Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Tags: startup software outsource offshore business. In all outsourcing cases, a detailed specification is required. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

by Andrew Ostashen, co-founder of Vulsec. Do we have offshore developers? Hire qualified internal resources or outsource as needed for the required IT positions. When an organization is within the startup phase, the first thing on their mind is “How do we get our product to market as fast as possible?” Do we have store fronts?

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. This can often lead to introductions to suitable people, or into networks where you can find a technical co-founder.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 21, 2013

As a one-man founder bootstrapping the business, this allowed me to hire a team for much less money. He hired a few ace developers for the Argentinean team and everything seemed like smooth sailing. The offshore work should be completed parallel to that done onshore. Learning The Hard Way: My Outsourcing Experiences.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? World class In-house UX is one of the most challenging hires you’ll make. One consideration that comes up often when outsourcing is whether to go with a local or offshore vendor. He basically outsources everything. Branding/Copy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

He's a co-founder and chairman of Work Better Now, which provides talent from Latin America for US based businesses. Rob (01:06): Yeah, I hired my first assistant in 2013. There's plenty of work for them to do, and you even think about hiring another one. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Rob Levin.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

What’s more, outsourcing projects and ongoing operations to offshore teams on a contract basis is a more flexible model that’s easy to scale. A globally distributed business model allows you to hire the best talent wherever in the world it is. Transitioning to and managing a globally distributed model isn’t plain sailing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

I’m supposed to believe that my best innovation can only come from scores of startup founders who just made millions and have now become CVOs at my company? The Aqui-hire Business. Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. Chief Vesting Officers)?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. I dont see any reason why having the team offshore is any more of a liability in this area than, say, having to do this work while selling through a channel (and hence, not having direct access to customers). Talk about waste.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Jack Weil, Founder of Rockmount. In 1946, he formed Rockmount, a western high fashion clothing retailer that continues to manufacturer it’s shirts in the US after many competitors moved offshore. To help with the growing work load at the lab, she has subsequently hired her son and daughter to work with her. Not bad at all.

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David Teten

JANUARY 14, 2019

Many early-stage companies do not have these issues top of mind, because so many founders are pre-children. When internal job opportunities are publicized, the hiring manager should specify if a job can be executed with flexible/reduced hours. I think it’s similar, but far easier, than managing people offshore.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

What are the terms of their relationship with the founder? I’ve also asked this question on Quora.There, I ask for advice on how to best structure this for all parties: The development shop, the founders (outside of the dev shop), and potential outside investors. What are the timelines? The discounts? The cliffs? The fine print?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Interestingly, we’ve won a number of deals by being the not–offshore alternative. Most people I know have had extremely bad experiences with offshore development. I’m working with a friend who’s got a Silicon Valley startup which made the mistake of hiring a Romanian development team.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Interestingly, we’ve won a number of deals by being the not-offshore alternative. Most people I know have had extremely bad experiences with offshore development. I’m working with a friend who’s got a Silicon Valley startup which made the mistake of hiring a Romanian development team.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

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.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 29, 2021

Talent mobility – should companies start looking for talent offshore? Can someone who moved out of the market they were hired for, continue to earn the same compensation if they moved abroad? Can someone who moved out of the market they were hired for, continue to earn the same compensation if they moved abroad?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2011

We have heard that there are significant tax advantages in doing business offshore. Hiring local staff requires establishment of a legal entity, which can be both expensive and time consuming. The hiring/firing process is lengthy, expensive and complex. Termination of a wrongly hired person can be a very expensive process.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I was in a meeting a couple weeks ago with some senior guys from a large (read billion dollar) offshoring/BPO company where they were pitching me for some business. I haven’t met founder Jason Fried but reading interviews and stories about him, he’s clearly the real deal.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research, says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. Some folks cut corners by ordering equipment made offshore. Used systems are almost as expensive, so you’re really not saving anything, but you might get it sooner than ordering new.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 17, 2011

In my own case, of the 7 deals I’ve sourced and/or led at First Round , the profiles of the founders look like this: Married, non-technical female, mid-30s, mom, white. Single, non-developer (knows how the tech works, though) male w/outsourced offshore tech team, 30’s, dad, white. Non-technical, mid 30’s dad, white.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

We have heard that there are tax advantages in doing business offshore. Hiring local staff requires establishment of a legal entity, which can be both expensive and time consuming. The hiring/firing process is lengthy, expensive and complex. Termination of a wrongly hired person can be a very expensive process.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Most small businesses and startups that are looking to grow— hire a new employee , or buy a new piece of equipment, or open a new location —need to think hard about cash flow, or making sure they have enough money in the bank to meet payroll and other financial obligations. Some folks cut corners by ordering equipment made offshore.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

As millions of people worldwide already lost their jobs amid COVID-19 outbreak, local labor agencies across the globe are looking much closer at overseas remote work arrangements asking companies ‘’ Why don’t you hire locally? Yet another bad practice involving startups and overseas remote workers in favor of the founders.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

It should address not only the creation of new jobs, but also the continued hemorrhaging of jobs and entire strategic industries offshore. They hire local employees or family. They hire the best and the brightest. They are anyone who runs his/her own business. Most are barely profitable.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. at 6:16 am Other costs I immediately thought of: if you have someone doing payroll for you, if you use quickbooks, and if you need to hire a bookkeeper. You can only hire other people to do so much. It adds up.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

Also, founders who pitch me when they themselves live in separate locations don’t get very far with me. This is a topic that comes up often in Los Angeles because many CEOs are tempted to hire their tech teams in the Bay Area. I prefer the first sales hires to be in the home office. What about offshoring?

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Most offshore jurisdictions have had to shift their businesses away from helping. HW: You were co-founder and longtime co-host of Planet Money, one of the most successful podcasts out there. But the U.S. I don’t want to jump up and down and say: problem solved! But I don’t send them. And that is great.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. For consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Judah Phillips, the co-founder and CTO of Vizadata and founder of SmartCurrent , explained: We already live in a world of “real-time” predictive analytics. That’s true whether you plan to license software or hire an outside organization. Increasingly powerful systems cracked open the door for real-time predictive analytics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

Founders start companies. In the old days this may have made sense since founders took huge economic risks and often refinanced houses or built companies with almost no money. In the old days this may have made sense since founders took huge economic risks and often refinanced houses or built companies with almost no money.

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