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. Creative or operational. Marty Zwilling.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

A few years ago outsourcing resources offshore was all the rage. We dabbled with it and found it more work for management and quality control than the actual potential cost saving. As a result the transition to remote was relatively painless but this meant managing every employee as if they are offshore.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2019

These are the costs that you will have to pay for right then and there as you start running your business. Salaries and wages, as well as utilities or operational expenses, form the bulk of costs that any business spends for. Another is by identifying which machinery costs too much in terms of depreciation and upkeep.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

It will be used to power Industrial IoT sensors to reduce wiring complexity and to high-power applications that will provide easy access to primary sources of energy such as remote and offshore renewable. Singapore would save more than 50 percent of cabling and installation cost for any sensor deployment.

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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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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. At this stage of the business we needed top talent, no low cost workers, so I ended the contract with the Indian team to focus on the local team.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Various countries are interested in drilling in the Arctic, offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and in other productive areas, and in new areas that have not yet been explored. One area experiencing significant growth in the number of operating oil wells is in Africa, whose oil wells are projected to increase by up to 9 percent over the next year.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

Ten years ago, each would have required dedicated hardware and operational maintenance. Inflation may seem like a neutral thing for a business – your costs may be going up, but your revenue should be going up as well, right? And yes, it’s a lot more fun to travel to Europe when a latte costs you $4, not $8.

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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. Bank customers never saw the switchboard operator, mail cart attendee, or other staff who performed repetitive, back-office tasks.

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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. The revenue is generated from owning and operating a wind farm and selling the produced electricity to customers. The only way to survive and thrive is to create your own market.

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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. Still, COVID-19 helped tip the balance towards a globally distributed model.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

The x-axis depicts technical complexity, risk, and cost which are all related. Use prototyping to lower technical risks and costs. Top Five Itineraries for the CIO's Offshore Visit. Top 10 Reasons to Visit Your Offshore Teams. Turning Good Ideas into Operational Reality. 4) Reality - Some things are "hard".

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BeyondVC

MAY 11, 2004

In our weekly partner’s meeting yesterday, we ended up in a discussion about the progression of offshore development in a variety of portfolio companies. In the end, the companies that were doing the best job with development were the ones that had their own operations offshore. 6 months later only 2 are left.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 3, 2022

How Operations Can Be Used As A Lever For Compound Growth written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Jhana has over 4 years of experience as a COO and Operations Consultant for digital entrepreneurs. Key Takeaway: Today, operations is an underutilized lever for growth. 21:25] How would you define an operator? [22:48]

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

APRIL 18, 2012

IGT is having a tough time raising the funds needed to start operations. Many believe that the USA simply can’t compete with offshore countries like China. The pitch meeting is Tuesday, April 24th, 8:30 to 11 at the Queen City Club. So what’s the problem? The problem breaks down into two things: 1.) So, why the reluctance?

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

This has prompted some to move their entire operations offshore to try and avoid the prying hands of local government agencies. “The correlation is as follows: It wasn’t a horrible business, they made bank, and it wasn’t near technically impossible. In fact, it was only getting /a lot/ easier and lest costly.

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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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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.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

Part 1 talked about what I saw and learned – the layout of a carrier, how the air crew operates and how the carrier functions in context of the other ships around it (the strike group.) For example, we can cruise offshore of potential adversaries (Iraq and Syria) who can’t get to our carriers.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2016

These tours are scheduled when the carriers are offshore training, not when they are deployed on missions. I learned quite a bit about the physical layout of a carrier, how the air crew operates and how the carrier functions in context of the other ships around it (the strike group.) And we have a lot of them on order.

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David Teten

JANUARY 14, 2019

The first five cost an employer zero or near zero dollars. . The operating assumption right now is that the majority of jobs cannot. I think it’s similar, but far easier, than managing people offshore. For more on why this is happening, see the Levo League on why self-promotion is hard for women.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. Balance your business between geographies.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I have ranked this list in ascending order of cost (defined as combined time and money). - Educating the VC/angel community on the city/state resources available to them to build companies. You can see preliminary results of this value creation study below. - Encouraging non-US companies to set up operations in the US.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JULY 12, 2012

It’s also not good that the most likely candidates for reshoring — high tech equipment intensive/low labour requirement operations — are very expensive to set up. Among the trends cited are things like intellectual property theft in China, supply chain and collaboration issues, and the rising cost of Chinese labor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. Balance your business between geographies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 13, 2024

That's been something people have been talking about for 10 years offshore, they used to call it, I don't think they call it that so much anymore, but the idea of there are actually places you can get remote workers for much less than say a US wage would be for various reasons. We can't compete on cost. And that's really the only way.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

For Dan Hughes, Director of Operations at startup brewery ColdFire Brewing, he and his brother have been hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. But they all take so much time.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the Bay Area’s cost structure compress the precious runway these newco’s have? Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud).

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 11, 2009

In effect, the unintended consequence will be to permanently keep these assets offshore and make U.S. companies pay more to intermediaries for the same service, because it will still cost them less than paying the higher tax burden imposed by the Congress. corporation’s continuing needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. Balance your business between geographies.

Global 136

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. Balance your business between geographies.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

While Dan heads up operations, his brother Stephen is head brewer, and their team also includes directors of finance and brand, respectively. The more complex the operating structure of a business , the more information and time required.”. Some folks cut corners by ordering equipment made offshore. Watch your finances.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. In exchange for equity, we discount the project cost, which is already low because we offshore most of our development, by 10-15%. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. incubators, e.g., the many options in New York.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. Balance your business between geographies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. Balance your business between geographies.

Global 258

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

This approach, popularly known as glocalization , means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. Balance your business between geographies.

Global 120

Global North America Intellectual Property Offshore 120