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10 Key Outsourcing Mistakes Made By Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. Let’s cut costs by outsourcing all from this point forward.” Be flexible.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues. My family had the very first edition of the IBM XT computer with a 10 MB hard drive.

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Ten Rookie Startup Mistakes You Won’t Make

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“Learn from the mistakes of others. During those same 25-years, I also made innumerable mistakes. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. 10) Grant An Investor Anti-dilution Protection. Thus, I am willing to protect their investment from future dilution. Make Your Own Mistakes.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. Every one of these reasons has haunted me at one time or another over the past 10 years. It is also true that there are good deals and good entrepreneurs that can't find anyone to invest in them. This post is an accusation. What truth?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Go Fast, but Don’t Hurry

Frank Addante

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Second, it’s when you make careless mistakes.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: I'm 30, now will you take me seriously?

Frank Addante

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? I guess that gives me over 10 years experience in starting companies.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Why MOST smart people are better at solving other people’s problems… - Life Beyond Code , August 10, 2010 And, not their own problems. I've gotten to be a lot more productive as a programmer since I started casually 15+ years ago and seriously about 10 years ago. made all of these mistakes in my first companies. Dying at 70?

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