YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Few small to medium sized businesses can afford a separate software development department. If you do not currently have an application on this platform, you are missing out on potentially hundreds of millions of consumers over time. This is a great deal of money left on the table for such a small up front investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. If your software is your solution and “secret sauce,” don’t entrust it to outsiders of any kind.

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deal architect

JANUARY 26, 2012

I am helping review for a client competing proposals from several consortia of software vendors and systems integrators/outsourcing firms. The range of on-premise versus SaaS, onshore versus offshore talent, opex, capex, EBITDA calculations of license, hosting, maintenance, implementation etc.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Either way, custom software development is an effective way to build brand awareness and give your business a competitive edge. But the availability of outsourcing, offshoring, and outstaffing has pulled many away from the use of local developers. Out of the Box vs Custom Software. Services are also much more affordable.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The big irony about India is it has produced tens of thousands of software engineers, but hardly any successful software or web services companies. The reasons are many – its successful services firms like TCS and Infosys invest heavily in.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Prosperati HOME BLOG ABOUT CONTACT Blog Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2 Posted 07.15.2009 in Blog In my previous article ( Can a Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 1 ), I talked about alignment of interest and trust as being the two most critical aspect when starting a new offshore development team.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

This discussion began last week and has fostered some great comments and resources… Offshore resources/Europe company for U.S. I’ve used some local and some offshore resources and avoided larger outsourcing companies. I had a company in europe in the past and was very happy with the quality software we created.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2015

As “offshore outsourcing” is a favourable choice, due to cheaper labour in developing countries. Choosing an outsourcing firm though will provide you access to the updated software for the designated processes, as using this technology is integral to their business. KashFlow is Cloud-based accountancy software. Pros: Cost.

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deal architect

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Globalization and Technology Offshoring (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant) Outsourcing Negotiations/Best Practices' On the anniversary of GE’s launch of the Industrial Internet, CEO Jeff Immelt presented an update last week in Chicago. You can watch his full talk here. Couple of things stood out from an outsourcing industry POV As I wrote.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For example, Fayrix is an offshore software development company with multi-domain expertise in innovation development and experience setting up research and development centers. Indeed, the companies face the need to access tech, science, and human resources, so partnering with a dedicated vendor can be an option. Final Thoughts.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 31, 2006

The buzz around offshoring has certainly died down over the last year. For a period of time, you could not pick up a magazine or read a newspaper without a lead article on the dangers of offshoring. " In other words, most software development opportunities are with consulting firms where employees work on a project basis.

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deal architect

AUGUST 6, 2013

This article about IBM''s large contract with customer Bharti Airtel in India provides a nice microcosm of the churn happening around legacy software and outsourcing contracts. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP) Offshoring (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant) Outsourcing (IBM, Accenture, EDS)'

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

scale – this may include the need to go offshore. Agenda items will focus on key metrics illustrating value creation, particularly in software as a service companies. As a startup board member your duties are: to ensure the venture never runs out of cash. most importantly to generate value – fast. pivot the business.

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Andrew Payne

MARCH 27, 2014

It’s not the endless beta-test that software developers have, but it moves in that direction. It’s certainly possible that Kickstarter is the strategy fad of the decade, much like India offshore development was 10+ years ago. Presales are not perfect: a successful sale is not necessarily evidence of product-market fit.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 23, 2019

Timing and accounting software. You would need to rationalize your rates since offshore VAs are cheaper. Get an accounting software like Freshbooks to handle all your needs. The first benefit of being a virtual assistant is it’s an inexpensive business to start. Stable internet connection. Headset with microphone.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Tags: Enterprise Software (other vendors) Offshoring (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant) Outsourcing (Business Process - BPO) Outsourcing (IBM, Accenture, EDS).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2019

Looking to expand your reach in offshore markets? It’s tempting to take the word of referrals but when you’re searching for partners that will help your business grow in offshore markets, it’s better to do your research (even if you still intend to interview your referrals). To name a few: Increased revenue. Decreased competition.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 25, 2013

Dollars in an offshore bank. Unfortunately, most insider knowledge about Bitcoin (a bug or perhaps future criminal prosecution of large exchanges or software makers) will need an effective way to take a short position. Bitcoins are like an offshore bank in the Internet crypto jurisdiction. Dollars in a domestic bank.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Almost certainly accounting is a support service and should be outsourced (unless, perhaps, you’re selling accounting software and you need to eat your own dogfood!).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software? Talk about waste.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Labels: about me , agile planning , agile software development , cio , innovation , it management , organizational change , product management , project management , software development , software qa. software development. (47).

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

We have tons of software applications we use at Return Path, none of which require internal system administration, from Salesforce.com for CRM to Intacct for accounting. We all have access to more tools to self-manage productivity than we used to. Cloud computing is another great example here of how companies are doing more with less.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2016

You can’t eat through a web browser or move your kitchens offshore to a lower cost country! Restaurants hone a craft you cannot offshore and provide an experience you cannot digitize. Whether your goal is to build a career or a business, the restaurant industry is relatively untapped. Unlike digital fads, food is survival.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. Vendor long-list - build a “long-list&# of possible software vendors and NDA them all, but don‚Äôt rely on it (more on this later). Award contract - Negotiate a software development contract. Should I offshore?

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 16, 2021

Imagine if one hundred carefully selected, and successfully exited, founders who have sold their ventures offshore migrated to New Zealand to invest $5m each in New Zealand startups. Imagine if we supported and incentivised our tertiary and research institutions to grow more founders and spin out more startups. CONNECTIVITY.

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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. What that means is if they have a job that can be done remotely and it's not too specialized, let's say like a software developer, they just start us.

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. Managing offshore developers remotely The whole point in offshoring is to save money, right?

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. Vlad is also the CEO at DarwinApps , a software development shop.

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Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

   He's also requiring that you source your software development through his consulting company at a price "to be negotiated."    I've seen: A business fall into the hands of a minority investor who controlled the offshore manufacturing.    Does this happen? 

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

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. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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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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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 21, 2003

Having met with a number of NYC entrepreneurs recently, I am refreshed to see that many of them are utilizing offshore resources to develop their products. New York has always been known as a strong new media capital and not known for development of real hard core software.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Move R&D offshore Operations Follow your customer growth, don’t grow data center and support capacity ahead That said, I would like to close this post will a couple of more cheerful comments. software. (10).

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Moreover, the sophistication of hacking techniques has gone beyond software vulnerabilities; hardware is now just as susceptible to malicious injections. 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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