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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. Focus on operational processes, rather than innovative new ones. Don’t let leading edge become bleeding edge.

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How to Handle Competition as a Startup

The Startup Magazine

Success often hinges on careful strategic planning and adapting to market shifts. Entrepreneurs need to define their market niche and craft effective competitive strategies to counteract competitive pressures. Source Leverage Advanced Technologies Harnessing advanced technologies can transform how startups operate and compete.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Sam & Rahul have worked closely together on “innovate & operate” since the earliest days of MakeSpace. How profitable is my product or service?

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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

View from Seed

For the last several years, the early stage investing market was driven largely by the F ear O f M issing O ut, AKA FOMO. VCs are always founder focused no matter the market environment. But part of the trend was because of the relative unattractiveness of the Bay Area due to prices, wages, rents, and competition.

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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

Both Sides of the Table

Today’s $24 billion storage market in the US has these same key disadvantages and that was the genesis of Sam Rosen’s initial idea for MakeSpace , which I initially funded 15 months ago. Tech Market Analysis Upfront Ventures makespace' Sam moved back to NY and we announced our seed round of capital, which we led.

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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

Modern businesses rely on technology to support their operations. As businesses rely on technology more, the demand for tech proficiency and the effective implementation of solutions grows as well. Today, you can measure if a company is well-managed from how it implements and uses technology. Security as a Process.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

We just held our seventeenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.