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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about bringing the work back home, since costs have gone up in less-developed countries, there are issues with intellectual property, and time zone and language differences make management difficult. Keep intellectual property keys in-house.

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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about bringing the work back home, since costs have gone up in less-developed countries, there are issues with intellectual property, and time zone and language differences make management difficult. Keep intellectual property keys in-house.

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5 Equity Distribution Parameters For Key Contributors

Startup Professionals Musings

Your idea is not intellectual property yet, so it has no inherent value. Cofounders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. Every previous experience filing and winning a patent is a rare and valuable asset.

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Or if you’re building consumer electronics the key activities might be: low cost hardware design, high volume manufacturing, user interface design, consumer branding and retail distribution. Therefore the ideal medical device team might be a physician; engineer; operator; business development/financial analyst.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

Recently, Ive seen a lot of discussion about bringing the work back home, since costs have gone up in less-developed countries, there are issues with intellectual property, and time zone and language differences make management difficult. Keep intellectual property keys in-house.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) I realized we were trying to conform to a lecture order optimized for web, mobile, hardware.

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10 Popular Business Strategies That Most Often Fail

Startup Professionals Musings

Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. Don’t get caught in the myth that you shouldn’t worry about monetization until after you have a large customer base. Assume passion level defines business opportunity.