Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. He is regarded by many as the number-one authority on virtual staffing and personal outsourcing, and is himself a successful entrepreneur based in the Philippines. Be flexible.

Outsource Development

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. He is regarded by many as the number-one authority on virtual staffing and personal outsourcing, and is himself a successful entrepreneur based in the Philippines. Be flexible.

Outsource Development

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

The actual investment professionals (partners) are too busy to call companies that they’re interested in so they basically outsource it. But how can you really outsource judgment to young, smart people who have often never worked in businesses? What disrespect they show founders / CEOs with these programs.

Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Outsourcing and working from home needs coordination. The recent pandemic, global outsourcing, and new remote collaborative tools have increased the need for company-centered team management, rather than reduced it. In the early days of outsourcing, I was led to believe that it would reduce the need for local managers.

Outsource

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

They outsource the critical negotiations and “trust their advisors to handle the details.&# You can’t outsource this to a recruiter. Summary : In dealing with middle men you get the huge expertise they bring to bear by doing their task on a repeated basis and dealing with the same sets of end customers. You name it.

Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As a summary, crowdfunding today can mean any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model. In fact, perhaps the most important model, equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors was legalized via the SEC way back in 2016, and its impact is still not fully understood.

Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t be afraid to use some mercenaries to back you up (outsourcing, consultants). If the investor thinks you are coming to ask for domain advice, and you ask for money, your success probabilities are shot. Fully prepare for the assault.

Slides

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. The video can be watched here , but there is a most excellent summary below provided by John Excley. He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup.

Google

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Services for services sake - The type of business that is generally shunned in Silicon Valley is the “pure services&# business like consulting, system integration, value-added resellers (VARs), customer support businesses, outsourcing companies, etc. In fact, that’s all that I fund as a VC.

Services

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

Talent can also be outsourced, but surviving in the business jungle without talent is unlikely. In summary, whether you are running a startup, a family business, or a famous brand like IBM, you are all part of the jungle. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. Money is no substitute for these other treasures.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2012

I found a good summary of these new expectations in a book just published by Micah Solomon, “ High-tech, High-touch Customer Service.” It’s getting tougher and tougher to outsource this tone and technology to other cultures halfway around the globe. You and your staff need to regularly use your self-service channels.

Customer

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I like his summary of the challenges involved, real case studies, and especially his recommended building blocks to a culture of perpetual innovation in any company: Extract and instill a long-term vision in your team. Continuous innovation is a mindset that you cannot outsource, or bring in through acquisition or consultants.

Case Study

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2014

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t be afraid to use some mercenaries to back you up (outsourcing, consultants). If the investor thinks you are coming to ask for domain advice, and you ask for money, your success probabilities are shot. Fully prepare for the assault.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Talent can also be outsourced, but surviving in the business jungle without talent is unlikely. In summary, whether you are running a startup, a family business, or a famous brand like IBM, you are all part of the jungle. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. Money is no substitute for these other treasures.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t be afraid to use some mercenaries to back you up (outsourcing, consultants). If the investor thinks you are coming to ask for domain advice, and you ask for money, your success probabilities are shot. Fully prepare for the assault.

Slides

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t be afraid to use some mercenaries to back you up (outsourcing, consultants). If the investor thinks you are coming to ask for domain advice, and you ask for money, your success probabilities are shot. Fully prepare for the assault.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

Talent can also be outsourced, but surviving in the business jungle without talent is unlikely. In summary, whether you are running a startup, a family business, or a famous brand like IBM, you are all part of the jungle. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. Money is no substitute for these other treasures.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

Talent can also be outsourced, but surviving in the business jungle without talent is unlikely. In summary, whether you are running a startup, a family business, or a famous brand like IBM, you are all part of the jungle. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. Money is no substitute for these other treasures.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2010

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t be afraid to use some mercenaries to back you up (outsourcing, consultants). If the investor thinks you are coming to ask for domain advice, and you ask for money, your success probabilities are shot. Fully prepare for the assault.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2019

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t be afraid to use some mercenaries to back you up (outsourcing, consultants). If the investor thinks you are coming to ask for domain advice, and you ask for money, your success probabilities are shot. Fully prepare for the assault.

Slides

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

I found a good summary of these new expectations in a book recently published by Micah Solomon, “ High-tech, High-touch Customer Service.” It’s getting tougher and tougher to outsource this tone and technology to other cultures halfway around the globe. You and your staff need to regularly use your self-service channels.

Customer

Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In summary: “The owners of those devices don’t care. DNS is a shared resource that almost all companies outsource, which means someone could cripple internet usage worldwide by targeting a relatively small number of companies. Bruce Schneier convincingly argues that it’s a problem of economics.

Netflix

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2017

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t be afraid to use some mercenaries to back you up (outsourcing, consultants). If the investor thinks you are coming to ask for domain advice, and you ask for money, your success probabilities are shot. Fully prepare for the assault.

Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2017

Talent can also be outsourced, but surviving in the business jungle without talent is unlikely. In summary, whether you are running a startup, a family business, or a famous brand like IBM, you are all part of the jungle. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. Money is no substitute for these other treasures.

Startup

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? – Digital Messaging Infrastructure Company (incubated by Addante and Associates, LLC) Age: 25 - 29 (present) Time Period: 2002 - present My Role: Founder High Point: TBD Here is a summary of my experiences to-date with StrongMail: 1. A BIG THANK YOU.

Startup

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Your executive summary is essentially the cover letter to your business plan: its goal is to get the reader to check out your business plan and, hopefully, to set up a meeting. Here’s how to write an executive summary with impact: 1. Sure you can get help, but the exercise of creating your executive summary is an important one.

Summary

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

What about outsourcing? For me outsourcing in a pure startup is the kiss of death. I believe that startup tech companies need to develop a technical DNA and this doesn’t happen when you outsource. Outsourcing early often happens when you have non-technical founders who don’t know how to get code out the door.

Technical Advisors