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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. Dont expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. core competency entrepreneur near shoring offshoring outsource startup' Marty Zwilling.

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How Gigmor Is Looking To Connect Musicians With Gigs, with David Baird

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What markets are you in right now? We're pretty much in every major market, particularly in music strong communities, like Los Angeles, New york, Nashville, and Toronto. I think we've got an advantage, to kickstart this, and move faster than they were in the early days. The bulk of our users are in the U.S. and Canada. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction

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I asked him if he wouldn't mind sitting down with me, and he helped me develop the business model, and suggested that I work with some offshore developers on automating the system. Lots of that comes into play within academia, which normal entrepreneurs don't have to deal with. We have three or four now. Thanks, and good luck!

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. We had some great offshore coders as part of the engineering team. What's the story behind Ranker?

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New Entrepreneurs Are Rebuilding Our Business Engine

Startup Professionals Musings

On the other hand, everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. His focus is on entrepreneurs in America, but what he says applies to every other country as well. This next frontier lies in building enterprises as an entrepreneur, rather than waiting for innovation and opportunity from large corporations.

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7 Strategies To Prepare For Global Market Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.