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This is a guest post by Jude Kriwald. He is co-founder of Tech Relief, a UK startup closing the digital skills gap by providing friendly and empathetic support for people left frustrated by their computers.
Here’s Jude’s no-nonsense guide to setting up business operations for your online company, quickly and easily on a shoestring budget…
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Delegating effectively doesn’t come naturally to most people. I’ve coached many managers who struggle with workload because they spend precious time doing tasks their team is capable of. In my experience, great leaders and high performing teams have typically mastered the art of effective delegation…
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Shhh..! Don’t tell my clients. There are lots of consultants out there, offering all kinds of services, using a variety of approaches. But what is a startup operations consultant exactly? What do they do? And do you even need one..?
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Roles and responsibilities – sounds a little dry, right? But working in the world of startups, I’ve come across too many employees who simply don’t know what they’re supposed to be doing.
You know: the green as grass operations associate, who scurries round the office sheepishly asking how they can help…
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It’s easy to overcomplicate operations in a startup and make them hard to manage. It’s comparatively hard to simplify them and make them easy to manage. In 1960 US Navy engineers coined the design principle KISS – “Keep It Simple Stupid”. Here’s how to give your startup operations a big KISS…
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This is a guest post by operations executive Keir Tutt about scaling operations (learn about him below).
Building a startup seems like a simple formula. You come up with a great idea, perhaps you seek seed funding, then you develop a Minimum Viable Product, acquire customers and sell, sell, sell! Nothing else matters, right..? But once you get some pioneer customers on board and it becomes clear your MVP has legs, how do you progress quickly from hustling to scaling operations for growth – without everything falling apart?
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