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8 Business Execution Strategies That Lead To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Initially, you may be able to do everything in your startup, including product development, marketing, and shipping orders. 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.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

Both Sides of the Table

I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. I don’t believe that one exists.

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4 Strategies for Plugging Up Your Cash Drain

Tech Zulu Event

Just to clarify for the non-finance professionals amongst us, cost accounting is not the same thing as the kind of accounting system used to prepare your financial reports (which are hopefully GAAP compliant…). Marketing is key in helping you to develop long-term, strategic plans that can stop your cash drain. Cost Accounting.

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Don’t Pay Bribes to Get International Expansion

Startup Professionals Musings

Justice Department and SEC reported imposing over $1.5 In a very recent international bribery case, Alcatel-Lucent decided to pay $137 million to settle charges that it paid millions of dollars in bribes to foreign officials to win and maintain contracts in Costa Rica, Hondurus, Taiwan and Malaysia. The resulted in the U.S.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

The short story is that he received 400+ responses and goes through how he categorized/vetted the responses: 300 Didn’t Fit – Outside expertise/interest, pushing for immediate funding assistance, too many ideas (not focused), looking for sales agents. And a big factor is how big is the Founder Developer Gap.

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Entrepreneur Hack: This Remote Team Of 12 Generated $100M

InfoChachkie

In contrast, TaxJar, a SaaS solution which makes automates online sales tax calculations, reporting and filings, is an entirely virtual company. Early in his career, Dan proved to be a valuable contributor on my GoToMeeting business development team (acquired by Citrix).

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

One of the big questions, probably the biggest questions that I get from reporters, is 'what trends do you see? Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. Develop your business plan. While I sit here and rule.

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