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what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Finally, venture capital and angel investing is no longer a U.S. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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