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Scaling a Business by Cloning Yourself is Tough

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. In addition, the statistics show that over half of new startups, perhaps as high as 75%, provide services only (no product). Thus it’s up to you to communicate effectively what you are about, to customers as well as your own team.

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Products vs Services – Critical Success Factors

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. In addition, the statistics show that over half of new startups, perhaps as high as 75%, provide services only (no product). Thus it’s up to you to communicate effectively what you are about, to customers as well as your own team.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. Okay, so maybe you never took statistics, microeconomics or macroeconomics. I installed Windows 3.1

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.),

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: We're Not Saving Lives.

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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