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Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. Too often, assumptions about the potential market and its clients can cloud our judgement about expenses. The costs soon proved much greater than expected.

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Revenge of the HourlyNerds

Harvard Business Review

Last week’s news that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban put $450K into the $750K seed round of consulting startup HourlyNerd should make traditional consultants nervous. business schools and select international schools to bid on consulting projects that have been posted by prospective clients, mostly small business owners.