Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 8, 2023
If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. Focus on operational processes, rather than innovative new ones.
The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 30, 2025
Expanding a business can be quite challenging due to its complexities. Achieving growth requires maintaining records and ensuring compliance while efficiently managing entities involved in developing and expanding business operations. Teams can swiftly make informed decisions with the power to access real-time data at their fingertips.
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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2022
Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. Operate with a comparable level of integrity. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 30, 2023
For example, most people believe that Bill Gates started with a simple purchase of a base operating system leading to MS-DOS and Microsoft, but Mars points out that Bill spent thousands of hours in some computer rooms working on software day and night. Know yourself and find help to fill in the gaps.
View from Seed
APRIL 14, 2020
This led to a number of repercussions that most VC’s have lamented during this time, including higher prices, larger rounds, shoddy due diligence, and many companies raising large sums of venture capital that probably aren’t suited to VC funding. In a FOLD world, this is going to continue.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
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. Sam’s enthusiasm was infectious and his plans were bold.
View from Seed
JANUARY 27, 2021
With the recent announcement of our fourth fund , we are expanding the team at NexView with a new Platform and Operations Associate. You have 2-4 years of professional experience in marketing, social media, event coordination, or business operations. Executing on internal administrative tasks related to day-to-day firm operations.
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