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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. Many such ‘congratulations’ will come from consultants. There is nothing under the sun that will suck up your time and money faster, more prodigiously and less effectively than a consultant.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks? Lots of thoughts here. You’ll get suggestions for improvements.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks? Lots of thoughts here. You’ll get suggestions for improvements.

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

crowdSPRING Blog

25% of a marketer’s capacity is a huge investment by any measure and outsourcing the effort starts to look attractive to many managers and many have hired outside consultants to help. Beware, however, a loss of control over messaging, increased costs, and poor integration with your other marketing efforts. Outsourcing social media.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

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Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. No one funded us. No one was gonna fund us. And I’m definitely a nobody. Starting is a declarative act. Just go for it. Pitch like a mofo.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. I won’t sugar-coat this: it is one of the most difficult and frustrating aspects of building a company online.

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