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Six Criteria for Outsourcing the Right Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

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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Six Key Factors in the Right Outsourcing Decision

Startup Professionals Musings

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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It’s An Agile World

Feld Thoughts

One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” ” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. operates at seven 9s reliability.

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4 Things I’ve Learned As An Entrepreneur Right Out Of College

Up and Running

He moved out to Colorado to attend CU Boulder, starting a degree in Architecture only to find out he was more passionate about Business. Solve the rest later. Alex understood he knew next to nothing about software development and engineering, so he searched for an engineer. Your startup becomes irrelevant.

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To Outsource or Not to Outsource Software

Startup Professionals Musings

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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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

Tools, especially broader tools like programming languages, come with a lot of baggage, an attitude or even a philosophy on software development. For example, we picked Clojure for our development work. The main driver for that is the degree to which it will impact how the rest of your software is written.

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

SoCal CTO

No communication between developers. No one owns architecture. Rogue developers with their own agenda. Developers are very quite when bugs, features, changes are being discussed and only come back with questions later. One of your better developers leaves. Software development is challenging.

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