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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

Look at internal services versus external services. Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. But customers are not looking yet another homogeneous product or service, so be careful.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

Look at internal services versus external services. Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. But customers are not looking yet another homogeneous product or service, so be careful.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

Look at internal services versus external services. Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. But customers are not looking for yet another homogeneous product or service, so be careful.

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6 Ways To Prevent Disastrous Outsourcing Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

Look at internal services versus external services. Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. But customers are not looking yet another homogeneous product or service, so be careful.

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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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