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Six Criteria for Outsourcing the Right Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Creative or operational.

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Six Key Factors in the Right Outsourcing Decision

Startup Professionals Musings

Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Creative or operational.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

We interviewed the heads of the top Web and mobile development companies, incubators, agencies and labs to understand what it takes to design and develop the most successful apps of our generation. If you asked me to build Facebook.com for you, I would quote you $500,000 and nine months of development and design time,” says Schippers.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Because although the investment bank offers a comfortable salary, it is not scalable. I saw a chance to use my business experience combined with an eye for design and architecture to find new opportunities in real estate. My earning potential was capped. But with a blog business, the sky's the limit!

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Demystifying the Various Tax Exemptions: 501(c)(3) vs. 501(c)(4)

Board Effect

Both designations fall under the umbrella of nonprofit organizations, and these classifications are only 2 of the 29 different types of nonprofits that fall under the U.S. They include: Directors, officers, and individuals may be paid a salary from their work, but they can’t use nonprofit funds to benefit them in any other way.

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To Outsource or Not to Outsource Software

Startup Professionals Musings

Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Creative or operational.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.