Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Cost factors. The net may be less cost reduction than you thought. Marty Zwilling.

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. Managing offshore developers remotely The whole point in offshoring is to save money, right?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If you want to take your business to the next level, you should consider app development. Either way, custom software development is an effective way to build brand awareness and give your business a competitive edge. Some businesses utilize in-house development teams or local professionals.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 31, 2006

The buzz around offshoring has certainly died down over the last year. For a period of time, you could not pick up a magazine or read a newspaper without a lead article on the dangers of offshoring. " In other words, most software development opportunities are with consulting firms where employees work on a project basis.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 31, 2006

The buzz around offshoring has certainly died down over the last year. For a period of time, you could not pick up a magazine or read a newspaper without a lead article on the dangers of offshoring. " In other words, most software development opportunities are with consulting firms where employees work on a project basis.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? 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. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. Talk about waste.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The chart below shows the countries that support the most research and development initiatives of private companies. For example, the Candian companies can apply for a 43,5% refund for research and development costs if the R&D process landed in Australia. Direct government funding and tax support for business R&D.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In some strange way, a big part of his competitive advantage is that he is able to outsource everything and maintain such a low cost structure. where you can leverage some internal “low cost&# time. One consideration that comes up often when outsourcing is whether to go with a local or offshore vendor. So it can be done.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

This discussion began last week and has fostered some great comments and resources… Offshore resources/Europe company for U.S. web development projects. Tom Nora Startup Whisperer, Web Market Development. I’ve used some local and some offshore resources and avoided larger outsourcing companies.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. The main causes are: Client fails to precisely express their requirements to the vendor; Client continuously changes their mind during the development process; A poorly constructed development contract.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, The x-axis depicts technical complexity, risk, and cost which are all related. Use prototyping to lower technical risks and costs. agile software development. (46). agile software development. (46).

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

10k can pay for a senior offshore developer ($15/hour) full-time for 4 months. The majority of an application’s expense is in maintenance, so if a business can drop an initial deposit and never worry about construction costs and all that nasty maintenance stuff it’s an appealing scenario.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

The comments here and on a few social bookmarking sites mentioned that you could quit your day job if you wanted to, and that you could live on $2500/month just fine in many cities in the world (although in my hypothetical situation I was speaking about a developer based in the hypothetical U.S.). Costs range from $300-$1000 per year.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If you want to build a business that requires software, be prepared to invest a little money. I recently met a junior software developer working for $200/week + room & board at a business geeks house. The business geek needed a working software prototype and the programmer needed experience.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. For consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers. The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry. In the 1950’s and ‘60’s U.S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

He gossips with the office manager who tells 3 software developers. 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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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Youll estimate time and cost better. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. " And looking at the requirements, I didnt think it was difficult to find a programmer to develop that.

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