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Are YOU the bottleneck in your business?

Berkonomics

Every business has bottlenecks At many board meetings, I can be counted upon to ask , “Where’s the bottleneck this month?” Senior management is usually prepared with an answer, and a good discussion of resource availability and application follows. Sometimes, the bottleneck is not so visible to the CEO.

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Managing Student Software Developer Teams

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 -- Building and Managing Student Software Developer Teams. Dr. Clint Staley will discuss how to recruit and manage teams of student software developers from local universities such as Cal Poly, and how to use this resource to produce low-cost, high-quality software.

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Good, cheap, fast. Pick any two.

Berkonomics

If you as a supplier have plenty of spare resources available, you might temporarily get away with adding “fast” to both of the other two attributes of good and cheap. So consider this: Make “fast” a tool for use as an inducement for particularly important customers or orders, or at times when resources are underutilized. Pick two. “.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Ways to Make Your MVP More Minimum We spent quite a bit of time talking about a complexity scale and the kinds of resources you can viably use at different levels of complexity. If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer.

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Are you or your business “time bankrupt?”

Berkonomics

Time bankruptcy results from the deliberate over-commitment of core resources. You’re fighting to put out the fires from customer complaints, or incomplete work, or are suffering from an inability to focus upon new development or new customers before cleaning up the mess inside your organization.

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Are you the bottleneck in your organization?

Berkonomics

Senior management is usually prepared with an answer, and a good discussion of resource availability and application follows. Once the bottleneck is identified, the solution often comes quickly, requiring little if any board action as management focuses resources on the bottleneck to remove the latest impediment to efficiency.

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Green Dot Opens Development Center In Shanghai

socalTECH

Pasadena-based Green Dot , the provider of prepaid Mastercard and mobile banking services, said today that it has opened up a new office in Shanghai, China, which will provide engineering and software development resources to the company. According to Green Dot, it officially opened up Green Dot Shanghai Software Technology Co.