Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Innovation is the key to long-term business success, both in startups as well as established organizations. He provides dozens of ideas and examples to illustrate how this discipline can work, and the power it brings to any organization. This idea helps to distill down the most important things to make or sell in a product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Listen to them, garner their trust and support, and assimilate your transformational vision for the organization. Before you bring in outsiders, help current team members see the transformation as an opportunity. Continuous innovation is a mindset that you cannot outsource, or bring in through acquisition or consultants.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2024

It’s designed to span nine years and helps eligible businesses access new business paths from government contracting. Since the creation of the program in 1970, it has helped disadvantaged businesses gain access to billions of dollars in funding. Learn more about WOSB, and how to apply here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

You can’t outsource that one. When the organization changes, be the first to help the new organization work, even when it costs extra hours and sweat. The truly indispensable person in a startup is a problem solver, because every startup has plenty of problems. Be a builder … and a rebuilder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. Concurrently, I am seeing an upswing in the number of entrepreneurs and startups, with the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the new focus on entrepreneurship in every university and every community development organization.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

Since the beginning, we've invested in a relationship management function within our organization, and we've always invested first in quality support. Whether that's our help desk, our account managers, or even the sales guys, to a certain degree, we put the customer first.We One, is listening to them, at the most basic level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

Of course, it helps to pick a business model that minimizes these costs, such as e-commerce to minimize initial staff and facilities, or professional services, where you are the initial product. Especially today, when more companies are willing to work through outsourcing, freelancing, and contracting. Everyone wins with this approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective. These should be hand-picked, come with a proven track record, be willing and able to help, and be completely trustworthy.

Technical Advisors 123

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2020

Prioritize your tasks ahead of helping others with theirs. Most often, smart scheduling and delegation is more effective help than instantly dropping your own work.< Most often, smart scheduling and delegation is more effective help than instantly dropping your own work.<

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Outsourcing By Frank Addante (Part 5 of a 5 part series: " So, you need to develop a product? ") Outsourcing has become a popular topic and practice these days. I have been outsourcing to India since before it became popular. A BIG THANK YOU.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2023

They are attracted to people who agree, but may not be able to help. A business startup is not an academic environment, or a big company research organization. Outsourcing to expert freelancers or business partners is often a better solution for startups than managing everyone into the inside team.

Entrepreneur 104

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

For several years now, the “cybersecurity skills gap” has been a top challenge for organizations. — Security teams need immediate help: The average organization needs to process more than 200,000 pieces of security event data per day. . Identify Your Organization’s Skills Gap. Explore Outside Help.

Training 40

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Innovation is the key to long-term business success, both in startups as well as established organizations. He provides dozens of ideas and examples to illustrate how this discipline can work, and the power it brings to any organization. This idea helps to distill down the most important things to make or sell in a product.

Startup 105

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

While I have some sympathy with not investing too heavily in sales people until the product has properly been tested and commercialized in the enterprise environment, in the end it’s a fact that it takes sales people to move product through large organizations. These are the lifeblood of your sales organization.

Startup 403

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

While some organizations may have the resources to manage their own network, an in-house team without the right technical prowess may still struggle to handle their networks in the most cost-effective and productive way. By partnering with an MNSP, organizations can receive four main benefits: Cost Savings. Improved Network Quality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2020

They are attracted to people who agree, but may not be able to help. A business startup is not an academic environment, or a big company research organization. Outsourcing to expert freelancers or business partners is often a better solution for startups than managing everyone into the inside team.

Competition 174

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

As an entrepreneur, I helped create companies which achieved two IPOs and two trade sales totaling $385 million. Hopefully this article and the accompanying six-minute video will help you avoid learning these mission-critical lessons the hard way. During those same 15-years, I made innumerable mistakes. Grant Exclusivity.

Entrepreneur 272

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In a perfect world they’d be in your home office but this is one area where I feel remote tools can help bridge gaps. What about outsourcing? For me outsourcing in a pure startup is the kiss of death. I believe that startup tech companies need to develop a technical DNA and this doesn’t happen when you outsource.

Technical Advisors 335

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. If you don’t have somebody inside your organization who is setting the technology direction then I’m convinced you’ll never head for greatness. However, it is one of the more critical roles as you scale your organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2019

You can’t outsource that one. When the organization changes, be the first to help the new organization work, even when it costs extra hours and sweat. The truly indispensable person in a startup is a problem solver, because every startup has plenty of problems. Be a builder … and a rebuilder.

Tips 100

Tips Startup Journal Outsource 100

Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2011

Look inward, forming a “tiger team” from within your organization to define the steps presently taken to reach the goal, and make improvements in increments that can be put into effect and tested quickly. All of these efforts will help you to better know the process to a degree you never expected to achieve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. Concurrently, I am seeing an upswing in the number of entrepreneurs and startups, with the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the new focus on entrepreneurship in every university and every community development organization.

Entrepreneur 129

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Satisfaction Equity 129

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I never invest in: - business people who outsource tech dev to 3rd parties (“to speed up time to market”)” If you like that feel free to go vote it up on Quora - it fell back a bit in the rankings. Is organized, disciplined & trustworthy. The key important things are: - strong tech DNA. who might be calling.

Startup 325

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 21, 2010

In fact, this can naturally force you to pay attention to your spending, and help you make better informed decisions. Start on your own, and outsource later. While outsourcing labor may prove a much easier time for you as a small business owner, it will also add additional costs that you may not yet have the money to pay for.

Outsource 100

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Despite the excitement and lure of startups to those in the tech industry, not everyone wants to join a startup after college--according to Mike Gammarino , who is helping to organize a new effort here to recruit students to startups. Yet you say you have issues finding technology majors?

Startup 206

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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. What is Dentistry.com?

Startup 113

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MAY 15, 2011

The caliber of the organizations and individuals participating with TCVN in this inaugural summit speaks volumes as to what I believe we will achieve,” commented TCVN Chairman Ciaran Foley. Historically, industry organizations such as the AeA formed to champion the interests of their early-stage members. About TCVN.

TCVN 113

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective. These should be hand-picked, come with a proven track record, be willing and able to help, and be completely trustworthy.

Technical Advisors 105

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2017

Here is my list of seven key principles to follow in setting up up your customer service policies and organizations today: Provide customers with choices in every interaction. Customers quickly detect intern usage or outsourcing to unfamiliar cultures, and will share their reactions through social media, rating sites, and personally.

Customer 95

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Jason Nazar

JULY 1, 2016

It’s hard to fully appreciate the complexity of keeping an organization with thousands of employees moving forward. I’ve been advising and consulting large organizations for many years now, and here is the advice I share with them, from the perspective of a serial entrepreneur. I’m on my fourth startup now with Comparably.

Entrepreneur 55

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We then help push those videos through social media channels, and help them go viral. That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team. Those two pieces helped feed each other. more) READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective. These should be hand-picked, come with a proven track record, be willing and able to help, and be completely trustworthy.

Technical Advisors 57

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 57

Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

For specific organizations that are part of the critical infrastructure for our community, the costs can be even higher. A smaller provider can be more flexible, helping you scale your network up and down as the need arises. Scalability and Flexibility. Economies of scale almost always result in up-front cost savings.

Services 64

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Tech Coast Venture Network

JANUARY 14, 2011

Everyone’s favorite federal organization, the IRS , recently released guidelines to help business owners distinguish employees from independent contractors. Global Human Resources Outsourcing. The IRS is following up these guidelines with random audits of employee classification. Brandon Carl. 2465 Campus Drive.

Tips 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective. These should be hand-picked, come with a proven track record, be willing and able to help, and be completely trustworthy.

Technical Advisors 98

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 98

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

It''s up 30 to 40 percent, and we had 2 million visits in May, all organic. Evan Britton: There are two things we''ve done with FamousBirthdays that has fueld our organic growth. Although the web offers amazing chances for organic growth, you have to do something amazing. Six months ago we only had 650,000 visitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2014

You do almost everything by yourself, and your focus is on building enough cashflow so you can start bringing in people to help you. What you then want is for the momentum to compound, with each new employee or outsourcer you hire to help, to give you get more time to create value and ultimately, increase profits.

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