Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Outsourcing for services needs to be carefully managed. Protect your intellectual property.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 31, 2006

The buzz around offshoring has certainly died down over the last year. For a period of time, you could not pick up a magazine or read a newspaper without a lead article on the dangers of offshoring. I had dinner tonight with a portfolio company CEO who has managed to shift most of his resources to India.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 21, 2013

In building my company – Dropmysite / Dropmyemail – I found that managing outsourcing was an ever-evolving combination of local and remote capabilities that stays flexible enough to meet changing conditions. When we launched two years ago, for example, the whole development team was based in India. Plus, with India being 2.5

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are the buzz word in business for good reason. The average computer programmer earns around $1000 a month in India. The $1000 a month versus the average in India of $85 gives new information workers in India and very high standard of living. Not really. There is no choice.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2014

by Matt Everard, managing director of Barrington Freight. The growth of developing nation’s economies – India is a fine example – has led to a surge in the amount of outsourcing contracts from developed nations. Offshore – Communication and Time-zone Differences.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

We all have access to more tools to self-manage productivity than we used to. For a startup, sure, you can buy an offshore development team in India for less money than a development team in Silicon Valley, and for a more established company it makes it much cheaper to try and expand to Europe and Asia.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Government restrictions and fears of infection pushed companies that had previously held out to accept remote working, and many discovered that it’s more manageable than they had expected. 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.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

I’ll discuss what skills you’ll need, how to write your requirements, how to source developers and designers, how much to budget, how to agree a development contract, how to manage your vendors, how to plan your release, all the documentation youll need, and much more. Should I offshore? What is bootstrapping?

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BeyondVC

MAY 11, 2004

In our weekly partner’s meeting yesterday, we ended up in a discussion about the progression of offshore development in a variety of portfolio companies. In the end, the companies that were doing the best job with development were the ones that had their own operations offshore. 6 months later only 2 are left.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

This particular attitude is further fostered by the fact that its relative independence from the main company branch as well as the lack of direct managerial intervention from the main company results in the implementation of unilateral decision making for that specific offshore location.

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David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

It would make life a lot easier for emerging managers if they could outsource the entire fundraising process. Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. There are eight main reasons why so many small emerging managers do not work with placement agents: Economics. .

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 10, 2003

A number of my portfolio companies outsource development to India and other locales. When offshoring it is important to think about what can and cannot be offshored, whether management can handle it, and whether or not you open your own office with your own infrastructure or outsource completely.

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. As a development manager I have, over the years, utilized development teams in India, China and Russia. Managing people is hard, managing developers is harder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. with demands for new products and services.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

From an investment point of view, managing and deploying capital in the same physical area makes sense, where investors can work with young companies and help them with a variety of things. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance. On the ground, I am seeing more hybrid solutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. with demands for new products and services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. with demands for new products and services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. with demands for new products and services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. with demands for new products and services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. with demands for new products and services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2010

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. link] SEO India Wonderful!! So, the guy is BS-ting you, people.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Olivier Mougenot, Investment Director, NUMA Paris , points out if you start with an offshore tech team, it’s easier and cheaper to expand it than start a new office from scratch. In addition, HOF has backed 6 companies with roots in Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, India, and Russia. (In Founders’ determination.

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

Hence, customer support representatives, account managers and all other remote workers who are required to work on a predefined schedule are likely to be classified as ‘’employees’’ Attending regular team calls, participating in training programs, etc. Overseas remote jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. He gossips with the office manager who tells 3 software developers. What about offshoring? First, many people confuse outsourcing and offshoring. And it doesn’t stop there.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

I truly am a fervent believer in globalization and how offshoring some development work can make a ton of sense from a cost and time advantage (24×7). In addition, the companies that actually took advantage of offshore development and were successful were the ones that opened their own wholly-owned Indian subsidiaries.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

For consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity is encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. Maybe this is because I run offshore software development company and have seen a LOT of people coming asking for help after dealing with freelancers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And for consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity are encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. China has simply become the factory.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

I started the digital marketing business I have now (in its current form) because I’ve always worked in marketing and prefer to manage my own destiny and be autonomous. In my case, it was really an undying passion for books combined with an underserved literary market in India that made me make the decision. #8- To keep on-trend.

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