Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

At Buttercloth for example, we pivoted early during the pandemic, hiring out-of-work salon workers to help make fashionable Face Masks which we gave to customers. A few years ago outsourcing resources offshore was all the rage. Thanks to Danh Tran, Buttercloth ! #6- 6- Outsourcing is not that big a deal. Photo Credit: Tony Tullio.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

This discussion began last week and has fostered some great comments and resources… Offshore resources/Europe company for U.S. I’ve used some local and some offshore resources and avoided larger outsourcing companies. They start by demoing their skills on my project at no cost for 1-2 days. web development projects.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

On the other hand, if it is maintenance and testing on non-core software, use the lowest cost solution. Cost factors. Companies in Asia and Eastern Europe can still provide direct cost reductions of up to 75%. The net may be less cost reduction than you thought. Outsourcing is a tool, not the problem or the solution.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 31, 2006

The buzz around offshoring has certainly died down over the last year. For a period of time, you could not pick up a magazine or read a newspaper without a lead article on the dangers of offshoring. Other software jobs are body-for-hire which, once again, is not that interesting and does not provide real upside for the developer.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. Cost The most talented technical candidates do demand higher hourly rates, but as indicated already, their expertise reduces risk and the number of required project hours.

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deal architect

JANUARY 3, 2015

Vishal Sikka, the new CEO of Infosys, has some candid commentary on the state of the IT services market "It''s like a treadmill of increasingly lower cost, hiring people faster and faster, from more and more mediocre places, training people. Offshoring (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant) Outsourcing (IBM, Accenture, EDS)'

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2019

Rather than hiring more employees as a part of a company’s team, more and more businesses have resorted to outsourcing. These are the costs that you will have to pay for right then and there as you start running your business. Another is by identifying which machinery costs too much in terms of depreciation and upkeep.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2020

And, as the economy takes a hit, some businesses may even need to downsize, leaving the remaining workers to take on duties they are unprepared for and weren’t hired to carry out. which he and two partners started in 1987 to design and build offshore oil platforms. Higgs is also retired CEO of Mustang Engineering Inc.,

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2014

In 2013 there were 2,637,239 jobs outsourced offshore from the US alone, according to Sourcing Line Computer Economics. Outsourcing is not just a cost reduction tactic; it can also enable your business to access specialized services. Offshore – Communication and Time-zone Differences.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 21, 2013

Outsourcing – or relocating – the work can be a great to overcome those obstacles while controlling costs, increasing efficiency and even making workers happier. As a one-man founder bootstrapping the business, this allowed me to hire a team for much less money. The offshore work should be completed parallel to that done onshore.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Many business leaders view their corporate culture as so important that they make it a point to hire people who are a good fit for that culture – and jettison any employees who aren’t. When you start straying from the practices that got you where you are, you run the risk of making decisions that will cost you in the long run.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 2, 2020

Whether you’re preparing your checklist for building an offshore company or getting a better understanding of the labor industry, the ever-changing business landscape has made it necessary for businesses to distribute work better. Outsourcing can be broken down into three types: offshoring, nearshoring, and onshoring.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 23, 2019

Personal assistants are the people you should hire first. Here’s a few of them: Low Cost Startup. You would need to rationalize your rates since offshore VAs are cheaper. When you do it right, being a virtual assistant can be an excellent career move. Virtual assistant businesses offer an array of side hustle benefits.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In some strange way, a big part of his competitive advantage is that he is able to outsource everything and maintain such a low cost structure. where you can leverage some internal “low cost&# time. World class In-house UX is one of the most challenging hires you’ll make. So it can be done. 99designs are simplistic.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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. A globally distributed business model allows you to hire the best talent wherever in the world it is.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Large wind farms can have wind turbines spreading over a vast area with the land in between used for other purposes and it can also be located offshore. One way to offset your initial costs especially during the building phase is to rent equipment and services rather than buying it all.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. It seems many startups these days are under a lot of pressure to outsource their development organization to save costs. So we had to completely throw that code away, including all of its beatiful tests and specs. Talk about waste.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2016

You can’t eat through a web browser or move your kitchens offshore to a lower cost country! Restaurants hone a craft you cannot offshore and provide an experience you cannot digitize. Whether your goal is to build a career or a business, the restaurant industry is relatively untapped. Unlike digital fads, food is survival.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications? If you’ve got tips for other business owners or want to share your experiences with hiring developers, please leave us a note in the comments section.

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They are smart, talented, easy to find and hire and they work for very reasonable pay. The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. Managing offshore developers remotely The whole point in offshoring is to save money, right?

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 10, 2003

When offshoring it is important to think about what can and cannot be offshored, whether management can handle it, and whether or not you open your own office with your own infrastructure or outsource completely. Most of us end up using offshore development to work on non-core technology. 2k in-house vs. $3-3.5k

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. Getting Hired. Big Companies. Captain Recruiter. cover letters.

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David Teten

JANUARY 14, 2019

The first five cost an employer zero or near zero dollars. . When internal job opportunities are publicized, the hiring manager should specify if a job can be executed with flexible/reduced hours. I think it’s similar, but far easier, than managing people offshore. I listed these in suggested order of execution.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

This drop in public valuations basically means that private companies lost half of their value in a comparable way and therefore the cost of capital doubled in the past month, pushing much higher the hurdle for any additional investment, be it in sales, marketing or R&D. McKinsey highlight #1: the art of cost cutting or.

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Austin Startup

JULY 21, 2010

What if you hired a security guard to monitor, let’s say, a dozen video feeds for suspicious activity? You could even offshore that task, to attempt to reduce the cost. If it was obvious, you could certainly go back and review the video to see if it provided any clues.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 13, 2024

I need to hire people. When you're looking to hire and source talent for the business, it gives you a much more affordable resource to find that talent. I think as people, we have a lot of expectations of, oh, I'm going to go hire this person. But then my customer was, Hey, great, but what I don't have systems.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. A team in California is already creating a offshore seastead for non-US citizens who want to build companies in the US.

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 6, 2004

Many startups I meet with today are either taking advantage of offshore development or have pushed up plans to expand sales internationally. Given the broader scope of this trend, I have changed the category name Offshore Resources to represent a broader theme, Globalization. We are truly living in a global world these days.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 29, 2021

Talent mobility – should companies start looking for talent offshore? Employee Compensation – should employees get paid based on their level of expenses/cost of living? Can someone who moved out of the market they were hired for, continue to earn the same compensation if they moved abroad? ”, FT Magazine.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The reality however is that entrepreneurs should only play the equity game with newer, very focused firms that specialize in this practice and not traditional work for hire or a blend. Help identify key technologist and product hires to transition in-house (week 13 onward, however this can take 1 year).

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Altgate

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I was in a meeting a couple weeks ago with some senior guys from a large (read billion dollar) offshoring/BPO company where they were pitching me for some business. If Jed’s numbers are right, 37signals is a cash machine (with only 12 employees and annual costs of $2 million before taxes and $6 million of EBITDA).

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Some folks cut corners by ordering equipment made offshore. Cash must be available to cover costs and offset delays. A startup brewery’s biggest costs tend to be the brewing system (e.g., Costs vary by scope, location, and market. Make sure your financial reserves can handle delays and extra costs. he explains.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Most small businesses and startups that are looking to grow— hire a new employee , or buy a new piece of equipment, or open a new location —need to think hard about cash flow, or making sure they have enough money in the bank to meet payroll and other financial obligations. Some folks cut corners by ordering equipment made offshore.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 3, 2022

10:12] How does a business balance outsourcing talent and hiring freelancers while maintaining and building their team culture? [12:59] I would say it comes down to two things first off, it's the decision making of the company and who they choose to hire and how they choose to hire them. Then you get high performance culture.

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

As millions of people worldwide already lost their jobs amid COVID-19 outbreak, local labor agencies across the globe are looking much closer at overseas remote work arrangements asking companies ‘’ Why don’t you hire locally? An asset, no cost in the P&L. USD 30 000 rent (cost). No revenue at all.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

We could get into a discussion about how much developers make, and how many costs you will take on by quitting your day job, but it’s completely irrelevant. I’m amazed at how many business costs I pay throughout the course of a year. Costs range from $300-$1000 per year. Phone - $20/month for a land line. $50-100/month

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