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One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy

ReadWriteStart

Outsourcing – or relocating – the work can be a great to overcome those obstacles while controlling costs, increasing efficiency and even making workers happier. After six months, I was able to sign up a local CTO to help build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that enabled me to secure funding.

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SXSW Startups: TransferFi

Austin Startup

It will be used to power Industrial IoT sensors to reduce wiring complexity and to high-power applications that will provide easy access to primary sources of energy such as remote and offshore renewable. Singapore would save more than 50 percent of cabling and installation cost for any sensor deployment.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. Vlad and his team at DarwinApps are considering launching DevFund — their attempt at cofounding companies by developing the MVP technology.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. It seems like you were looking more for someone to code your site without much cost, than someone with total buy in to your idea and to you as an individual. I was basically a consultant without the payment and I basically got taken advantage of. Act accordingly.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

But as any programmer will tell you (I’m one), any lucrative contract or full time job you can get, especially these days, will usually leave you so burnt out by the end of the day that the last thing you will want to do is sit down and bang out more code. The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

CEO, VP Products and CTO must all be in the physical location. It’s true that call centers often employ tons of employees who are often lower cost per person than your development team or other staff members and therefore it’s often effective to have call centers in lower-cost cities away from your home office.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Youll estimate time and cost better. I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand.