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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. Startups are often distributed entities, so adding and managing freelancers, contractors, and outsourcing firms is not a big step. The world is becoming a smaller place, and more homogeneous.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. Startups are often distributed entities, so adding and managing freelancers, contractors, and outsourcing firms is not a big step. The world is becoming a smaller place, and more homogeneous.

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How to Build an All-Star Remote Technology Team

The Startup Magazine

The second important decision is choosing between a co-located remote software development team and fully distributed development team. Co-located remote teams vs. distributed team. Many Western Europe and North American companies engage teams in Eastern Europe, Asia, and South America.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Europe is roughly the same as the US. Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). The number of channels grew with cable & satellite TV but we still have limitations that makes distributing content high. Not so fast.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Distribution costs have, too. The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network. They read less than 30 minutes.

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Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences – Distribution Channels

Steve Blank

This post is an update of what we learned about life science distribution channels. Life Science/Health Care distribution channels differ by Category. This weeks topic was distribution channels ; how your product gets from your company to your potential customer segments. Many Distributors in Europe and in Asia.

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Impressions from Pocket Gamer Connects in London

VC Cafe

First and foremost, PGC it’s a meeting palooza – I received over 40 requests for meetings, mainly from game studios all over Europe. What events sparked the major revolutions in business models and distribution? /1 One trend that was prominent at the conference was the rise of generative AI in gaming.