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The Importance of Software Development Services

YoungUpstarts

For one thing, this type of service offers the most practical alternative for those companies settled in countries with a high labor cost. Companies with an ever-growing labor force usually have a hard time compensating for the high costs, tax-wise.

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Can Ireland Offer Startups Something Silicon Valley Can’t?

ReadWriteStart

Russia, Belarus, England, Greece and South Africa. For all his country’s advantages – lower taxes and costs than Silicon Valley – O’Sullivan says he realizes that entrepreneurs with a good shot in the U.S. “Of course, a good startup can get funding anywhere. But we think we have extra things to offer.”.

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The increased cost of offshore development in India

BeyondVC

While a couple of our companies chose to use consulting partners to begin with due to lower upfront costs and better time to market, we found that over time (the last 2 years) that employee churn is becoming a huge problem in these consulting companies and making us less productive in the long run. What does that mean for us in the future?

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How to help your startup turn a profit in 4 simple steps

The Next Web

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC is how much money you can spend to get someone to become a customer. LTV ­ CAC = ROI. Good salespeople are expensive.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. Scale: things that seem easy when you have 100 connected users, are far more difficult when you have tens of millions concurrently connected users – especially if you want to be cost-effective. Maybe someday. Eventually.

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