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7 Keys To Strategic Partnerships That Profit Everyone

Startup Professionals Musings

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers.

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7 Ways Your People Skills Are The Key To Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Make sure that every interaction with every customer is positive, the service delivered is exemplary, and always follow-up for reference and repeat business.

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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references. Beyond the core team of two or three startup partners, every startup should seek to “outsource” the rest of their strategic requirements to external business partners.

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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Make sure that every interaction with every customer is positive, the service delivered is exemplary, and always follow-up for reference and repeat business.

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7 Ways Getting In Bed With The Enemy Can Be Win-Win

Startup Professionals Musings

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers.

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How TaskUs Is Powering LA's Technology Startup Boom

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With globalization, and the rise of technology, we believed that you were going to see more and more individuals looking to outsource tasks. We discovered that the model didn''t really scale, because the frame of reference of an individual is so unique, and also because business professionals don''t have all that much money to spend.

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

Both Sides of the Table

They outsource the critical negotiations and “trust their advisors to handle the details.&# Often recruiters want to handle the final negotiations on package and/or do the reference calls. You can’t outsource this to a recruiter. I’m also reluctant to hand over reference calling. You name it.