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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah. We were it in Europe: B2B. We headlined at the Red Herring Europe conference (they were the equivalent of TechCrunch today).

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

There are plenty of companies poised to serve your needs in Bangalore, the Philippines, and across Eastern Europe. For some time now, it has been possible to outsource engineering labor to other countries. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services.