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8 Signs Of A New Business Initiative And Not A Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

Solution development and delivery. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. Formalize the use of tools and information technology. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations.

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10 Ways Owners Often Jeopardize Their Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

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. People with the wrong tools or no training. Outsourcing services that could be done in-house. Inadequate focus on hiring and people development.

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8 Indications Of A Real Entrepreneur Versus A Hacker

Startup Professionals Musings

Solution development and delivery. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. Formalize the use of tools and information technology. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations.

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Stem: Simplifying Payments For Creatives, With Milana Rabkin

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Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. We spent a lot of time developing talent coming out of YouTube, and helped to grow that business.

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8 Business Execution Strategies That Lead To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Define success metrics, and measure progress regularly. Look for tools to automate and simplify strategy execution. Initially, you may be able to do everything in your startup, including product development, marketing, and shipping orders. Focus on communication and responsibility assignment.

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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

socalTECH

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? We have developed a tool that takes scientific, validated methodologies from academia, and use that to assess unconscious bias around race, gender, age, and other personality attributes, in the workplace.

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8 Processes Define A Business Rather Than A Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

Solution development and delivery. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. Formalize the use of tools and information technology. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations.