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Paul Herdsman Of NICE Global: The Benefits Of Utilizing Nearshore Outsourcing For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

While traditional offshoring to Asia or Eastern Europe has always been lauded for its cheap labor, for companies that practice agile, or require better collaboration, communication, and a higher level of engagement, the advantages of nearshore software development are clear. What is the difference between offshoring and nearshoring?

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Takeaways from 2020

Hearpreneur

A few years ago outsourcing resources offshore was all the rage. As a result the transition to remote was relatively painless but this meant managing every employee as if they are offshore. Well as we ramped up to hire again with our pre-pandemic growth we’ve now expanded our hiring globally for new employees.

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How Today’s Startups Can Adapt to a Globally Distributed Model

ReadWriteStart

Although it’s tempting to blame it all on the coronavirus situation and its formidable ripples, the pandemic only accelerated the processes of globalization and digitization that have been underway for decades. Still, COVID-19 helped tip the balance towards a globally distributed model. The world of work is transforming.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

For consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers. The globalization of entrepreneurship means the worldwide pool of potential startups has increased at least ten fold since the turn of this century. The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

And for consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers. And the globalization of entrepreneurship means the worldwide pool of potential startups has increased at least 100-fold since the turn of this century. China has simply become the factory.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

When you outsource…at least in the early days…it matters little wheter you pick a local bank or a global one. One consideration that comes up often when outsourcing is whether to go with a local or offshore vendor. Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

If you want the site to translate ancient Arabic poetry to Spanish to increase global tolerance, just say, “Translate paragraphs from Arabic to Spanish.” Maybe this is because I run offshore software development company and have seen a LOT of people coming asking for help after dealing with freelancers. Be succinct.