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How to Configure Your Startup Team

Both Sides of the Table

Early-stage companies shouldn’t: outsource core product development, have consulting firms build it for them to speed up time-to-market, shouldn’t hire too many business people until product is complete and early product/market fit tested. And what your views / tips for early-stage startup teams are.

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10 Tips To Ensure That Your New Venture Is Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some pragmatic tips on how to make your startup more scalable and investable: If you need investors, start with a scalable idea. Outsource what is non-strategic to optimize leverage. Smart entrepreneurs never outsource their core competency, and never rely on intellectual property they don’t own.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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7 Tips To Getting A Bank Interested In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

If you don't have a team on staff, then a banker is going to want to hear about outsourcing and advisors. When we say 'team,' that's what we want to hear about: a group of people who are working with the person who had the original idea to give this company its market advantage, including salespeople and finance people.

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10 Tips For Building The Most Scalable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some pragmatic tips on how to make your startup more scalable and investable: If you need investors, start with a scalable idea. Outsource what is non-strategic to optimize leverage. Smart entrepreneurs never outsource their core competency, and never rely on intellectual property they don’t own.

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Employee or Independent Contractor? Tips to Determine the Difference

Tech Coast Venture Network

To avoid this costly and all-too-common mistake, remember these tips the IRS wants you to know about classifying employees. Global Human Resources Outsourcing. The IRS uses three characteristics to determine the relationship between businesses and workers: behavioral control, financial control, and type of relationship. Brandon Carl.

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10 Tips For Rising Above The Crowd In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some tips from a classic book by Harvey Mackay, “ Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door ,” which work even better in a startup than they do in a bigger company: Make yourself indispensable. You can’t outsource that one. Very few people are willing and able to take on any challenge, and make it work.

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