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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. For consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. View more jobs » Andrew Bolster Researching on the companies you Offshore Development work would definitely work you as it did for us. check them out at: www.amt.in

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. And for consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers. My students think of computing power as a utility like I think of electricity.

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Seed Stage Firms are Dead, Long Live Micro VCs

Genuine VC

Of course CapEx has been transformed into OpEx via changes in the tech infrastructure layer (open source, virtualization & cloud computing, offshoring, etc.). In the sector of internet-enabled services where a majority of the Micro VC investment has transpired, startups can fundamentally do more with less.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. I dont see any reason why having the team offshore is any more of a liability in this area than, say, having to do this work while selling through a channel (and hence, not having direct access to customers). Talk about waste.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

One consideration that comes up often when outsourcing is whether to go with a local or offshore vendor. I’ve done both and in my experience picking the right offshore solution can be an advantage (freeing up time and money to deploy elsewhere).

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Fighting an Asymmetrical Cyber War– Why We Need to Take A Different Approach

Pascal's View

” Turning to solutions, the authors make a compelling case for an open-source approach to creating an immunization system for U.S. ” They make the very important point that “it makes sense now– just as it made sense during the Clinton years– to purchase components, even those made offshore. .”