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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. Don’t expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. Focus on operational processes, rather than innovative new ones.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. Don’t expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. Focus on operational processes, rather than innovative new ones.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

Its hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. Dont expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. core competency entrepreneur near shoring offshoring outsource startup'

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. When I have great teams with products that are taking longer to show traction than they or I would like I usually spend time trying to figure out how we can build a better business versus selling early. Sarah Lacy did.

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6 Ways To Prevent Disastrous Outsourcing Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. Don’t expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. Focus on operational processes, rather than innovative new ones.

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Five Keys to Our Long Term Survival

Berkonomics

Bill has survived multiple cycles in the game industry, and writes here his thoughts about his longevity in a volatile niche. ” Just visited Disney this week, for example, because our producer on a previous product was very happy with us and wanted her bosses to consider using our team. That’s a big win.

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Why I Don’t Celebrate Income Inequality

Both Sides of the Table

I am not writing about this out of the blue – this seems to be the topic of the day in my social stream based on blogs written, retweets rendered and attaboys handed out. But this often requires relatively large sums of money and it implies writing a check in a company whose future is uncertain. That might actually seem fair.

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