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How much bandwidth does your business need?

NZ Entrepreneur

With modern technology and digital ways of working available (and constantly evolving), it brings into sharp focus the question – is your internet bandwidth up to the job? First of all, what is bandwidth? Simply put, a higher bandwidth means a higher volume of data can flow through at a faster rate. How much is enough?

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5 Reasons To Enlist Outside Advisors For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Remember that people make a business, more often than a product. Learn how to budget your time and select productive relationships. At the very least, these board members extend your bandwidth to provide a presence at more industry events and networking conferences. Bandwidth is a constraint we all feel.

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10 Remote Staffing Blunders That Will Cost You Dearly

Startup Professionals Musings

Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. When you sign up remote workers, you’ll start to rely heavily on collaborative tools, Internet bandwidth, and new data security tools. Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects.

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6 Startup Challenges That Can Be Mitigated With Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. In reality, more features will more likely make the product confusing and less usable to all. Broad product offerings require too much infrastructure.

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Website Design Tactics to Reduce the Bounce Rate

The Startup Magazine

Some of the best ways to speed up your site loading are to optimize the size of your images so that they consume less internet bandwidth, however, you should take care to ensure the quality of the images is not compromised. You should remove all the plugins you do not require since having too many of them can slow down the site significantly.

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6 Reasons Why More Is Not Better In Your Next Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. In reality, more features will more likely make the product confusing and less usable to all. Broad product offerings require too much infrastructure.

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6 Myths On Starting A New Business That Can Kill You

Startup Professionals Musings

Starting a new business is fraught with challenges, and none of us has the bandwidth to kill them all. For example, if you start a new business with a software product you developed, you really need to know the basics of marketing and finance, but you will probably never be the expert in marketing and finance you require.

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