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The Controversial First Role to Hire After Your “A Round”

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I never invest in: - business people who outsource tech dev to 3rd parties (“to speed up time to market”)” If you like that feel free to go vote it up on Quora - it fell back a bit in the rankings. Is extraverted and pleasant and has great “bedside manner” with customers, investors, press, recruits, etc.

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Understanding the Herd Mentality of VCs and How not to Let it Psyche You Out

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It’s like the entire industry wants to outsource its brain to the smartest person they know and then follow that person. Founders read the tech press every day filled with stories about these $20 million fund-raisings by this firm and that firm and it sounds like everybody else is doing it except for you. Wait, make that $1 million.

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Canoo, the electric vehicle startup formed from Faraday Future’s ashes, seeks $200 million

TechCrunch LA

Former President of BMW manufacturing, Clemens Schmitz-Justen also joined the company as its head of manufacturing — overseeing the contract manufacturing strategy, which will see the company outsource production of vehicles in the U.S. and China, according to one person with knowledge of the company’s plans.

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Outbound VC Dialing Programs – Total Disrespect for Entrepreneurs

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Often these businesses have little or no press so it’s hard to tell what they’re doing and how well they’re performing. The actual investment professionals (partners) are too busy to call companies that they’re interested in so they basically outsource it.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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I recently read this anecdote in the press (withholding company name because I actually really love the concept). The former was outsourced, the latter was our own team. And it seems to be creeping back into startup culture of late in a worrying way. I added a dev team in India to spearhead new initiatives and design our future UI.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

Brad proudly described how the company successfully used thought leadership marketing to seed a marketplace in which companies can outsource their SEO campaigns to a legion of independent, third-party “optimizers.” We have never done a press release.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

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They outsource the critical negotiations and “trust their advisors to handle the details.&# You can’t outsource this to a recruiter. I doubt they’d be willing to press harder in questioning and/or be more attuned to negative signals that the reference might be implying but not actually saying. You name it.