YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

I was a founder and former CEO of Mustang Engineering, and from 2005 through 2014, Mustang opened several international offices. which he and two partners started in 1987 to design and build offshore oil platforms. I know this from experience. He recently launched the Culture Code Champions podcast.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. Startup founders are driven to solve problems and make a difference – many want to literally change the world. Sometimes that will include pivoting the company, sometimes that will see the chair step in to act as CEO so the founder can fully recharge. Risk and reward.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Tags: startup software outsource offshore business. In all outsourcing cases, a detailed specification is required. Marty Zwilling.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 7, 2013

However, the best design experts can’t afford to be singularly focused, a point that Lead Designer and Co-Founder of Tackk, Dan Klammer, stresses in his approach. If you can’t find what you need within your network, however, the next option is to find outsourced developers in the US or offshore.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

by Andrew Ostashen, co-founder of Vulsec. Do we have offshore developers? Andrew Ostashen is co-founder of Vulsec , a Boston-based firm established to provide clients with the highest methodologies in data protection by delivering versatile tactics to safeguard information technology departments from hackers.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. This can often lead to introductions to suitable people, or into networks where you can find a technical co-founder.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The founder, Shelton Wilder (in the middle below), sought to raise $60,000 for 20% of the company to build inventory. It eventually came out that she had previously been a co-founder of a company that had made a very similar product and had sold $150,000 worth of slips over 18 months. This caught Kevin’s attention.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

It will be used to power Industrial IoT sensors to reduce wiring complexity and to high-power applications that will provide easy access to primary sources of energy such as remote and offshore renewable. Co-founder, CEO Aashish Mehta offered more insight into the company. TFi is revolutionizing the way we access power.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. View more jobs » Andrew Bolster Researching on the companies you Offshore Development work would definitely work you as it did for us. check them out at: www.amt.in

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

Previously, Rob was the founder and publisher of The New York Enterprise Report, a media company that served small and midsize businesses. 12:51] Sometimes when people talk about offshore or hiring people from other countries, there’s an idea of exploitation. And you can listen to it all on your lunch break.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? One consideration that comes up often when outsourcing is whether to go with a local or offshore vendor. Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on. Start a blog.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy.

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Initial investment in a company is among the first non-founder capital raised. Of course CapEx has been transformed into OpEx via changes in the tech infrastructure layer (open source, virtualization & cloud computing, offshoring, etc.). That’s no secret.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In the mid-1190s, the founder of Bre-X was David Walsh. Offshore Scams. Penny stock scammers often use offshore scam for this reason. The scammers purchase cheap, unregistered offshore shares and then sell them to investors in the United States at an inflated price. Mining Scams.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 21, 2013

As a one-man founder bootstrapping the business, this allowed me to hire a team for much less money. The offshore work should be completed parallel to that done onshore. (See also Are Crowdsourcing And Outsourcing No-Nos For Startups? ). Learning The Hard Way: My Outsourcing Experiences. Plus, with India being 2.5

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 16, 2021

Not all of us are built to be founders but we can all find a way to back ambitious, world-changing businesses; whether it’s buying their products, using their services, promoting them, encouraging and supporting them or investing in them. In the same way it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole country to raise a startup.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

He's a co-founder and chairman of Work Better Now, which provides talent from Latin America for US based businesses. So if you think about it, large companies were offshoring, I don't know, 30, 40 years ago they started. Number one, more small and mid-sized businesses being open to offshoring. That's workbetternow.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. I dont see any reason why having the team offshore is any more of a liability in this area than, say, having to do this work while selling through a channel (and hence, not having direct access to customers). Talk about waste.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Should I offshore? Why bootstrap?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

However, in meeting some of the sports startups one of the things that struck me is that most of the founders who said they wanted to grow big hadn’t given much thought about how they would go about building size and scale. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

I’m supposed to believe that my best innovation can only come from scores of startup founders who just made millions and have now become CVOs at my company? Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. Most founders stay the least amount of time they can.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

I’ve had startup founders tell me that it’s only about the color of the money, but I disagree. Be wary of individuals or funds sourced from offshore. Here is the inverse, sometimes called reverse due diligence, describing what you should do to validate your investor before signing up for an equity partnership.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

What’s more, outsourcing projects and ongoing operations to offshore teams on a contract basis is a more flexible model that’s easy to scale. Managers realized that there’s little difference between employees working from home on the other side of town and employees working on the other side of the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I’ve had startup founders tell me that it’s only about the color of the money, but I disagree. Be wary of individuals or funds sourced from offshore. Here is the inverse, sometimes called reverse due diligence, describing what you should do to validate your investor before signing up for an equity partnership.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Jack Weil, Founder of Rockmount. In 1946, he formed Rockmount, a western high fashion clothing retailer that continues to manufacturer it’s shirts in the US after many competitors moved offshore. Colonel Harland Sanders, Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Barbara Miller, Founder of Miller Paper Company.

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nickpoint.co.uk

OCTOBER 23, 2010

» 5 Startup Steps to finding & working with freelancers By Nick Barker As there are just two of us ( Simon Oxley – my co-founder and I) in our startup we need outside help. Rules of engagement – My co-founder Simon has done a fantastic job in the architecture and prototyping of our new website monitoring app.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

I was recently introduced to Bonnie Tinder, founder of Raven Intel. Her startup is on a mission to “quantify the quality” of HCM implementation projects, especially the role of the SI partner. As her site says “We’re amplifying the voice.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The founder had developed the idea after her daughter had been burned on a hot swing. The founder told a story of serial poor decision making and poor preparation, and of opportunities lost. She is looking to move production offshore where costs will drop to $11.36, but has not done so yet. The founder broke into tears.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I’ve had startup founders tell me that it’s only about the color of the money, but I disagree – particularly if you are desperate. Be wary of individuals or funds sourced from offshore. Look for a background and experience in your industry, as well as quality and style.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The business grew out of the co-founders love for mopeds and small bikes. Devin Biek and Richard Worsham, the Janus co-founders, were not experienced manufacturers when they got this going — but they figured it out. You don’t reverse a 40 year trend of offshoring just by talking loud. They knew that market well.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 7, 2012

As a writer, a consultant, and a founder of KILN, this Gonzeaux Tour is a form of innovation for me (us), doing something different, and hopeful of a better result, and yet, have not done nearly enough to make this idea pay off. It occurs to me that innovation is like this at big companies. It’s easy to be busy with business as usual.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 16, 2003

For those of you that do not know, TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) is a wonderful group and stands for the Indus Entrepreneurs signifying the ethnic South Asian or Indus roots of the founders. On offshore outsourcing, Chuck believes that is something that is just going to happen. TiE stands for Talent, Ideas and Enterprise.

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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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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Its interesting to note that two of the founders worked at the Seasteading Institute — they are a Friedman family ‘project’ that views government as inhibiting progress. Existing visa policies were designed for a different era.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

These founders are imbuing their new businesses with the values of our time. It’s the one thing that can’t be outsourced, offshored or automated. Now days starting a new business is as simple as a mouse click and a few phone calls – Instapreneurs. They have a willingness to ‘open source’.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Interestingly, we’ve won a number of deals by being the not–offshore alternative. Most people I know have had extremely bad experiences with offshore development. They’ve promised me founders stock in their company if I fish them out of the hole, which I’m well on my way to doing.

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