deal architect

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Over the last month, as we get ready to welcome the 20s, I have been reviewing blog posts and books I have written and the notes from advisory work helping clients pick vendors, negotiate contracts, review vendor performance from the.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 29, 2012

This is the first week that I’ll be splitting coverage of Shark Tank episodes between this blog and Entrepreneur.com. The SBU retails for $1,800 and costs $250 to make in an offshore factory. You never get just one offer to invest in your company. You either get zero, or many.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 1, 2023

And while sometimes, sure, it may make sense to open up a massive support location offshore, that may be just a less expensive way of avoiding a process redesign or system implementation. You can find this post on the Bolster Blog here ) The post Signs your Chief Customer Officer isn’t scaling appeared first on The Startup CEO blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

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. Thank you very much for the video.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Prosperati HOME BLOG ABOUT CONTACT Blog Can A Startup Do Offshore Development? Part 3 Posted 02.02.2010 in Blog A few months ago I wrote up my thoughts on offshore development within a technology startup context. Offshore startup development, when done right, can be extremely beneficial. WHERE ARE YOU?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

12:51] Sometimes when people talk about offshore or hiring people from other countries, there’s an idea of exploitation. 11:41): Are you sick and tired of wasting your precious time on tedious tasks, like pulling reports, rewriting blog posts, and trying to personalize countless prospecting emails?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Why This SEO Veteran Is Joining the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Years of hard-sell cold-calling and deceptive marketing practices by thousands of domestic and offshore service providers promising SEO gold have tarnished our industry.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Mark Logic CEO Blog. Blog Archive. Top Five Itineraries for the CIO's Offshore Visit. Top 10 Reasons to Visit Your Offshore Teams. This Web blog are my personal opinions and creations, and not those of my current or former employers. social media. (3). software development. (47). software qa. (8). Recent Posts.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2018

While about 65 percent of them would be willing to move abroad for their business, they don’t dismiss the idea of outsourcing their offshore office or hiring remote workers either. Nate is also the editor-in-chief at a business oriented blog Bizzmarkblog.com. In the words of the immortal Bob Dylan: “The times they are a-changin’.”.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The trap most of them fell into (common almost everywhere): they were reading the blog posts and advice of Silicon Valley-based companies and believing that it uniformly applied to them. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. It doesn’t. Born Global or Die Local.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

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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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2019

For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. The reason is that every new year brings about a “newness” for lack of a better term when we are able to start fresh and change those things that we did bad or things we have been thinking about doing. There will be goals met and goals crushed and that’s why we love the new year and we know you do too!

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nickpoint.co.uk

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We found Keegan through 99Designs and used him for our logo , business cards , Launch page and a new blog for Bootstrapping. So we’ve used an offshore company to do much of the bulky development work. Blog at WordPress.com. Choosing right person? Keegan is one of the best freelancers we’ve worked with.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. If you feel like looking for offshore developer talent, you can try Softensity. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools. How do you know who will be willing and able to work on your project? PM OK, agree.

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. Here are some lethal mistakes to avoid: Downplaying the culture gap Communicating with your offshore developers may seem easy; in all likelihood they speak decent English. My advice: don’t!

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BeyondVC

MARCH 19, 2004

It was quite a treat as I got to hear his viewpoint on Spain, terrorism, immigration, and offshoring amongst other things. Since I tend not to write about politics, I thought I would share Pat’s thoughts on offshoring. ” Throw up a blog, some links, and some Google Adsense and see where it takes you. .”

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Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

  I've seen: A business fall into the hands of a minority investor who controlled the offshore manufacturing.    I've seen: A business fall into the hands of a minority investor who controlled the offshore manufacturing.  Subscribe to this blogs feed.   Does this happen?  Books I Like.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Rather than reply to people who ask me via emails, I figure I plug any advice that I have gathered together into a blog post. Engage in the community by asking and answering questions, and become known by filling in your profile information with a link to your own blog or website that outlines who you are and what you are working on.

Cofounder 40

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

The topic was on virtual offices and digital offshoring. Although the story and offshoring in general has it’s detractors (unions love the status quo, unless it involves profit increases they want a share in). My business rentoid got a nice little plug which is a bonus on a non-commercial channel. web businesses.

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deal architect

AUGUST 19, 2017

In a blog post he says “It is clear to me that despite our successes over the last three years, and the powerful seeds of innovation that we have sown, I cannot. Vishal Sikka has resigned as CEO of Infosys.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Move R&D offshore Operations Follow your customer growth, don’t grow data center and support capacity ahead That said, I would like to close this post will a couple of more cheerful comments. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Blog Archive. Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs.

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Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Altgate

DECEMBER 31, 2008

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← How To Blog Like A Pro The World Without Altgate → Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million Posted on December 31, 2008 by fnazeeri Not really. At least not yet. But that’s my prediction for 2009. … [.]

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

even after our work was featured in all the tech blogs and received seed funding. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. If you read further back in the blog, you'll see that 2009 wasn't a very good year for me (and a lot of other people, too). Blog Archive. Spontaneous Blogging.

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deal architect

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Congratulations to my friends at Appirio which I have profiled in many of my blog posts and books as a cloud pioneer. Wipro is acquiring Appirio. But the move needs to come with a warning. The Appirio deal is the.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

From the project: Recently, an explosion on an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico caused both loss of life and a sizable and ongoing oil spill. InnoCentive started a project to help find solutions to the BP oil spill.

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Offshore Mexico Global Engineer 109

deal architect

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I make a living blogging about innovation, writing books about it, presenting on it. You guys are killing me. Innovation should make people go “wow” – your presentation at OOW made the lady next to me go to sleep.

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Offshore 258

Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

It’s the one thing that can’t be outsourced, offshored or automated. . - Competition – does your brand play games? - Context – think time, tone and place. The final ingredient of the future is passion.

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Moldova Internet Australia Libya 91

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I wrote a blog post on this. I’m already doing this on an experimental basis on my blog. - Publishing research. A team in California is already creating a offshore seastead for non-US citizens who want to build companies in the US. See ffvc.com/topics for a full list of topics we want to research.

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Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

Similarly, Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund highlights in her blog how she personally completed 345 meetings in a nine-month period for the firm’s first $11.5 That’s less than a 2% yield of all contacts and 6 percent of first meetings. In the the end, they reached their hard stop of $130m. million venture fund.

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Private Equity Technical Review Management LP 60

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JULY 12, 2012

The story of manufacturing in the United States over the last couple of decades is one marked by job loss due to globalization and offshoring production to low-cost labor countries. If you’d like to read the full article, you can visit the Software Advice blog here. Companies Continue to “Reshore” Production?

North America 95

North America Intellectual Property Software Review Offshore 95

Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

but became much less so in the last decade when the bottom-line drove industries offshore. This series of blog posts is my attempt to understand how science and technology policy in the U.S. universities (See the blog posts on the Secret History of Silicon Valley here , and for a story about one of the University weapons labs here.).

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Silicon Valley Government Germany Japan 243

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

I have been reading Fred’s blog AVC for about a decade now. I sort of feel mentored by Fred via his blog, which is pretty remarkable for just writing words on the web and sharing them. Of course, over the last decade, the rest of the world doesn’t need to read these blogs to see what’s going on. A blog entry for another day.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

” But I pointed out a professor at HBS ( Tom Eisenmann ) who teaches a course where blogs are a part of the classroom reading material. He believes that one of the financial metrics taught at business schools and reinforced by Wall Street has accelerated offshoring of industries. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed).

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Prosperati HOME BLOG ABOUT CONTACT Blog Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 1 Posted 06.30.2009 in Blog One of the first things I did at Zoecity was to build a new engineering team based in Malaysia. I’ll break it down to multiple blog posts so as not to make this article too long. WHERE ARE YOU?

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Offshore Malaysia Developer Seattle 40

Professor VC

JULY 2, 2010

Never one to propose popular or easy plans, Andy suggests rebuilding our industrial infrastructure and employment through financial incentives and taxing products of offshore labor and using the proceeds to incent companies to scale their American operations. Blog Archive. My Blog List. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Venture Capital Angel Investor 28

Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

IPO market and simply dismiss the American equity markets for emerging growth companies today as “no longer engineered for brokers & bankers to make money via flipping over-valued startups to retail investors via institutional cronies” (from Paul Kedrosky’s blog). I strongly disagree with this point of view.

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Delaware IPO Venture Capital Private Equity 37

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 11, 2011

Outsourcing to far cheaper, offshore alternatives is a readily available, easily accessible option. As most of you reading this blog are entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs, remember the times when you have had to be exceptionally resourceful and flexible in order to make things work in your own business.

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Offshore Networking Global Management 77