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

Scalable Startup

People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. While working on a release, we made sure we are building their skills in all possible roles (Dev, QA, Product Owner, Technical writers etc.). Our strategy was to move to a distributed model where the entire scrum team works together offshore.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

is what we call the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Dont wait 4 weeks or more while programmers are "building features" If they cant deploy new features into production at least twice a week, dont use them. There is some benefit to having the programmers know where you want to take your minimum viable product in the future.