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Female Founder Interview – Claudia Freed, CEO of Non-Profit EALgreen

The Startup Magazine

As an immigrant student from Argentina, Ms. Freed is a global thinker and living proof that purpose-driven businesses transform lives. This action can create inefficiencies and add cost. Freed received the first scholarship created from a sustainable-business model by the collaboration of EALgreen, WW Grainger, Inc.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Well, all that costs money, I would like to see a more cost-effective customer acquisition strategy. Malaysia, India, China, Italy, Argentina, wherever), you are better off raising money locally.

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One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy

ReadWriteStart

Outsourcing – or relocating – the work can be a great to overcome those obstacles while controlling costs, increasing efficiency and even making workers happier. At this stage of the business we needed top talent, no low cost workers, so I ended the contract with the Indian team to focus on the local team.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Determining which of these methods of staffing software development projects is right for your company can be a challenging endeavor, and three opposing characteristics of business need to be considered: cost, risk and convenience. Below is an overview of what you need to consider and the pros and cons of each option for IT staffing.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

So they began signing up Spanish-language content producers in Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and so forth. They have production facilities in Mexico where they have been creating lower-cost video for traditional TV for many years and they pivoted this facility to producing for YouTube.

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The increased cost of offshore development in India

BeyondVC

While a couple of our companies chose to use consulting partners to begin with due to lower upfront costs and better time to market, we found that over time (the last 2 years) that employee churn is becoming a huge problem in these consulting companies and making us less productive in the long run. What does that mean for us in the future?