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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. Focus on operational processes, rather than innovative new ones.

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6 Startup Lessons Learned By Passionate Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, most people believe that Bill Gates started with a simple purchase of a base operating system leading to MS-DOS and Microsoft, but Mars points out that Bill spent thousands of hours in some computer rooms working on software day and night. Know yourself and find help to fill in the gaps.

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30 Entrepreneurs Say What Changes They Expect in Their Business Due to Technology

Hearpreneur

Technology disruption is happening at a rapid pace all around us. We asked our entrepreneurs what changes do they expect due to technology shortly, and this is what they have to say. #1- I also expect to see more technology to assist with personalized experiences at trade shows, both in person and virtually, shortly.

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How to Get Your Remote Accounts Team to Operate Efficiently

The Startup Magazine

However, with the right tech and employee training, it can be a seamless process. Among the departments transitioning to remote operations, the accounts team holds particular significance. The document management software will of course have remote file management features.

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4 Essential Steps to Create Strong Standard Operating Procedures

The Startup Magazine

Creating standard operating procedures (SOP) documents is essential for organizing your entire business operations. By having a well-crafted SOP in place, businesses can be certain that operations are conducted efficiently and according to plan. Having access to this data makes it easy to set goals and make decisions quickly.

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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

View from Seed

This led to a number of repercussions that most VC’s have lamented during this time, including higher prices, larger rounds, shoddy due diligence, and many companies raising large sums of venture capital that probably aren’t suited to VC funding. In a FOLD world, this is going to continue.

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Significance of Strategic Operations Management in the Electronics Industry

The Startup Magazine

The giants in electronic industries have updated themselves in almost every aspect, be it operations, supply chain, repair and maintenance, or consumer-based research and development. Strategic operations management in the electronic industry is not easy.