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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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

You need to think through and address these business planning concerns before beginning with team formation and content development. Localization is a technical process involving software developers as well as linguists. Software doesn’t tolerate disorder in process or in sequence.

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. As a development manager I have, over the years, utilized development teams in India, China and Russia.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. The innovation sector differs from other industries in how it generates profits.

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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. For example, 90% of the software used in China and Vietnam today is pirated.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Compressing the Product Development Cycle. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Starting now.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 6, 2018

India, on the other hand, upheld its banking ban for crypto exchanges, which has led to exchanges there innovating on crypto-to-crypto trading, while they await further regulatory clarity on the sector expected July 20th.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2015

These steps will help your company to develop a distinctive social media ‘voice’ and stand out from the crowd [7]. Tools like this quickly help you to develop a feel for what tactics work best. Find out what works through constant monitoring. It can trawl the internet for mentions of your business or products.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley’s first microwave devices and semiconductor components. China has simply become the factory. In the 1950’s and ‘60’s U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

He gossips with the office manager who tells 3 software developers. I don’t like distributed development teams in early stage businesses. As your company develops you’ll obviously need to hire sales talent in multiple locations. I’m fine with key developers being in a remote location.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

web development projects. Tom Nora Startup Whisperer, Web Market Development. I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients. People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.”

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. Work from home and remote work also significantly cut office costs.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. By Ben Bakhshi. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2012

Cheatsheets Wallpapers For Web Designers And Developers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Is China Really Set To Dominate The World In This Century? Will India Ever Really Be America’s Partner? – [link].

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Jason Ball

FEBRUARY 16, 2008

Qualcomm, Inc ( NASDAQ: QCOM ) announced their European fund last May , in addition to Qualcomm Ventures in the US, China and India.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

gave up 70% of the company to American Research & Development Corp. China Lifts Spending as Growth Ebbs. China Lifts Spending as Growth Ebbs China is ramping up state spending to counter its sharpest drop in growth since the financial crisis, further entrenching state-owned firms. WSJ India Page. My Journal.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Heres the source code,” make sure you finish with something like, “For completion of this project, please have this up and running on a development webserver I can access to test its functionality as described.” The requirements are as follows.”

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