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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). PR/Marketing. For startups, PR firms are a waste of money.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

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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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? There was something very right about Zed Shaw’s rant regarding open source licenses. So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Maybe this is because I run offshore software development company and have seen a LOT of people coming asking for help after dealing with freelancers. For example, if you want a freelance site like elance.com, there are open source projects that mimic 99% of the functionality of that site. Very important!