Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

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. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Few small to medium sized businesses can afford a separate software development department. If you do not currently have an application on this platform, you are missing out on potentially hundreds of millions of consumers over time. This is a great deal of money left on the table for such a small up front investment.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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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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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 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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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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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For example, Fayrix is an offshore software development company with multi-domain expertise in innovation development and experience setting up research and development centers. Indeed, the companies face the need to access tech, science, and human resources, so partnering with a dedicated vendor can be an option.

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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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Andrew Payne

MARCH 27, 2014

It’s not the endless beta-test that software developers have, but it moves in that direction. It’s certainly possible that Kickstarter is the strategy fad of the decade, much like India offshore development was 10+ years ago. But I don’t think so: the hardware presale is here to stay!'

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Labels: about me , agile planning , agile software development , cio , innovation , it management , organizational change , product management , project management , software development , software qa.

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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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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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Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

   He's also requiring that you source your software development through his consulting company at a price "to be negotiated."  "  Finally, if you fail to agree on a price for the development within 6 months, he gets his money back with 18% interest.    Does this happen? 

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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. Think 1-3 person teams who release v1.0 in 4-6 months (mostly SaaS startups and MicroISVs). In this scenario, $5k or $10k goes a long way towards bringing a product to fruition.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

So if you think about it, large companies were offshoring, I don't know, 30, 40 years ago they started. Number one, more small and mid-sized businesses being open to offshoring. What that means is if they have a job that can be done remotely and it's not too specialized, let's say like a software developer, they just start us.

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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. If your software is your solution and “secret sauce,” don’t entrust it to outsiders of any kind.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense. 4 Inflecto [Software Developers] on 01.08.09 at 9:05 am We are a small development company which develops bespoke software. Costs range from $300-$1000 per year. It adds up.

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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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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

For the vast majority of software startups, the actual code / development process is infrequently a competitive advantage; ergo, you ought to consider outsourcing. One consideration that comes up often when outsourcing is whether to go with a local or offshore vendor.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

He gossips with the office manager who tells 3 software developers. What about offshoring? First, many people confuse outsourcing and offshoring. Outsourcing is when somebody else builds your software. I prefer that early stage companies not offshore development. And it doesn’t stop there.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. China has simply become the factory.

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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.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. I would rather go for an established development company which can easily scale development team as project grows. Also consider hiring by recommendation.

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