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10 Key Outsourcing Mistakes Made By Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. Let’s cut costs by outsourcing all from this point forward.” Be flexible.

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7 Government Small Business Grants to Apply For in May 2024

Tech.Co

Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) 🔎 Want to browse the web privately? Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contracting Program For: Women-owned businesses Funding limit: $4 million for service contracts and $6.5 🌎 Or appear as if you're in another country?

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Ten Rookie Startup Mistakes You Won’t Make

InfoChachkie

“Learn from the mistakes of others. During those same 25-years, I also made innumerable mistakes. Thus, I will recruit independent distributors and they will sell my new and innovative products on my behalf. 10) Grant An Investor Anti-dilution Protection. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”.

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Lessons Big Companies Should Learn from Entrepreneurs

Jason Nazar

There’s Not Enough Focus on the Product – New companies are obsessive about product-market fit, because it’s their lifeblood. At scale, product differentiation is taken for granted. When product is focused on, it’s often groupthink committee decisions leading to the most boring and predictable of changes.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). My family had the very first edition of the IBM XT computer with a 10 MB hard drive. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting.

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

Tech Zulu Event

This article will cover two things; First, the top mistakes small business owners make that end with inquiries leading you to the exit door before making a sale. Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? call to arms.