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Five Pitfalls to Avoid When Offshoring Software Development

The Startup Magazine

Have you ever looked for software development talent abroad? Doesn’t it seem to you that all the benefits of this business model are too good to be true? 1 Failing to choose a proper business model. 1 Failing to choose a proper business model. Source: Pixabay. 2 Preferring the cheapest.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Companies They are Starting in 2023

Hearpreneur

. #1- Virtual assistance Photo Credit: Abdul Saboor It is my opinion that the need for virtual assistants is great since there is such a high demand for new businesses and there is such a large increase in the number of new enterprises opening their doors. To begin drop-shipping, you must locate a supplier and develop a website.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. What are the most common skills in each category?

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My Top 10 for 2018

Start Up Blog

Podcast Series of the year: The Dream by Stitcher is a brilliant review of the history of Multi-Level Marketing (MLMs), pyramid selling and their total dodginess. The ironic thing about these MLMs is that the philosophy they sell is all true (in relation to business success), but the business model they attach to it is a total fraud.

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Build, Buy Or Build To Buy

YoungUpstarts

One of the reasons that we won this firm’s business was our willingness to work with their team to add features to our platform and devote resources to ensure that it met their current expectations, while soliciting their feedback for further product enhancements. There are sound arguments to be made for both approaches.

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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

ConversionXL

The product or website (be it software, e-commerce, or a service) might be awesome , but if it puts itself in front of the wrong market, or packages itself so the right market can’t figure out why it’s awesome, the startup will fail. This is a customer development problem. So What is Customer Development?

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Lessons Learned from a Software Developer’s First Attempt at Launching a Startup

Software By Rob

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next?