Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 2, 2020
Don’t assume you can outsource the implementation decisions. Create a written plan, with target milestones and metrics. Build your own personal brand image through blogging, industry forums, and networking. You need someone you can trust and learn from every day, with equal “skin in the game.”
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 4, 2014
Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why. Funding process.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 9, 2016
For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002. As the business grows, you must learn to hire and train employees, and utilize outsourcing in non-core areas to keep up with the volume and detailed expertise required. It’s a big change.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 31, 2013
Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why. Funding process.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why. Funding process.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 1, 2010
Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why. Funding process.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 1, 2023
Of course, they can outsource part of the work or hire employees, but that approach means more time and money to manage the work, which they don’t have. Network to find co-founders just as you network to find investors. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup.
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