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6 Key Leaders Every Technical Startup Needs To Thrive

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective. The sales professional. The operations superstar.

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6 Team Members Who Will Make Your New Venture Robust

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective. The sales professional. The operations superstar.

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6 Ideal Team Members For Any Entrepreneurial Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective. The sales professional. The operations superstar.

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Interview with Elizabeth Cholawsky, HG Data

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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. I've been in product, product development, marketing, and management.

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6 Dream Team Members Will Energize Any Tech Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective. The sales professional. The operations superstar.

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Every Technical Startup Wishes For This Dream Team

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective. The sales professional. The operations superstar.

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Don’t Pay Bribes to Get International Expansion

Startup Professionals Musings

In a very recent international bribery case, Alcatel-Lucent decided to pay $137 million to settle charges that it paid millions of dollars in bribes to foreign officials to win and maintain contracts in Costa Rica, Hondurus, Taiwan and Malaysia. The days of a “slap on the wrist” for offenders are gone. The resulted in the U.S.