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One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy

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When we launched two years ago, for example, the whole development team was based in India. Plus, with India being 2.5 hours behind my Singapore headquarters, my productive workday was effectively extended. With some cash in hand, I started building a local team of developers to be able to improve the product more quickly.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

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Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, CTO of Harvard Medical School discussed this idea with me recently. Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C. In fact, using their expertise, they have also successfully productized various connectors and adapters to build unique value. For you, readers, here they are: Sponsor. Sequoia has financed them.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

Product Hunt, an 18-month old startup, has evolved from a basic idea into a thriving online community. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Check out his post on how he launched Product Hunt, a story captured in tweets, emails, and photos.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). The Dutch ‘invented’ the limited liability corporation with the inception of the Dutch East India Company. A conducive business environment.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

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David Crow writes in his article “ Founders versus Early Employees “, “Remember the goal is to incent early employees to have an emotional ownership of the product and company they are building. After all, I essentially created the product. You’d have to look at your stock options contract. PHP Veteran.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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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. But six months in, you’re gonna cry when you see someone else put out that same product you’re pitching me right now. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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Where can I find co-founders who understand distributed systems and databases? How have non-technical founders found technical co-founders? Finding Co-Founders: What are some good ways to find technical co-founders in India? Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? How many things on this list require technology?