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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. 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'

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

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I've also been in technology since I was AOL in the 90's. We actually started with the musician matching site, because it was a smaller technology challenge. In lots of the cities I've lived in, I've usually been the band leaders, and the person who tried to find the gigs, so I'm pretty familiar with this area.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

And a few teams of super talented, educated and bright entrepreneurs make a few mill. And they might give a premium if the team has been around a longer period of time, has built some hard-to-build proprietary technology or has some customer traction. I don’t blame entrepreneurs who go for an early exit when it comes up.

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Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction

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One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. Lots of that comes into play within academia, which normal entrepreneurs don't have to deal with. We have three or four now.

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To Outsource or Not to Outsource Software

Startup Professionals Musings

Technology level. If you expect your solution to incorporate the absolute latest in software technologies, scalable to millions of users, with multi-system failover and recovery, don’t count on out-sourcing. Overall, I believe that the demise of software entrepreneurs has been greatly exaggerated. Marty Zwilling.

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American Immigration: The Invisible Wall to Innovation

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A look around technology industry, perhaps the heart of the global revolution, shows a happily working international community all pushing for the common goal of innovation. The Startup Act outlines a five-prong approach to job creation based on the proven track record of entrepreneurs: Reducing regulatory burdens.