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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints. Don’t let leading edge become bleeding edge.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints. Don’t let leading edge become bleeding edge.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints. Marty Zwilling.

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6 Ways To Prevent Disastrous Outsourcing Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints. Don’t let leading edge become bleeding edge.

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What is the secret to remote work? Just ask your Sales team.

Austin Startup

Halong Bay, Vietnam The world has changed. The hype cycle for “Remote Work” and “Distributed Companies” has reached a fever pitch, and everyone has an opinion about it. In a distributed environment, work is often solitary. To combat this, distributed companies should document everything. They always come prepared.

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My Favorite Entrepreneur Story in a Long Time

Both Sides of the Table

It was about the founder of Sriracha sauce, David Tran, displaced from Vietnam when the North’s communists took power. Turns out it is a family-owned business started by a refugee from Vietnam and named after a small village in Thailand Si Racha. What lessons could you learn from a Vietnam refugee who makes chili sauce?

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

alone, topping half a million — exceeding the number of deaths across World Wars I and II and Vietnam combined) to devastating economic burdens ( exacerbating pre-pandemic record levels of income inequality). And the shift to remote work could be an initial gateway to other policy changes that could help distribute opportunity.