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Six Criteria for Outsourcing the Right Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. If your software is your solution and “secret sauce,” don’t entrust it to outsiders of any kind.

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Six Key Factors in the Right Outsourcing Decision

Startup Professionals Musings

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. If your software is your solution and “secret sauce,” don’t entrust it to outsiders of any kind.

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work. For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. So What Does this Have to Do With A Founding Team?

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Hypotheses about Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials found on the left side of canvas are as, or more important than those on the right side of the canvas. We needed to cover Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials a month earlier in the class than in the current format. (You

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To Outsource or Not to Outsource Software

Startup Professionals Musings

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. If your software is your solution and “secret sauce,” don’t entrust it to outsiders of any kind.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

After saying I wanted to develop a product that would make a client’s glossy and then she would just toss it around (I like careless hair) I said I didn’t know what to call it and said you just called it yourself – GLOSS & TOSS. The rest is history. Thanks to Billy Lowe, Gloss & Toss® ! #6-

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

Details: So, at the beginning of his post, to him an idea is something worth protecting as intellectual property. And, with irony, at this point one might guess that the pill was "50 years ahead" of the state of the art, the rest of medical science, or something or other, maybe your "market", and all that will matter not at all.

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