Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Today, productivity is way up, you can do most anything yourself, and you can outsource to contractors with more skill and less cost. It never happened in any time frame I can remember, and it definitely won’t happen today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” 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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

It definitely works, but may be beyond your budget. Outsource your technical requirements. If you can clearly define the specifications for your technical project, and you are willing and able to manage the efforts closely, then outsourcing it to a local or remote technical group beats hiring technical employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2014

They definitely look for more personalization, and more “me, myself, and I” in the message. So start now to think of your startup as a media company, rather than an outsourcer of advertising from some anonymous experts. Thus customers and partners rely more and more on personal engagement with people. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They definitely look for more personalization, and more “me, myself, and I” in the message. So start now to think of your startup as a media company, rather than an outsourcer of advertising from some anonymous experts. Thus customers and partners rely more and more on personal engagement with people. Marty Zwilling.

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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?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

It definitely works, but may be beyond your budget. Outsource your technical requirements. If you can clearly define the specifications for your technical project, and you are willing and able to manage the efforts closely, then outsourcing it to a local or remote technical group beats hiring technical employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Product development process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” 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. Look impartially from all angles and do the follow-up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

It’s definitely positive to have a product plan. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. Don’t get me wrong. Market research.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

Why would you have your most important success factor (successful implementations) outsourced to a third-party where you don’t control quality and who is strictly mercenary (i.e. By definition you will either get a crappy SI promising you they will move mountains or a great SI that gives you their C-player team.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

And you definitely want to give some thought to tax considerations. It makes more sense to outsource to get the exact services and level of financial support you need, while keeping your cost structure low. You need to establish your accounting platform and systems, including accounts receivable and accounts payable. At this point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

New this year are application services and outsourcing, cloud application infrastructure services, cloud security, privacy and smart cities. It’s definitely worth a look. This report evaluates the maturity of more than 1,900 technologies and trends in 89 areas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” 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. Look impartially from all angles and do the follow-up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” 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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

It’s definitely positive to have a product plan. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. Don’t get me wrong. Market research.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Product development process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2016

It’s definitely to everyone’s advantage to make them winners, or we will all be the losers. In a startup, you can’t afford to outsource too many functions. The reality is that Millennials (also known as Gen-Y) are here to stay, and will soon be taking over the majority of our businesses, new and old.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2011

They definitely look for more personalization, and more “me, myself, and I” in the message. So start now to think of your startup as a media company, rather than an outsourcer of advertising from some anonymous experts. Thus customers and partners rely more and more on personal engagement with people. Marty Zwilling.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

We are definitely interested in oncology, but there is no value in disclosing details.”. We outsource everything. And now there is Dauntless Pharmaceuticals , a third San Diego-based holding company created with an innovative business model for starting new biotech companies as efficiently as possible. We don’t have our own laboratory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Product development process.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

. “Committing to electrify 2 million American buildings, moving them entirely off of fossil fuels is exactly that — an investment in America leading theway towards creating a new industry creating American jobs that cannot be outsourced, and beginning to reduce the 30% of greenhouse gas emissiosn that come from buildings.”

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast. That's something we're definitely going to consider and look at for the longer term, but we have no specific timeline. The other thing that helps diffentiate us, is we help our customers with costs, save them money, and allow them to get to market faster, with scale.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

We do have to operate within things like headcount maximums, and we do have some components of budget and cost limits, but inside those requirements we have been able to figure out ways to add staffing, adding product managers, finding outsourcing, and developing technology contractors. Brian McCarthy: You definitely know the right questions.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We never have to worry about monetization, and outsource that to Google. That''s definitely on our roadmap. Google will syndicate ads to a site with five visitors or 50 million visitors, the challenge really is getting good quality traffic. Instead, we build a very good product, get organic traffic, and those networks pay well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” 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. Look impartially from all angles and do the follow-up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Product development process.

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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. So while you definitely want their help in discussing price and getting you more information (they’re better at it than you), I want a seat at the table. You name it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

In this article, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” 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. Look impartially from all angles and do the follow-up.

Software Review 92

Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development Startup 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

But there are some things that DEFINITELY come with other people’s money. Moral: Before you decide that it’s absolutely necessary to take outside investment, explore all the possible ways you can partner, outsource, affiliate, collaborate, or…heaven forbid, get customers. All problems will go away. They’re new and different problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

It’s definitely positive to have a product plan. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. Don’t get me wrong. Market research.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

It should be codified as part of the definitive agreement in the form of an Exhibit. A detailed NRE budget will help you avoid becoming the BDC’s adjunct, outsourced engineering team. If you allow the BDC to unilaterally expand the scope of your involvement, you have effectively abdicated control over your technological resources.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

What are your thoughts on outsourced design vs. having in house creatives to work on design elements of the app? It depends on what your definition of in-house versus out-sourced is. If outsource versus in-house means America rather than a foreign company, then the answer comes down to culture.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Understand the definition of an “At Will” employee. If outsourced development is needed, use Guru or Elance. Familiarize yourself with federal discrimination laws and heed them. Terminate employees properly to avoid discrimination claims. Recommended. Create job descriptions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Outsource services back to the customer. Pervasive access to the Internet and social media have allowed customers to take an active role in helping other customers, with customer support, requirements definition, and open source development. This has facilitated innovation in responsiveness, as well as profitability.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 19, 2015

Almost the instant the concept of the sharing economy was introduced, it has skyrocketed into hundreds of successful and established brands by offering everyone a chance to be their own boss, and others the ability to outsource needs saving time by providing convenience.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The most basic definition of business is a solution to a problem. As a last resort I outsourced and actually hired someone in India to remotely log into my computer during the night and correct all the errors from the scanned cards, which my in house team had processed earlier in the day. The word “convince” shouldn’t exist in sales.

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