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The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. One consideration that comes up often when outsourcing is whether to go with a local or offshore vendor.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Sales is more difficult and more important that you think, if you build it they wont just come.