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7 Ways Your People Skills Are The Key To Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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10 Ways Owners Often Jeopardize Their Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

People with the wrong tools or no training. It’s no secret that some people are more productive than others, due to skills, training, or commitment. The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media.

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LAVA Healthcare

SoCal Tech Calendar

LAVA Healthcare is an ongoing conversation about how we might fix the healthcare-industry's mess applying innovation across a wide range of dimensions  including technology, business models, patient involvement, offshore outsourcing, and training programs. Neal is a remarkably smart and insightful speaker.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Specialized services, such as accounting, require skilled people, training, and tools, and do not scale well. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage. Products that can be easily produced and sold via multiple channels, including the Internet, are more easily scaled world-wide.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. I have been outsourcing to India since before it became popular. I am still a big fan of outsourcing. A BIG THANK YOU. Be scrappy.

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Growing A Services Business Requires Selling Yourself

Startup Professionals Musings

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”