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Six Criteria for Outsourcing the Right Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property.

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Six Key Factors in the Right Outsourcing Decision

Startup Professionals Musings

Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property.

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6 Ways To Prevent Disastrous Outsourcing Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you. If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints. Don’t let leading edge become bleeding edge.

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To Outsource or Not to Outsource Software

Startup Professionals Musings

Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

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Programming Tutorials. Programming Tools. Custom Programming. Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder. Graphic Design Theory. Photoshop Tutorials. Typography Tutorials.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

It's a very well managed company with superbly talented employees with programming skills, and easily understood how to implement all our requirement, quickly and on our budget. MapQuest Founder on the Past, Present. I'm really fortunate that I'd found a wonderful development outsource partner in them.

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UT Austin MSTC Commencement Speech

Austin Startup

It also highlights the vision that Laura Kilcrease and George Kozmetsky had more than 20 years ago to create the first program like this of it’s kind. The only way to get free software was to apply for beta programs, which were not open to the public back then and usually required that you sign an Non-Disclosure Agreement.

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