Managing Start-Up Costs in Tough Times: Non-legal Services
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
In addition to saving money on lawyers, can one save money on other service providers without sacrificing quality? Yes, tough economic times have motivated all service firms to be more reasonable. But it's also motivated many of them to try to offload costs onto existing, inattentive clients in order to cover overhead that used to be paid by a larger group of customers. Thus, active management of expenses is critical.
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