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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you. It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. But customers are not looking yet another homogeneous product or service, so be careful. Marty Zwilling.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you. It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. But customers are not looking yet another homogeneous product or service, so be careful. Marty Zwilling.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

Dont count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you. Its hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. But customers are not looking for yet another homogeneous product or service, so be careful. Marty Zwilling.

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6 Ways To Win By Creative Partnering With Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

As small companies, neither startup could afford to extend their product alone, but through creative leadership, we were able to negotiate a win-win strategic partnership for a joint product. It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support.

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6 Ways To Prevent Disastrous Outsourcing Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you. It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. But customers are not looking yet another homogeneous product or service, so be careful. Marty Zwilling.

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13 Helpful Organization and Productivity Apps For Small Businesses

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We are in a golden age for productivity apps. There are robust apps available that go beyond the productivity and document features you’d expect. Take a look and see how these 13 powerful organization and productivity tools can empower your small business with easy, accessible design. Enter RealtimeBoard.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

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So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. Trademarks , which we touched on last week, are brand and product names, graphic logos, slogans, taglines, and other indicators of origin of the goods or services in question. Hence this “Cliff’s Notes” refresher, to be followed by a discussion of why it matters.