YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Within the next few years, Mustang added offices in Melbourne and Perth, Australia; Mumbai, India; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bogota, Colombia; Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia; and Norway. which he and two partners started in 1987 to design and build offshore oil platforms. That’s a lot of different cultures around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. Don’t expect a contract company, either offshore, onshore, or near-shore, to implement a vision that is still in your head. Focus on operational processes, rather than innovative new ones.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

This discussion began last week and has fostered some great comments and resources… Offshore resources/Europe company for U.S. I’ve used some local and some offshore resources and avoided larger outsourcing companies. People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour.

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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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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. development manager.

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deal architect

MAY 8, 2013

Narayana Murthy is a revered figure in India. Offshoring (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant)' So, not surprising he is hearing murmurs to return, Steve Jobs style, to Infosys, the firm he co-founded. Reading this interview with him though it struck me how little of a.

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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. Tags: startup software outsource offshore business. Marty Zwilling.

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deal architect

AUGUST 6, 2013

This article about IBM''s large contract with customer Bharti Airtel in India provides a nice microcosm of the churn happening around legacy software and outsourcing contracts. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP) Offshoring (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant) Outsourcing (IBM, Accenture, EDS)'

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Andrew Payne

MARCH 27, 2014

It’s certainly possible that Kickstarter is the strategy fad of the decade, much like India offshore development was 10+ years ago. The process forces a lot of good MVP hygiene: entrepreneurs have to describe the value clearly, converge the features & design, and understand pricing & margins.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 21, 2013

When we launched two years ago, for example, the whole development team was based in India. Plus, with India being 2.5 The offshore work should be completed parallel to that done onshore. Learning The Hard Way: My Outsourcing Experiences. hours behind my Singapore headquarters, my productive workday was effectively extended.

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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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David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

Prabhat Gusain , formerly a manager at Invest India and now an intern with Versatile Venture Capital , observes, “While many large endowments and foundations have adopted the “Yale Model” (in-house staff of 30 professionals to manage a $30 billion endowment), it is uneconomical for those with less than $2 billion.

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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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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. The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2014

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. In 2013 there were 2,637,239 jobs outsourced offshore from the US alone, according to Sourcing Line Computer Economics. Offshore – Communication and Time-zone Differences.

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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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deal architect

AUGUST 9, 2019

I drove by the Renaissance hotel in Powai on the outskirts of Mumbai in India last month. It brought back memories - I had taken a client there 15 years ago on a due diligence trip as they looked to.

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deal architect

JULY 18, 2019

I was in India last week and visited with a couple of outsourcing firms. In my travels, I got reminders of several due diligence visits I had helped clients with from 2003 to 2010. The Renaissance in Powai reminded me.

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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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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

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. And yes, it’s a lot more fun to travel to Europe when a latte costs you $4, not $8.

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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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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. Outside the U.S. Obviously this depends on industry and application.) Further refinement of Product/Market fit could be done locally by using Value Proposition Design.

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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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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. Managers realized that there’s little difference between employees working from home on the other side of town and employees working on the other side of the world. Create a cohesive team.

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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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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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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

And by doing the development yourself, you’re competing with an offshore company that has specialists in all the skill areas I mentioned above. Should I offshore? When you consider the question of whether to offshore your development, if you keep things local you’ll save on your travel budget. And for design companies ?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

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. It was a job I had once loved – working around the world as an Offshore Co-ordinator for a subsea construction company in the oil industry. However, as the company evolved so had my job.

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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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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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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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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

‘’Happy Life’’ is of course incorporated in an offshore zone making it hard to trace. After two weeks of COVID-19 lockdown, people in India were able to see the Himalayas for the first time in 30 years and most big cities in Europe reported improved air quality.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. In addition, HOF has backed 10 companies with roots in Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, India, Germany, Denmark and Russia. Bi-national companies , which from inception have an international presence. Companies founded by immigrants.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. In addition, HOF has backed 10 companies with roots in Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, India, Germany, Denmark and Russia. Bi-national companies , which from inception have an international presence. Companies founded by immigrants.

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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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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

Interestingly, Satis, a blockchain advisory firm, published a report this past week (link below) that predicts offshore markets for cryptocurrency will be main drivers of crypto market growth, citing a loss of confidence in government monetary policy around the world.

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