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6 Startup Lessons Learned By Passionate Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

In my own experience with technical startup founders, I still find it hard to name one who was also good, or even interested in financials or business operations. Not a single one of us has the bandwidth to build a solution and a business alone. You need a team and relationships to run a business.

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10 Remote Staffing Blunders That Will Cost You Dearly

Startup Professionals Musings

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. When you sign up remote workers, you’ll start to rely heavily on collaborative tools, Internet bandwidth, and new data security tools. My IT budget will go down as remote users use their own tools.”

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6 Reasons Why More Is Not Better In Your Next Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. A simple test is to see if you can quickly name your top three priorities, and if every team member is able to respond quickly with the same three. Thus the first and top focus for every entrepreneur should be on strategy. Too many strategy elements generate lots of work, but few results.

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10 Outside Staffing Quotes True Entrepreneurs Avoid

Startup Professionals Musings

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. When you sign up remote workers, you’ll start to rely heavily on collaborative tools, Internet bandwidth, and new data security tools. My IT budget will go down as remote users use their own tools.”

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Framework Benchmarks Round 17

TechEmpower

We want an official Round to have a solid showing by as many frameworks as feasible given limited personnel bandwidth. Select a continuous run on the physical hardware (named "Citrine") that looks good and identify its Git commit. Run the same commit on cloud (Azure). Write a blog entry and post the Round.

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10 Key Outsourcing Mistakes Made By Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. When you sign up remote workers, you’ll start to rely heavily on collaborative tools, Internet bandwidth, and new data security tools. My IT budget will go down as remote users use their own tools.”

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6 Startup Challenges That Can Be Mitigated With Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. A simple test is to see if you can quickly name your top three priorities, and if every team member is able to respond quickly with the same three. Thus the first and top focus for every entrepreneur should be on strategy. Too many strategy elements generate lots of work, but few results.

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