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6 Reasons IT Outsourcing Software Development To Eastern Europe is on the Rise in the US: Key Benefits and Trends

The Startup Magazine

The primary reason for this shift is the talent pool in countries like Ukraine and Poland, where there are many highly skilled IT professionals. The region offers a highly skilled workforce, often at a fraction of the cost of hiring locally.

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Pros and Cons of the Offshore Company for Software Development

The Startup Magazine

Worldwide talent hiring. Hiring an expert from, say, Ukraine or another offshore development center may significantly lower the cost of paying programmers’ salaries, as well as totally eliminate the expense of equipment purchases and utility costs, whether the customer is based in the US, EU, UK, or Australia.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine.

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How I hired a great web developer on oDesk for $12/hr

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Hire two or three great candidates for a trial. The signal to noise ratio is usually very good and I like their communication style, direct borderline rude I have hired developers from India in the past but it is harder to find the good ones among a lot of low quality applications. Ratings: I request the developers to have at least 4.5

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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

So in terms of hiring, get people that can help you build the product faster… anything that minimizes the time between observing a need or a problem, and the execution or the fix for it.” Early hires are super important: check for skills, motivation and cultural fit. Remember that speed is the secret weapon of startups.

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Supercharge Growth Without Raising Money

YoungUpstarts

Myself and the other founders managed to develop our company and generate more than 200,000,000 visits, hire 22 people, get 3,000+ customers, and promote products for the likes of Creative Labs, Polaroid, and Sony. I hired our first editor as well as a couple blog authors to help us generate content faster. The Beginning.

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Can you hire an all-remote team using freelance platforms only?

Transformify

The ‘’Gig Economy’’ series sheds light on the future of work and the pros and cons of hiring freelancers and gig workers. My COO is a doctorate from Ukraine, where the economy has not treated him well, but he is one of the most hardworking and intelligent people I’ve ever met. I live in Los Angeles.

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