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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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 10, 2003

When offshoring it is important to think about what can and cannot be offshored, whether management can handle it, and whether or not you open your own office with your own infrastructure or outsource completely. Most of us end up using offshore development to work on non-core technology.

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David Teten

JANUARY 14, 2019

Many early-stage companies do not have these issues top of mind, because so many founders are pre-children. I think it’s similar, but far easier, than managing people offshore. My wife and I have a lot of conversations about work-life balance, or as I usually think of it, making sure I don’t use up too many “spouse points”.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

These three roles are critical in an early-stage company, so if a non-technical co-founder can bring two of them to a startup while also being able to bridge the communications to technical people, you will be in a much better position.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

In particular, we think it would be helpful to the ecosystem if someone were to publish research on who are the most active and most successful New York-area angels, superangels, and early-stage VCs, in order to identify the leaders with whom entrepreneurs should most want to work. (it Is anyone else looking into this?

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I recently joined CoVenture , an early-stage venture capital firm that develops products and invests cash in exchange for equity. My comments here relate mostly to new or early-stage startups, as I’ve spent most of my career investing in those companies and it’s what we do at CoVenture.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

You may want to experiment with different products, tactics, and ideas in the early stages of business. The best thing about offshore developers is that they blend seamlessly with your core team. A clear understanding of your product offering, customer base, and business model is also crucial. Pick a manageable workload.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Prosperati HOME BLOG ABOUT CONTACT Blog Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Contrary to popular belief, most issues typically associated with offshore development are easily resolved. Related Posts Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2 How To Evaluate Early-Stage Web 2.0 Leave a comment Trackback Tags.

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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. The best way to describe my work is probably start-up CFO guy.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Single, non-developer (knows how the tech works, though) male w/outsourced offshore tech team, 30’s, dad, white. Different investors are good at different things—and they provide different levels of engagement depending on stage and how much they have invested in you. Two single non-technical guys, late 20’s, white.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

I don’t like distributed development teams in early stage businesses. What about offshoring? First, many people confuse outsourcing and offshoring. Offshoring is when you have your own team build it but your own team is located a separate location where wages are significantly cheaper.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

sites from scratch - Experienced with the majority of the social api’s (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Meebo, PayPal, Flickr) - Experience managing offshore dev teams - Most recently a Director of Product Development at an early stage funded startup [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: finding your co-founders [.]

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2013

has gone offshore primarily due to the toughened regulatory environment. It has gotten so bad that pension funds and other institutional investors in venture capital funds have told these funds to stay away from Life Science – or at the least, early stage Life Science. Pharma companies are staggering under the costs.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

During this time she began showing increasing signs of early-stage dementia. I learned firsthand about the everyday challenges those living with early dementia face, including using the telephone. Photo Credit: Tavis Schriefer. In 2009, my mother moved into a house across the street so I could help her with her daily needs.

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