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5 Keys To A Viable Spending Rate And Cash Management

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent or looking for the next refueling from investors. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day.

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8 Tactics For Every Entrepreneur To Manage Technology

Startup Professionals Musings

Only one component of running a business is managing technology, but it is a critical component, so no entrepreneur can afford to ignore it or totally delegate it. That means every entrepreneur needs to learn how to attract, hire, and manage technical people for their team. Don’t fall for a technical pitch you can’t fathom.

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Guide to Mastering Contractor Management

Transformify

But effectively managing these specialists calls for a different strategy. Through effective project outcomes and the development of mutually beneficial partnerships, this guide seeks to assist businesses in mastering the art of contractor management. Why is Managing Your Independent Contractors so Important?

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Match Algorithm and Inputs

SoCal CTO

One of the common questions that I commonly get is: Tony, what inputs should we use as the basis for our matching algorithm? The people asking the above question don’t have that research and they also don’t really know how the matches should occur. How should the resulting algorithm use those inputs to form matches?

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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If they or you find it hard to trust others, love to work alone, always have to be in control, or insist on micro-managing, it may be time for change or looking elsewhere. Neither partner needs to be managed.

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10 Remote Staffing Blunders That Will Cost You Dearly

Startup Professionals Musings

There are many books written on this subject, but this classic by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen. Contractors and freelancers, like any other business, manage their own internal processes, but they can’t manage your business.

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Meeting Customer Expectations: Importance, Strategies to Exceed Them, and Management Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

You must continue to learn various strategies to keep matching these expectations. These expectations in turn shape your brand’s customer service to match these demands. Many technological tools exist to help match customer expectations.