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

Scalable Startup

I’ve found the best way to do this is to manage the projects daily. I’ve been acting as project manager/dev manager. People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. Our strategy was to move to a distributed model where the entire scrum team works together offshore.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts. And the chief entrepreneur has a staff of chief portfolio manager, chief venture capitalist, and chief risk officer, right? So that gives us two different management structures for these two different portfolios.”

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery. Scanning / Document Management. Project Management tools. Part 4- Closing.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

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. This may well be the first project you have managed but most programmers have worked on dozens and they have invaluable experience designing features and interfaces.