Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

Define success metrics, and measure progress regularly. Too many entrepreneurs I know burn themselves out as this burden grows, and they are hesitant to use available tools or outsourcing non-critical tasks to allow scaling. If you have completed four out of five milestones, we can both see success in your future.

Startup 123

Startup Outsource Development Entrepreneur Outsource 123

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Don’t assume you can outsource the implementation decisions. Create a written plan, with target milestones and metrics. Yet there are clearly some positive steps I can recommend for getting you (and him) over the bridge: Find a co-founder who has been there and done that.

Ideas 126

Ideas Writing Examples Outsource 126

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs.

Outsource Development 115

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 115

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2021

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. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. The right answer is to find a co-founder with complementary skills.

Startup 126

Startup High Tech Entrepreneur Writing 126

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. Product development process. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why.

Startup 107

Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

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. Product development process. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why.

Startup 102

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs.

Outsource Development 99

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 99

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. Product development process. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

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. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. The right answer is to find a co-founder with complementary skills.

Startup 105

Startup High Tech Entrepreneur Writing 105

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. Product development process. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

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. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. The right answer is to find a co-founder with complementary skills.

Startup 99

Startup High Tech Entrepreneur Writing 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs.

Ideas 62

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Competition 62

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Your chores can be outsourced through Porter. That’s the only thing that is outsourced. My every day is trying to fundraise, reaching, re-reaching out, and trying to keep people updated with metrics. TechZulu reaches out to Matt Lucido , founder of Porter, and discuss Porter, LA, and startups. TechZulu: What is Porter?

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

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. That ability to tackle any challenge personally, and get it done, serves early entrepreneurs well. It’s a big change. Limit your scaling efforts to organic growth.

Social Network 59

Social Network Startup Entrepreneur Demand 59

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Metrics, such as time-to-completion on individual tasks and workload balance, can provide a clearer understanding of how your resources are deployed, and how effective they are at certain tasks. Third-party resources provide help in two ways: training and outsourcing. An outsourcing engagement can cover a variety of responsibilities.

Training 40

Training Outsource Organization Resource 40

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What do we build in-house or outsource? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? How will we address these without significant cost? How are we going to manage the product roadmap? What parts might we do off-shore, on-shore, in-house?

CTO Coach 231

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Development 231

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Some chaos is normal in every new business, but many wait far too long before they install metrics based on “best practices,” and fail to attack obvious bottlenecks with a vengeance. Yet I still see expense budgets based on traditional channels, with no strict metrics on cost of customer acquisition by channel, or lifetime customer value.

Outsource Development 122

Outsource Development Outsource Metrics Technical Review 122

Berkonomics

AUGUST 25, 2022

He tried to feel the pulse of the company by the intensity of motion, the metrics of backlog, and the stated problems brought to him as he asked. In this age of remote workforces, self–managed contractors and employees, outsourced call centers and development, is this a dying art?

Outsource Development 156

Outsource Development Outsource Coach Metrics 156

Berkonomics

JULY 28, 2016

He tries to feel the pulse of the company by the intensity of motion, the metrics of backlog, and the stated problems brought to him as he asks. In this age of remote work forces, self–managed contractors and employees, outsourced call centers and development, is this a dying art?

Outsource Development 120

Outsource Development Outsource Coach Metrics 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Define and use metrics to measure your progress. Yet too many entrepreneurs approach business building as a standardized process that can be learned from textbooks, or outsourced to professionals. Lack of focus only confuses customers and dilutes your scarce time and resources.

Social Network 94

Social Network Startup Ideas Entrepreneur 94