accounting platform and systems, including accounts receivable and accounts payable. At this point.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Most relevant to startups is the push to fund initiatives and technologies that can help prevent or protect against extreme wildfires; rising sea levels and hurricanes; new agriculture resource management; and “climate-smart” technologies. Americans in rural areas and on tribal lands particularly lack adequate access.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Even if you are looking in all the right places, it helps to know what you are looking for. In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The feedback was good, but some readers asked me to be a bit more specific on attributes that might indicate an ideal startup partner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Product development process. Manage human resources.

Startup 102

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

We do have to operate within things like headcount maximums, and we do have some components of budget and cost limits, but inside those requirements we have been able to figure out ways to add staffing, adding product managers, finding outsourcing, and developing technology contractors. Brian McCarthy: You definitely know the right questions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2016

It’s definitely to everyone’s advantage to make them winners, or we will all be the losers. In a startup, you can’t afford to outsource too many functions. The reality is that Millennials (also known as Gen-Y) are here to stay, and will soon be taking over the majority of our businesses, new and old.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

They’re essential in helping us get our jobs done because they specialize in something we do not. They outsource the critical negotiations and “trust their advisors to handle the details.&# You can’t outsource this to a recruiter. Middle Men. Middle People? They exist in all forms of work and life. Recruiters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2011

They definitely look for more personalization, and more “me, myself, and I” in the message. Provide content and interaction that helps solve a problem or answers a critical information need for your audience. So start now to think of your startup as a media company, rather than an outsourcer of advertising from some anonymous experts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Product development process. Manage human resources.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We work with Google to help monetize our traffic, and we''re also working with a variety of other networks. We never have to worry about monetization, and outsource that to Google. That''s definitely on our roadmap. The last thing, is the less you rely on Google the better you do. How does your revenue model work?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

Even if you are looking in all the right places, it helps to know what you are looking for. In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The feedback was good, but some readers asked me to be a bit more specific on attributes that might indicate an ideal startup partner.

Software Review 96

Software Review CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

Even if you are looking in all the right places, it helps to know what you are looking for. In this article, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The feedback was good, but some readers asked me to be a bit more specific on attributes that might indicate an ideal business partner.

Software Review 92

Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development Startup 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

But there are some things that DEFINITELY come with other people’s money. Moral: Before you decide that it’s absolutely necessary to take outside investment, explore all the possible ways you can partner, outsource, affiliate, collaborate, or…heaven forbid, get customers. All problems will go away. They’re new and different problems.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

It should be codified as part of the definitive agreement in the form of an Exhibit. A detailed NRE budget will help you avoid becoming the BDC’s adjunct, outsourced engineering team.

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Outsource Development IP Technical Review Entrepreneur 193

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

I’ve spent almost 20 years starting businesses and helping hundreds of clients, colleges & friends start theirs. Choose a broker to help find an adequate business space on TheBrokerList. Understand the definition of an “At Will” employee. If outsourced development is needed, use Guru or Elance.

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

It is generally a soft touch at the beginning of the development process, perhaps identifying 1-2 early alpha/beta customers to help flesh out use cases to be built upon over time. It is helping with recruiting by leveraging my networks and experience in a particular domain. Solicit trusted advisors help with interviewing.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 19, 2015

Almost the instant the concept of the sharing economy was introduced, it has skyrocketed into hundreds of successful and established brands by offering everyone a chance to be their own boss, and others the ability to outsource needs saving time by providing convenience. Before she knew it, her income from the site surpassed her parents.

Resource 40

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The most basic definition of business is a solution to a problem. As a last resort I outsourced and actually hired someone in India to remotely log into my computer during the night and correct all the errors from the scanned cards, which my in house team had processed earlier in the day. Help a Reporter Out (HARO).

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 30, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver By Frank Addante (Part 2 of a 5 part series: " So, you need to develop a product? ") Ive learned that more process doesnt necessarily equal higher quality and it definitely doesnt result in increased productivity. A BIG THANK YOU.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What do we build in-house or outsource? " There are definitely cases where the lead developer grows into a CTO. Unlike some larger, more mature organizations, most startups don't spend much time or effort helping grow their employees beyond the immediate needs of the startup. How are we going to manage the product roadmap?

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO (The video is less than 3 minutes long, I definitely encourage you to watch it.) Watch them use it (do they struggle without your help?) FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4. Try this: 1.

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