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

YoungUpstarts

In today’s ever-changing, highly competitive business climate, small startups and large companies alike are increasingly turning to outsourcing processes. What is the difference between offshoring and nearshoring? Put simply, offshore outsourcing means hiring a company to perform a service from a different part of the world.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. More to come.

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Affordable and Efficient App Development

The Startup Magazine

Are you are a startup that needs to market your products and services ? But the availability of outsourcing, offshoring, and outstaffing has pulled many away from the use of local developers. When you outsource your IT projects or hire an offshore development team, it comes with many benefits.

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

ReadWriteStart

Among its many implications, the digital office means that jobs don’t necessarily need to be done in-person, and today’s startup leaders are realizing that many projects can be done at a lower cost remotely, without any drop in quality. Support agile working practices. Image Credit: ketut subiyant; pexels.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software? Talk about waste.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. What kind of startup outsources everything? Well, you’re right, most don’t, but one example of a startup that does is PlentyOfFish. Also, most startup attorneys will do deferred payment plans.

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Can A Startup Do Offshore Development? Part 3

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Prosperati HOME BLOG ABOUT CONTACT Blog Can A Startup Do Offshore Development? Part 3 Posted 02.02.2010 in Blog A few months ago I wrote up my thoughts on offshore development within a technology startup context. Offshore startup development, when done right, can be extremely beneficial. WHERE ARE YOU?