Outsourcing is the utilization of resources to accomplish projects/tasks outside of your company's resources. This is often associated with Software Development work that is done in offshore consulting companies located in areas such as India, China and Russia.
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.Net Development team — what's the best way to start a company and get outsourcing work?
We are a .net development team in India, and we are looking for outsourcing work. But how to get such work, and how to represent in the market of software development? How should we approach clients ...
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How to do effective marketing of a software design and development company to win more clients/projects?
We are a small software design and development company with expertise in the areas on facebook apps, iphone, android apps development. Most of our clients/projects have come from sites like Elance, ...
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Web development - Outsource or go in-house?
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A non-coder friend of mine based in India is considering developing a portal for his startup. His is a web-based idea and the portal will be his source of revenues.
Since he can't code, he's ...
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where can I outsource miscellaneous jobs?
One of my marketing strategies for my b2b product is to contact businesses through the contact form on their website. Basically, I go through a list of websites, and if they have a contact form I copy ...
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Our client wants ownership of the code + no competition clause, but we need to re-sell this program in order to make money. How do we compromise?
TL;DR: "A client contracts us to build the engine for Warcraft I, does client have right to stop us using the same engine for let's say.... Skyrim?" (No contracts have been signed YET)
Actual ...
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Whats your opinion on using freelancing sites over other lead generation techniques
We are an outsourced software product development company from India, quite recently started. We started using freelancing sites for finding prospects as it was the easiest way to get started till ...
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Build an appliance
We develop a bunch of software applications. Instead of shipping the software we want to build an appliance, using generic hardware components (and Linux) and sell the appliance in the USA and India.
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Where can I find some help on designing packaging for retail sales of our product?
Graphic designers typically charge big bucks to create a packaging concept. Then there is the cost of packaging materials that can sometimes cost as much or more than the product. Does anyone have a ...
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Are there consultants or companies which will help me find projects in USA?
I am from India and I am owner of a Pvt Ltd company, we deal in software, web development, hosting, server administration. We are successfully in business from last 5 years. These many years we got ...
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Where can a find a list of manufacturers of fabric merchandise?
I started a small company almost a year ago now and part of the product is a white sock which is illuminated by flashing LEDs.
I'm pretty rubbish at sewing these things together and this is starting ...
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How to outsource a software development process?
We are having a good idea for a software product. Since its complexity surpasses the capacities for a one man army or perhaps of a small software team, it will be necessary to outsource software ...
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Finding a client for software development outsourcing project
I have led an established IT-company in Ukraine for several years now. The company's business is in the different fields, including an outsourced software development. Currently I realize that I am ...
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Resources for getting started outsourcing a software project?
I currently own a startup and we are planning on building some niche / specialized software projects built around our public api and some of our source code / libraries. So basically, the really hard ...
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Does anyone have experience with commissioning regular content?
We would like to produce a regular email newsletter but don't have the time to do all of the content creation ourselves, so we thought of commissioning regular content, and adding a few of our own ...
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Creating functional document for a website
I have an idea that I'd like to implement and on doing some research I realized that another website does exactly the same thing.
I would like to clone the site and since I am pressed for time, I was ...
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How do I find a professional to make my product (food) so that I may do the rest?
I was trying to find a company in my area who already produces canned food products that would be able to produce mine as well. I would like to be able to concentrate on the rest of the business ...
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iOS app development
What's the fastest way to get an application built and submitted to the app store?
We're willing to pay a development house (or individual, though we prefer teams). We'd prefer to use a domestic ...
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Referrals for Accountants and Attorneys - Is the Referral Independent and Objective?
When team building, most business partners such as your accountant, insurance provider and attorney are referred to the organization.
How "on-point" are these referrals in cases where the reference ...
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Should I delegate tasks to be done that require knowledge I don't have, or learn it myself?
First off, I'll start by saying I read a few somewhat related posts, but I will still ask my question as my situation is slightly different and may call for different solutions. Anyway, here are the ...
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Is outsourced infrastructure bad for investors?
I did work for more than 6 startups. I never saw it. But I heard from a friend that is working for a network appliance startup, that his CEO, wants to keep the whole infrastructure in-house, because ...
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Development (as a non-developer) Outsource v Inhouse
What are the pitfalls and advantages to outsourcing the development of a start up's product. I am not a programmer, my background is in business. I am more inclined to outsource as I am not located ...
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what is the best way to to reach web design agencies, studios and freelancers?
We are a small studio providing various website production services. We mainly provide services to web design firms and individuals. Currently i have been using email marketing, adnetworks like ...
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Code Review & System (Re)Architecture
I've recently been brought on with a small startup to serve as their technical advisor to a group of developers offshore. The product is an ASP .NET WebForms application. One of my first tasks was ...
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Outsourcing Development
I've read all the posts and articles against non-tech founders, I get it. That's not my question (this time..) My question is how does everyone feel about the idea of outsourcing development to a ...
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Outsourcing sales calls for online business
I am about to acquire a US online dropshipping business.
Most orders require the clients to fill out a detailed contact form and then a sales person calls them back to close the configuration and ...
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Is hiring average programmers worse than staying solo?
I have a reasonably successful SaaS which is pretty much a one-man show; I always wanted a co-founder but never found the right person. It's been running for a number of years now, growing ...
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Should I outsource the development of my idea or develop it myself?
Short background:
I have a web startup idea which solves an existing problem. There are many online solutions available for the problem, but my solution is "unique". I have done a basic background ...
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Can or should a small IT start-up delegate sys admin activities to a 3rd party?
Following discussions triggered on another question: let's imagine a small start-up company who has to decide what to do with its capital. Two suggestions are made:
a) The company spends capital on a ...
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Is it legal to pay outsourced hourly contractors less than minimum wage if they are based in the U.S.?
If I hire someone on oDesk or a similar website by the hour and they are based in the U.S., will my company get in trouble for paying that person less than minimum wage?
I've found some answers on ...
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How do I get the best result when outsourcing boring web research and data entry
I am planning to build an outsourced web research/data entry team via Odesk.
In my opinion the job will be pretty boring - it will require researching certain types of websites, copying information ...
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New IT company outsourcing Web Design to India?
So, I'm based in the UK and would like to start offering web-design services to my clients.
I myself am not a designer (I just don't have the eye for it) though I know there are many talented Indian ...
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What are my tax obligations when outsourcing/contracting?
I have an LLC and I'm looking to either hire part-time contractors/interns in the US, or outsource some portion via websites like elance.
I am not very familiar with the taxes or benefits that I am ...
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Single Speed Bicycle Startup - Looking for manufacturing suggestions
I am in the early stages of starting up a single speed/fixed gear bike company. There are a few smaller bike companies out there already that offer lower priced bikes in the $400 dollar range but they ...
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Should a Minimum Viable Product be standards validated?
Assuming a minimum viable product's UI and functionality have been tested, should one bother to validate to standards like W3C and such?
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Can you outsource sales for high tech companies?
Following on from my previous question about outsourced marketing can you outsource sales effort as well in b2b senarios?
Once marketing has brought in a qualified lead someone has to get the over ...
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Outsourcing most development/design for a SaaS startup. Is it feasible or will I go broke before starting?
The service I'm planning to launch, requires a lot of work (code and design-wise), and it definitely needs more than 1-2 persons.
In my country, start-up partners are hard to find/non-existent. It ...
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Ideas for outsourcing to a virtual assistant
Especially when working on a startup, the more time consuming tasks you can outsource, the better. Is there a forum or community that would be a good resource for ideas on how to outsource more tasks?
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Please suggest how I can establish a relationship with young startups in US using Social Media?
We are an young startup whose target market in other young startups and SME's. We intend to provide them with service like blogging, link building, content research and other activities that will help ...
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What type of service creates diagrams?
My startup idea depends on exploded product diagrams. I have some products that I bought and have nothing to do with manufacturing, and I need simple exploded diagrams generated for these products.
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Differences between “design contest” services, and recommendations
I need to design a logo, a business card, and website for an idea I'm developing. I want to use one of the "Design Contest" websites. But I'm not sure which one. Seems like there are some ...
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How can I find jewelry manufacturers?
We are looking to have a few jewelery pieces manufactured in lots of 100-300 at a time. I'm not sure where to look as we have zero manufacturing experience.
The items will be small silver pendants ...
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Am I being charged fairly?
I'm outsourcing a web project to a firm here in the US. I'm being charge $20,000 for a 20 day project, with 2 pretty good developers working on it.
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What test-assignment to give to a distance-working developer/freelancer to determine his/her quality
So let's say you are trying to find a freelancer on the internet to do some coding/developing for a web application or a more generic type of aplication (like a c++ developer).
What would be a good ...
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Any recommendations for technical writers?
Can someone please recommend a good firm or contractor for writing and maintaining an online product manual in English?
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Is Outsourcing Evil?
I find the topic of outsourcing incredibly interesting, and I propose the question:
Is Outsourcing Evil?
A recent blog post at onstartups got me going about even more about it.
Up until this week I ...
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Offshore software outsourcing price quote examples
I'm wondering where can I find some examples of price quote sheets for offshore software outsourcing.
My company has been getting quote requests for work, but I'm not sure what's the proper way to ...
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I need a solution for getting about 1K business cards into CRM
My CEO is a very public figure. She is at multiple events every night and rarely comes back with less than a huge stack of cards. I need to make sure the follow-up system is there, so I need all those ...
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New Startup - How to outsource everything without losing control
I run one technology startup now that takes up most/all of my time.
I have another idea for a technology startup and wanted to outsource everything either through contract workers or salaried ...
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So I've got this great idea for the iPad… but what next?
Maybe someone has experience with this?
I've been mulling this idea for an app that would really show off what's possible with a tablet like the iPad. It doesn't exist yet, and I want it to.
I'm ...
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How to find leads for outsourced software development projects?
We are a team of Ruby on Rails professionals skilled to create good web applications. What we are lacking is the marketing side of the business and we are looking to talk to people/companies who would ...
