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Paul Herdsman Of NICE Global: The Benefits Of Utilizing Nearshore Outsourcing For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

While traditional offshoring to Asia or Eastern Europe has always been lauded for its cheap labor, for companies that practice agile, or require better collaboration, communication, and a higher level of engagement, the advantages of nearshore software development are clear. What is the difference between offshoring and nearshoring?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

As I said to an entrepreneur from Hong Kong at a previous roundtable: whether you are building a startup in Silicon Valley or Timbuktu, the methodology of bringing a product or service to market is not that much different. With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica. Ten people paying $37.50

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Innovative Product Design #3 – [link]. Google Maps triggers military dispute between Costa Rica & Nicaragua – [link]. Best Practices of Combining Typefaces – [link].

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric.

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Ten Things I Will Never Have to Do Again

Software By Rob

Through my experience as a manager and employer I realized that the time and energy it takes to hire, manage, motivate, train, administer, and retain employees would be better invested in adding value to my products. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself.

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Ten Things I Will Never Have to Do Again

Software By Rob

Through my experience as a manager and employer I realized that the time and energy it takes to hire, manage, motivate, train, administer, and retain employees would be better invested in adding value to my products. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself.