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Affordable and Efficient App Development

The Startup Magazine

But the availability of outsourcing, offshoring, and outstaffing has pulled many away from the use of local developers. Evaluate your potential developers’ knowledge, experience, and the skills listed on their software engineer resume. Cost-savings with the more affordable developer and IT project manager salary.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Practically this means that you’ll outsource (most likely off-shore) your design and development, you’ll rent your servers, you won’t have an office and you’ll have no salary. And by doing the development yourself, you’re competing with an offshore company that has specialists in all the skill areas I mentioned above.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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The Business Climate in China

Venture Chronicles

There is a base salary, which is the norm as opposed to piecemeal work which I think most Americans assume how China works, housing and meals, and lastly there is health insurance. The near term consequence of the worker shortage is that wage inflation is already a reality, as well as worker perks and benefits.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

If you’re a business major – go check out the Engineering Society’s monthly meeting. One’s a PM and the other’s an engineer. If so, shoot me an intro email at ryoma8ito@gmail.com A little about me: - Degree in computer engineering w/ management science option - Built several web 2.0 Simple as that.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. So, while your post is a good summary (of things that cant be learned quickly.