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Pros and Cons of the Offshore Company for Software Development

The Startup Magazine

The most significant advantages of offshore development, such as lower costs, access to a larger pool of qualified development companies, resource management, flexibility, etc., The following are the key advantages of exporting software design to an offshore software company. Lower cost of development. will be discussed next.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

As the global economic situation deteriorates amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and soaring energy costs, many aspiring entrepreneurs might be tempted to give up and wait for better days. This is partly due to the global financial crisis of 2008, which led many companies to reassess their spending to cut costs.

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Estimating App Development: What Small Businesses Need To Know?

YoungUpstarts

If clients want to get a roughly estimated cost to develop an app , company provides them with a quote in 1-3 days. An app developed to promote a special offer would cost about 5 times less while long-term projects with several app versions for different platforms can be estimated up to $20,000. Platforms (Operating Systems).

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From the Ukraine with Love

Growthink Blog

I recently had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Vladimir Lempert CEO and founder of Spetztekhosnastka, or “STO”, a plastics design and manufacturing company headquartered in Dniprodzerzhins'k (about 200 miles Southeast of Kiev), in the Ukraine.

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How I hired a great web developer on oDesk for $12/hr

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

In my experience, Eastern Europeans have the right mix: low cost of living, high level of education, high level of integrity. It took me another 4 hours to improve the design a bit and package the files into a Google Play app. I ended up hiring someone from Ukraine because he could work full time on weekplan but both were really good.

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I am a developer, yet I outsource the development of my startup

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

That’s right, I prefer writing code than writing words and yet it’s been two months now that I started outsourcing the development of TaskArmy to someone in Ukraine. I would procrastinate a whole week by developing something new or by tweaking the design rather than do any marketing stuff. Overall it costed me somewhere around $20.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

The human toll a virus could inflict and the immense economic cost of the emergency response stayed with him. As a child living in Hong Kong through SARS, he saw first hand the human toll a virus could inflict, and the immense economic cost of the emergency response. As a child, Alpha Lee lived through the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong.