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Pros and Cons of the Offshore Company for Software Development

The Startup Magazine

The following are the key advantages of exporting software design to an offshore software company. Worldwide talent hiring. You will have access to significantly more talent with a wider variety of abilities and more outstanding portfolio cases if you outsource software design to offshore suppliers since the talent pool is greater.

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Can you hire an all-remote team using freelance platforms only?

Transformify

The ‘’Gig Economy’’ series sheds light on the future of work and the pros and cons of hiring freelancers and gig workers. My COO is a doctorate from Ukraine, where the economy has not treated him well, but he is one of the most hardworking and intelligent people I’ve ever met. I live in Los Angeles.

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Twitter Link Roundup #213 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! What Does It Mean To Design Websites Responsively? Vanseo Design – crowdspring.co/1k4hVyi. Showcasing The Design Of Startup Websites – crowdspring.co/1eaRtT7.

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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

So in terms of hiring, get people that can help you build the product faster… anything that minimizes the time between observing a need or a problem, and the execution or the fix for it.” Put your users first: pretend that your customers have a seat at the table when you design your product roadmap. Need for Speed, indeed.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine.

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Supercharge Growth Without Raising Money

YoungUpstarts

Myself and the other founders managed to develop our company and generate more than 200,000,000 visits, hire 22 people, get 3,000+ customers, and promote products for the likes of Creative Labs, Polaroid, and Sony. My good friends and I, all aged 21, were working on a design inspiration blog and curating content for designers and artists.

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

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Hire two or three great candidates for a trial. The signal to noise ratio is usually very good and I like their communication style, direct borderline rude I have hired developers from India in the past but it is harder to find the good ones among a lot of low quality applications. Ratings: I request the developers to have at least 4.5