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6 Key Leaders Every Technical Startup Needs To Thrive

Startup Professionals Musings

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. The sales professional. 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. 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. The sales professional. 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. 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. The sales professional. 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. The operations superstar.

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Interview with Elizabeth Cholawsky, HG Data

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The business model, is people use this to do better marketing and sales targeting when they sell their own products. The company has grown very rapidly and well for a startup, but we're now at the point where sales is the name of the game. That was in the support space, where we were doing outsourced technical services.

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6 Dream Team Members Will Energize Any Tech Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. The sales professional. 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. 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. The sales professional. 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. The operations superstar.

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Investors Know A Product Doesn’t Make a Business

Startup Professionals Musings

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Business model, executive team, marketing & sales, financials, and funding. These are all new and critical sections of a business plan.

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