Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 29, 2012

I’m posting my analysis of the most interesting story of Shark Tank season 4 episode 7 over there, and reviewing the rest of the pitches here. The SBU retails for $1,800 and costs $250 to make in an offshore factory. You never get just one offer to invest in your company. You either get zero, or many.

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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. What is your competitive advantage? What are your goals for TransferFi in 2019? Walk us through the deployment process of the TFi WPN.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Before you move to the UAE and set up your business, you might want to attend certain events to learn more about the offshore company formation in Dubai. Dubai is the only place that stands out from the rest of the Middle East. Read on to learn more about why Dubai is the perfect place for your new business set up.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

startups ignore the rest of the world until they scale in their own country. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. With 317 million people the U.S. has a large enough market that most U.S. Outside the U.S. while building their products in China.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2017

Organisations should be well aware of the prevailing legal regulations that govern ever growing popular technology solutions such as cloud storage, collection, analysis, and offshore storage of customer data. Here are a few tips for organisations to ensure that they comply with the legal regulations where they operate in.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. Simply tell them what you need and they'll handle the rest hassle free. But now we're starting to see a trend of two trends. That's workbetternow.com.

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Life Beyond Code

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Forgetting that the commodity stuff can’t get a premium : If one spends a lot of time on commodity work, it can be hard work but it is something that “someone else&# could have easily done for the same or less price (consider outsourcing or offshoring or both.) That’s the most an employer can do.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. How about if we look at it from the “rest of company” perspective. Let’s assume an early-stage company around for 2 years with limited traction. We get the mechanics. But what is so corrosive about this?

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

It may be all for the best if criminals are under the impression that their data is protected from prying eyes, but the rest of us shouldn’t be so naïve. This has prompted some to move their entire operations offshore to try and avoid the prying hands of local government agencies.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2016

These tours are scheduled when the carriers are offshore training, not when they are deployed on missions. At each stop an officer or enlisted man gave us an articulate description of what equipment we were looking at and how it fit into the rest of the carrier.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 13, 2024

Simply tell them what you need and they'll handle the rest hassle-free. Work better now provides outstanding talent from Latin America, hand matched to your business with over 40 roles across various industries, including marketing, there are a reliable partner for consistently finding the perfect fit for your business.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of course, over the last decade, the rest of the world doesn’t need to read these blogs to see what’s going on. This is a very clever way of helping new funds get their footing and hearing about what is working before others may pick up the scent. Global and Local. On the ground, I am seeing more hybrid solutions.

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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. This does show that venture backed companies have a huge impact on the US economy.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

Remember that your team is the foundation on which your startup rests. The best thing about offshore developers is that they blend seamlessly with your core team. These can be valuable in the tech industry as you get insights into consumer expectations. Moreover, they help you to stay relevant and innovate continually.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

10k can pay for a senior offshore developer ($15/hour) full-time for 4 months. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Think 1-3 person teams who release v1.0 in 4-6 months (mostly SaaS startups and MicroISVs). In this scenario, $5k or $10k goes a long way towards bringing a product to fruition. Check out my book Like this post?

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2022

China also emerged from decades of socialist isolation to engage with the rest of the world, employing a market based “socialism” with Chinese characteristics. Offshoring is going in reverse, particularly for strategically important industries like semiconductors or communications equipment.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Only eBay was founded by a single individual – the rest were team efforts. pretty much sums everything up well, but – let’s be honest here – if you live outside Silicon Valley, you are going to be at odds, because the rest of the world hasn’t yet caught up with this tech start-up thing.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And for consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers. They can get to more computing power via their laptop through Amazon Web Services than existed in the entire world when I started in Silicon Valley. China has simply become the factory.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. These vary wildly but a really good logo can be had for around $500 and offshore graphics people are fairly cheap ($25-35/hr range). January 7th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? 27 Wayne Iyer on 01.08.09

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

and British governments have forced much of the rest of the world to create a more transparent financial system in which bad actors are more likely to be reported to authorities. Most offshore jurisdictions have had to shift their businesses away from helping. But the U.S. They spent time and effort and had real pros helping them.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Optimizing profit above else led to wholesale offshoring of manufacturing and entire industries in order to lower costs. At stake is whether the rest of the 21st century will be determined by an authoritarian government wiling to impose a dystopian future on the world, or free nations able to determine their own future.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Save the rest for later. No need to even tell people about the rest unless theyre really really interested. Then carry on with the rest. Gustavo Hernando (2010-06-19) # Another helpful thing to do when it comes time to talk about the rest of the features you want, is to create a VALUE vs EFFORT chart. Very important!

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