Staff augmentation is the synergy between external resources and the core team operating as employees or contractors within an organization. When the core team needs additional help, augmentation is a necessity to adhere to internal processes, follow protocol, sit in scheduled meetings, and ensure that the entire team—internal and exter...
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How Do Entrepreneurs Handle the Stress That Comes With Managing a Business?
Stress management is a combination of juggling priorities and energy balance. It’s a sophisticated topic by itself. My best advice for people dreaming of entrepreneurship is to join a fast-paced environment that is stress-tolerant. Handling stress is a skill by itself. Coming unprepared for entrepreneurship may be a massive cult...
Why Is It So Hard to Find a Tech Cofounder?
For every large group of business owners and founders looking for a technical partner, there is an equally large group of technical people wondering where the business folks are. Regardless of whether you're selling to a client, pitching to an investor, looking for employees or a partner, the approach is fairly similar and this requires 3...
What Are Some Good Team Building Activities for a Distributed Team?
Being able to gather everyone together at an annual summit is definitely great, although not always possible for smaller distributed teams. How do we ensure that we remain bonded as we establish a solid team? Here are several activities that we incorporate into our workflow: 1. Regular group chats - We have a weekly Monday kick-off ...
Is Becoming an Entrepreneur Better for Young People Than Becoming an Employee?
I could tell you a magical story about my chill weekends and how I wake up with another $10K or so every morning under my pillow. But, that’s far from the truth. I’m responding to Slack messages discussing some assignments with my team and replying to customer emails in the meantime. I’m actually a supporter of full-time ...
Is Launching Multiple Startups a Good Idea?
If you are a new entrepreneur who cannot afford to invest in building multiple platforms and hire a team for each venture, stick to a single startup at first. People who own multiple businesses have spent over a decade building a career, saving capital, creating a network, and studying the foundations of sales, marketing, busine...
What Should I Do in Order to Find a Business to Start or a Product to Sell?
“I am having a hard time trying to find a business idea or product to sell. What should I do in order to find a business to start or a product to sell? I need something I can put my time into and work on, so I don’t have to work for other people.” Coming up with ideas to find a business to start or a product to sell is easy. Findi...
Which Business Has the Lowest Barrier to Entry With the Highest ROI?
"I want to start a business, not a start-up. Which business has the lowest barrier to entry with the highest ROI?" The highest possible ROI is usually related to shady deals in the gray area (or outright illegal ones). Due to the nature of those business ventures, ROI is massive simply because the stakes are high and you can easily get ca...
Are There Too Many People Trying to Become Entrepreneurs Right Now? Could It Take Away Opportunities and Limit Success?
Are there too many people trying to become entrepreneurs right now? Will the field become too crowded? Could it take away opportunities and limit success? Entrepreneurship has been on the rise for the past couple of decades or so. Starting your own venture is easier than ever.Most countries allow for conducting business in different ...
Do SEO Plugins Dramatically Slow Down the WordPress Site?
Most of the existing SEO plugins add some processing and requests to every page load, but it usually isn’t that bad. In any proper setup, caching plays an important role in processing the page generation ones (PHP evaluation + the corresponding database queries to pull the right data based on user capabilities, taxonomies, U...