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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

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The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). PR/Marketing. For startups, PR firms are a waste of money. We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Indeed, for all the outrage and fury, this is actually common knowledge amongst startups, and I was going to support that with a bit more data to win over the skeptics (at least, those who were open to listening). And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Now I see that is a whole community that is developing their big ideas such as me. Very useful.