Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2023

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? They are attracted to people who agree, but may not be able to help. Outsourcing to expert freelancers or business partners is often a better solution for startups than managing everyone into the inside team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

Self-service technologies, social media, and smart phones have created a new set of expectations for high-tech consumers today. I found a good summary of these new expectations in a book recently published by Micah Solomon, “ High-tech, High-touch Customer Service.” Self-service needs to have escape hatches.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? They are attracted to people who agree, but may not be able to help. Outsourcing to expert freelancers or business partners is often a better solution for startups than managing everyone into the inside team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2011

These efforts proved to be a major distraction from our main objective, namely sales and service of our high tech products. Dealing with the bureaucrats for permits and licenses was once again outsourced to expeditors specialized in these areas. However, in reality the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

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. She is a true angel investor, and has helped package and secure funding for many high-tech startup companies in the area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. If you’re lucky, your guru also brings some commercial contacts to the table.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2016

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? They are attracted to people who agree, but may not be able to help. Outsourcing to expert freelancers or business partners is often a better solution for startups than managing everyone into the inside team.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2010

These efforts proved to be a major distraction from our main objective, namely sales and service of our high tech products. Dealing with the bureaucrats for permits and licenses was once again outsourced to expeditors specialized in these areas. Generally the cost for each such transaction was nominal, i.e. less than $ 200.

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