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5 Reasons To Enlist Outside Advisors For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience as an angel investor for new startups, I’m always surprised by how many entrepreneurs are looking for funding without outside advisors. 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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5 Ways A Startup Benefits From Dual Partner Strengths

Startup Professionals Musings

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. In reality, I’m one of the majority of investors who believe that startup success is more about the execution than the idea.

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10 Remote Staffing Blunders That Will Cost You Dearly

Startup Professionals Musings

These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. When you sign up remote workers, you’ll start to rely heavily on collaborative tools, Internet bandwidth, and new data security tools. My IT budget will go down as remote users use their own tools.”

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How Remote Startups are Changing the Game for Everyone

ReadWriteStart

Here is how remote startups are changing the game for everyone. In fact, according to Founders Forum’s survey of 400+ startup owners, 94% of the respondents were already working from home before the pandemic. To help them make the transition, a new breed of “remote startups” has emerged. Image Credit: pixaby.

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Will Austin build transformative high-bandwidth applications?

Austin Startup

Austin’s makers, developers, and entrepreneurs will then have an opportunity to compete for cash prizes that will be awarded to the top developers who can come up with applications ideas that utilize gigabit bandwidth and or require extremely low latency.

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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. The post Website Design Tactics to Reduce the Bounce Rate appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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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. Very few entrepreneurs have the skills and bandwidth to adequately cover all the business bases of product, marketing, and finance. More money would solve all your startup problems.

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