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

Scalable Startup

work is mostly drupal, wordpress, seo and php/lamp. People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. In the past I’ve acquired an offshore company in China after working together for about a year, that worked well, gave us the chance to get to know each other and protected our IP.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. You can develop web.apps in assembly language if you insist, but it’ll take 10 times more time and money than doing it with.net, php, ror or other modern languages and you’ll have 10 times more bugs to deal with.

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