Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model. The cost of entrepreneur entry is at an all-time low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model. The cost of entrepreneur entry is at an all-time low.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. It seems many startups these days are under a lot of pressure to outsource their development organization to save costs. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The company was started six weeks ago, had no sales and no retail distribution yet. Revenue or distribution can both be evidence that, in the Bear and the Rat’s case, the dogs literally are eating the dogfood. The SBU retails for $1,800 and costs $250 to make in an offshore factory.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

Throughout the different phases of the pandemic, we have spent even more time with our existing customers and actively sought out their advice on how we can make our platform and services better as this distributed work environment continues. A few years ago outsourcing resources offshore was all the rage. Photo Credit: Tony Tullio.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Some folks cut corners by ordering equipment made offshore.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the Bay Area’s cost structure compress the precious runway these newco’s have? And, so, I began to ask myself, in the face of intense local inflation for rents, for talent, for simply getting around — are the fundamental of the Bay Area’s local conditions simply inhospitable to fledgling startups that I am trying to invest in?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Obviously that barrier has been brought down with low-cost ability to capture, stream and distribute content over the Internet. He believes that one of the financial metrics taught at business schools and reinforced by Wall Street has accelerated offshoring of industries. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed).

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

This discussion began last week and has fostered some great comments and resources… Offshore resources/Europe company for U.S. I’ve used some local and some offshore resources and avoided larger outsourcing companies. They start by demoing their skills on my project at no cost for 1-2 days. web development projects.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Nufactur is a marketplace for industrial distribution so it is important to grow both the demand side, the users, and the supply side, the distributors. In five years our company would have normalized remote, offshore and outsourced staffing. Our aim is to be a carrier of positive change and contribute to a healthier America.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Among its many implications, the digital office means that jobs don’t necessarily need to be done in-person, and today’s startup leaders are realizing that many projects can be done at a lower cost remotely, without any drop in quality. Still, COVID-19 helped tip the balance towards a globally distributed model.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

The next generation takes the baton from their patriarch’s achievements and learn how to do better distribution, how to win over large customers, how to scale manufacturing, how to develop a niche market and be known as best-in-class in that niche. They struggle to maintain cost advantages. But then the world changes. It globalizes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 13, 2024

Many of my team's been distributed. That's been something people have been talking about for 10 years offshore, they used to call it, I don't think they call it that so much anymore, but the idea of there are actually places you can get remote workers for much less than say a US wage would be for various reasons. Yeah, exactly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 3, 2022

5:12] What are some things that people are doing to develop their company culture with distributed teams? [10:12] And so you work with a lot of folks whose entire teams are distributed. If you hate systems and processes, you're not that person don't try and be that person you're actually costing your business money.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 2, 2020

Whether you’re preparing your checklist for building an offshore company or getting a better understanding of the labor industry, the ever-changing business landscape has made it necessary for businesses to distribute work better. Outsourcing can be broken down into three types: offshoring, nearshoring, and onshoring.

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Austin Startup

JULY 21, 2010

You could even offshore that task, to attempt to reduce the cost. You could massively distribute this task, similar to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. But there might be more interesting ways to provide monitoring. What if you hired a security guard to monitor, let’s say, a dozen video feeds for suspicious activity?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2014

Low cost, high volume offshore link building is not only dead, it’s super risky. If you are using an offshore link building strategy, you may soon find your website flagged with a Manual Action or an Unnatural Link Warning message in your Webmaster Tools account. The Fall of Boiler Room Link Building – Hip, Hip, Hooray!

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

But, in 2018, incremental gains no longer cost $1 million either: You have more data; Storage is cheap; and. Teams know how many tickets were distributed; however, they do not know in “real time” how many people are in the venue or stadium during the event. Full warehouses cost money; empty shelves cost money.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. Trip 1 to China to understand manufacturing landscape, potential partners and rough cost of goods. to understand distribution channel landscape, potential partners and rough cost of customer acquisition.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. The threat is here it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier. The threat is here; it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier. This post offers a few days’ worth of thinking about what I saw. (If

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Her production costs are $30 and she is selling the product for $32.50 She is looking to move production offshore where costs will drop to $11.36, but has not done so yet. She agreed to invest at the terms that were asked for, $65,000 for 25% of the company, and to help with production and distribution. This was charity.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2016

The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. The threat is here it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier. These tours are scheduled when the carriers are offshore training, not when they are deployed on missions. And we have a lot of them on order.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

So one of the challenges I suppose is somebody creates a good product, maybe they raise the money in a Kickstarter kind of way, but distribution is really going to make the difference. What’s the best path for that kind of maker to circumvent the traditional distribution channels?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Thus why I decided to wait until the market allowed for low cost investment. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B)

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

sites from scratch - Experienced with the majority of the social api’s (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Meebo, PayPal, Flickr) - Experience managing offshore dev teams - Most recently a Director of Product Development at an early stage funded startup [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: finding your co-founders [.]

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. Or more precisely the people espousing the benefits of distributed startups teams are often distributed and therefore self rationalizing it.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Youll estimate time and cost better. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Thinking of your project in milestones makes all the difference.

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