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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

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. Work directly with engineers, no company involved. web development projects.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

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Prosperati HOME BLOG ABOUT CONTACT Blog Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2 Posted 07.15.2009 in Blog In my previous article ( Can a Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 1 ), I talked about alignment of interest and trust as being the two most critical aspect when starting a new offshore development team.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# Engineering/QA.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. Many buying companies price these deals on the basis of $1 million per engineer on the team for an early-stage deal. has now employed the same strategy.

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Can A Startup Do Offshore Development? Part 3

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Prosperati HOME BLOG ABOUT CONTACT Blog Can A Startup Do Offshore Development? Part 3 Posted 02.02.2010 in Blog A few months ago I wrote up my thoughts on offshore development within a technology startup context. I wrote about how you need to have an alignment of interest and trust in order for your offshore team to work.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

And by doing the development yourself, you’re competing with an offshore company that has specialists in all the skill areas I mentioned above. Should I offshore? When you consider the question of whether to offshore your development, if you keep things local you’ll save on your travel budget. And for design companies ?

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

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.