Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

scale – this may include the need to go offshore. Often startup directors bring strong skills in financial management in high growth contexts, marketing and sales expertise, mergers and acquisitions, technical knowledge of the product, their networks, CEO experience and team management expertise. pivot the business. change the CEO.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Optimizing profit above else led to wholesale offshoring of manufacturing and entire industries in order to lower costs. While the Dept of Defense has encouraged starting new ventures, it has failed to match it with the acquisition dollars to scale them. We ran our economy on this theory as a bipartisan experiment in the U.S.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Mergers and acquisitions are always fraught with danger both financially and culturally. which he and two partners started in 1987 to design and build offshore oil platforms. At Boeing, engineers were king. At McDonnell Douglas, the bottom line ruled. In the end, the McDonnell Douglas culture prevailed.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 1, 2023

Although we think of scaling issues as primarily startup issues, any company can face scaleup issues for example, through a merger or acquisition that changes your landscape immediately. The first one When to hire your first CCO is here and What does Great Look Like in a CCO is here).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. to understand distribution channel landscape, potential partners and rough cost of customer acquisition.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

But the press (and I suspect many of the senior execs of these companies) don’t really explore the corrosive downside of these acquisition. If I don’t commit to millions of dollars of acquisitions I will … die? So I thought I would. Let’s assume an early-stage company around for 2 years with limited traction.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

It was a job I had once loved – working around the world as an Offshore Co-ordinator for a subsea construction company in the oil industry. The motivation for starting my business was to escape a job I had come to despise and to gain a sense of freedom and independence. However, as the company evolved so had my job.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

10k can pay for a senior offshore developer ($15/hour) full-time for 4 months. Think 1-3 person teams who release v1.0 in 4-6 months (mostly SaaS startups and MicroISVs). In this scenario, $5k or $10k goes a long way towards bringing a product to fruition.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

These vary wildly but a really good logo can be had for around $500 and offshore graphics people are fairly cheap ($25-35/hr range). And that’s just for the popular variations on a few different domains. I’d also include logo design and graphic design. These are typically separate from the web designer. 27 Wayne Iyer on 01.08.09

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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] Skip Bronkie Just an all around great post.

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