At a recent WeTeachMe event held at the York Butter Factory co-working space in Melbourne, we were asked to speak about Outsourcing for Startups. What areas of outsourcing apply to startups? We define outsourcing as “a highly-skilled services marketplace”. This implies that you’re using a marketplace environment to procure
If you’re a startup hiring freelancers on one of the popular freelancing sites, use this handy checklist to keep the quality high. These are the top 10 things we do to help select quality, professional freelancers: 1. Set up a Google Docs spreadsheet so that you can share information
GetViable was invited to the first Making Melbourne a Global Entrepreneurship Hub conference on 31 March 2012 at the Fitzroy Town Hall to share the GetViable startup story. It was rewarding to experience the energy from the primarily student based audience and the hunger for learning. The topics for the
Derek Singleton, an ERP Analyst that covers job shop manufacturing software, recently posted an excellent view onThree Ways to Bring Crowdsourcing into Mainstream Manufacturing. [ff @ERPAdvice] Derek’s view is that crowd adoption by the manufacturing industry can be accelerated by addressing 3 main areas: 1. Ease into crowdsourcing for
Even though many businesses are now active members of the Twitter community, many others still fail to understand how Twitter could be of benefit to them, or feel that social networking is irrelevant to their business. However, using Twitter can have advantages for almost any business — here’s how… Firstly,
Wow — what an experience. Seamless, clean, easy & slick. I posted this on Facebook and got an awesome response that I thought worth sharing as it turned into a great discussion on the future of Microsoft, Apple and the cloud. [ff Rog42 LeslieCBarry] [box] Rog42 As an ex-Senior Microsoft Manager
Co-Working Spaces: @yorkbutter @HubMelbourne @inspire9 @startupaus Events: The Fetch — directory of events in Melbourne Melbourne Silicon Beach Meetup — great for general startup networking and drinks. $200 prize for best pitch. Lean Startup Melbourne Meetup — good crowd and worthwhile. collaboratory Melbourne Meetup — aimed at social entrepreneurship. Online news: Startupsmart.com — online
Every day I see businesses struggling with this very simple issue, an issue that defines the essence of how a business operates. Efficiency vs Effectiveness. credit : mansikka on Flickr Work Hard, not Smart. When I work with an efficient business, they’re often very short term focused, burning resources, all
See Previous: Agile 2011 Sprint 4: Stimulate your thinking process In a panel discussion on ‘Agile cannot be done for a fixed-price’ Patrick Eltridge, the Telstra CIO elaborated on how to get skin in the game. His view is that it’s about culture and trust. One of the constraints
See Previous: Agile 2011 Sprint 3: Agile Leadership Lessons Stimulate your thinking process [ff @jeantabaka @agileblog @rallysoftware] Day 2 kicked off with a presentation from Jean Tabaka, an Agile Coach from Rally Software, that split the audience down the middle. Half ‘got it’ and realised that the purpose of her
See Previous: Agile 2011 Sprint 2: Early vs Late Learning Agile Leadership was discussed in various sessions, including the CIO panel moderated by Beverley Head (Freelance Journalist) with Steve Coles (Chief Information Officer, Allianz) , Jeff Smith (Chief Executive Officer, Suncorp Business Services, Suncorp) , John Sullivan (Head of Technology New Business
See Previous : Agile 2011 Sprint 1: The Craft-based Profession [ff @TotherAlistair] Alistair discussed Early learning vs late learning which clearly describes one of the major business benefits of Agile. This is that early, continuous integration allows early learning which leads to risk reduction. He emphasized creating deliberate experiments to increase