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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about bringing the work back home, since costs have gone up in less-developed countries, there are issues with intellectual property, and time zone and language differences make management difficult. Keep intellectual property keys in-house.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about bringing the work back home, since costs have gone up in less-developed countries, there are issues with intellectual property, and time zone and language differences make management difficult. Keep intellectual property keys in-house.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

Recently, Ive seen a lot of discussion about bringing the work back home, since costs have gone up in less-developed countries, there are issues with intellectual property, and time zone and language differences make management difficult. Keep intellectual property keys in-house. Marty Zwilling.

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6 Ways To Prevent Disastrous Outsourcing Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about bringing the work back home, since costs have gone up in less-developed countries, there are issues with intellectual property, and time zone and language differences make management difficult. Keep intellectual property keys in-house.

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To Outsource or Not to Outsource Software

Startup Professionals Musings

Intellectual property content. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property. Protect your intellectual property. Tags: startup software outsource offshore business. If the software is ancillary to your mission, proceed through the rest of these considerations.

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Outsourcing: The Pros And Cons

YoungUpstarts

As “offshore outsourcing” is a favourable choice, due to cheaper labour in developing countries. Losing a degree of management control also comes with losing absolute confidentiality of the proceedings of your company, as well as running the risk of losing sensitive data which is your intellectual property to a third-party.

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Update on America’s Slipping Global Competitiveness– Implications for Intellectual Property Development of Senate Bill 515

Pascal's View

patent system and broadly impact intellectual property rights in our country. offshore companies with lower labor costs, fixed currencies and weaker environmental standards). legislation that will transform the U.S. monopolists) and low cost producers (e.g.,