SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

In between, I got an email from CJ Cenizal asking about this exact issue: I'm growing a social gaming startup, Elevated Games ( elevatedgames.com ) as Founder and CEO. In Los Angeles Web Developer , I talked about the issues with finding developers in Los Angeles based the experience that one startup founder had.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

Don’t expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

I was a founder and former CEO of Mustang Engineering, and from 2005 through 2014, Mustang opened several international offices. which he and two partners started in 1987 to design and build offshore oil platforms. I know this from experience. He recently launched the Culture Code Champions podcast.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. Startup founders are driven to solve problems and make a difference – many want to literally change the world. Sometimes that will include pivoting the company, sometimes that will see the chair step in to act as CEO so the founder can fully recharge. Risk and reward.

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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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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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David Teten

OCTOBER 7, 2013

However, the best design experts can’t afford to be singularly focused, a point that Lead Designer and Co-Founder of Tackk, Dan Klammer, stresses in his approach. If you can’t find what you need within your network, however, the next option is to find outsourced developers in the US or offshore.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. Having trouble meeting folks you think would be good co-founders?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

by Andrew Ostashen, co-founder of Vulsec. Do we have offshore developers? Andrew Ostashen is co-founder of Vulsec , a Boston-based firm established to provide clients with the highest methodologies in data protection by delivering versatile tactics to safeguard information technology departments from hackers.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

A team in California is already creating a offshore seastead for non-US citizens who want to build companies in the US. I spoke with the Seasteading Institute , who are looking into this idea. - Launching a seastead accelerator offshore from New York. I’m unclear whether this legal arbitrage is possible.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 29, 2021

Talent mobility – should companies start looking for talent offshore? Lesser-skilled workers in western countries have been through this already, when jobs in factories, call centres and back offices were offshored. “Are superstar employees about to be offshored?”, What will it do to house prices?

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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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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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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The founder, Shelton Wilder (in the middle below), sought to raise $60,000 for 20% of the company to build inventory. It eventually came out that she had previously been a co-founder of a company that had made a very similar product and had sold $150,000 worth of slips over 18 months. This caught Kevin’s attention.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Optimizing profit above else led to wholesale offshoring of manufacturing and entire industries in order to lower costs. Government agencies lack the commercialization skills to help founders turn technical ideas into commercial ventures. Gilman Louie, the founder of In-Q-Tel , has started America’s Frontier Fund (AFF.)

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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. They’ve promised me founders stock in their company if I fish them out of the hole, which I’m well on my way to doing.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

It will be used to power Industrial IoT sensors to reduce wiring complexity and to high-power applications that will provide easy access to primary sources of energy such as remote and offshore renewable. Co-founder, CEO Aashish Mehta offered more insight into the company. TFi is revolutionizing the way we access power.

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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. View more jobs » Andrew Bolster Researching on the companies you Offshore Development work would definitely work you as it did for us. check them out at: www.amt.in

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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. They’ve promised me founders stock in their company if I fish them out of the hole, which I’m well on my way to doing.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. For consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers. This meant building every possible feature the founding team envisioned into a monolithic “release” of the product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

Previously, Rob was the founder and publisher of The New York Enterprise Report, a media company that served small and midsize businesses. 12:51] Sometimes when people talk about offshore or hiring people from other countries, there’s an idea of exploitation. And you can listen to it all on your lunch break.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

I believe this is an important post for both founders and investors in the Bay Area and outside the Bay Area to read carefully. I have lots more to share on this for founders, so hopefully, I can get through it during the summer. I think it will take a few years to understand these numbers and the impact. A blog entry for another day.

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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? One consideration that comes up often when outsourcing is whether to go with a local or offshore vendor. Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on. Start a blog.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy.

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Initial investment in a company is among the first non-founder capital raised. Of course CapEx has been transformed into OpEx via changes in the tech infrastructure layer (open source, virtualization & cloud computing, offshoring, etc.). That’s no secret.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In the mid-1190s, the founder of Bre-X was David Walsh. Offshore Scams. Penny stock scammers often use offshore scam for this reason. The scammers purchase cheap, unregistered offshore shares and then sell them to investors in the United States at an inflated price. Mining Scams.

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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. The offshore work should be completed parallel to that done onshore. (See also Are Crowdsourcing And Outsourcing No-Nos For Startups? ). Learning The Hard Way: My Outsourcing Experiences. Plus, with India being 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

He believes that one of the financial metrics taught at business schools and reinforced by Wall Street has accelerated offshoring of industries. But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed).

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 16, 2021

Not all of us are built to be founders but we can all find a way to back ambitious, world-changing businesses; whether it’s buying their products, using their services, promoting them, encouraging and supporting them or investing in them. In the same way it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole country to raise a startup.

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

Round-tripping is used by the founders of a startup to inflate the revenue and profit and mislead investors and lenders. To ‘’remedy the situation’’, the founders of ABC hire Mr’’X’’, an Indian national living in Bangalore ( at least on paper). .’’ Round-tripping.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2011

We have heard that there are significant tax advantages in doing business offshore. Manufacturing offshore could impact intellectual property. By Ernst Gemassmer Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Proctor and Gamble and others derive more than half of their revenues from international activities.

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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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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Should I offshore? Why bootstrap?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

And Larry Janesky is the founder, and can you imagine anything more boring in the world than a basement? (19:34): And the point was that all the staff jobs are being offshore, whether it's training, whether it's this, or whether it's that. 19:34): Right? But you can't have everything. John Jantsch (23:14): Yeah.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

However, in meeting some of the sports startups one of the things that struck me is that most of the founders who said they wanted to grow big hadn’t given much thought about how they would go about building size and scale. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore.

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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? Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. Most founders stay the least amount of time they can.

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