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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How do investors feel about investing in an outsourced MVP?
We are a semi non-technical team, that has access to technical people that will oversee the technical side of the build. Our thoughts, are to use the working MVP to validate the idea, and hopefully ...
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To get business orders for Small software company or how to get outsourced by big companies [closed]
We are a small Software concern started before an year and how to get abroad software projects or how to get outsourced by big IT concerns around the world
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Another company to managa activities of other company
I'm wondering if there is any limit of activities another company could carry out for my company? I have a limited company in the UK, live outside the UK, and would like another company or a ...
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Order fulfillment by a service other than Amazon? [closed]
My product will be produced by a 3rd party manufacturer, and I am not overly keen to rent my own warehouse/hire a staff for order fulfillment (at least until we begin to scale).
We will be selling ...
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Which country to choose for web development outsourcing [closed]
So considering quality/price which country do you think it is the best option to outsource web development? I heard that Vietnam much is cheaper option than India. I don't know about other countries.
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What are some signs of a bad fulfillment company?
Most of the articles I've read online give fair warning of crooked fulfillment companies, eager to rip of the first-time start up.
The number one thing I've read is that "good fulfillment companies ...
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What marketing materials could be created for presenting outsourcing company?
I'm focusing on direct sales at software and mobile outsourcing company, located in Eastern Europe. Our management is often traveling around Europe to meet with clients.
I was wondering what ...
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Pricing for Onshore/Offshore Product Development [closed]
I just opened a software solutions startup and I have questions about customer pricing. The business model is to use offshore engineers with a US project manager, as well as local engineers, with ...
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Is hiring a virtual assistant (VA) a good idea?
I read in "The 4-Hour Workweek" book about a VA firm called Brickwork India.
I am looking for someone that will help me create some content for my website, like newsletters, etc. Is this a good ...
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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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Reasons to get local admin assistant rather than Virtual Assistant?
Under what circumstances might it make sense to employ a local admin assistant rather than a remote Virtual Assistant?
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Problem with outsourcing to freelancers
I have been outsourcing some work to freelancers. I have had some great success and some less than ideal outcomes. If I am working with a freelancer who is not pulling their weight for whatever ...
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Delegating software development work to freelancers
My partner and I are the only members of our startup consulting company. We are at the point where we fully realize the need to delegate work in order to grow. We want to practice our people and ...
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What Would Be A Fair Way To Pay A Freelance Software Development Tutor Coach In Online Marketplaces?
I have a wordpress development job. I want to implement the job by myself. But since I am not experienced in wordpress development, I want to find a paid tutor to help me in this job.
I plan to find ...
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Startup advice on business structure for an international call center
I'm Canadian and living in Canada and I have a professional friend who is American and living in the States. He and I want to start a call center. The operation will be centered around him for sales ...
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Implementation partners-protecting source code
I have an existing SAAS platform and I am in the process of working with multiple implementation partners or vendors for some enhancements. How do I make sure my source code is protected? Some of ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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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Getting projects for a software development company
We have formed our company (that is, incorporation is in progress) this November (2012).
Our company focuses on IT service management (ITSM) solutions and have very skilled professionals in the ITSM ...
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Tips for hiring a freelancer programmer?
I'll be writing my own web-site soon, and some parts of it I plan to outsource to developers (either people I know, or if I won't find any - developers from "freelancers sites").
Has anyone who ...
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Outsourcing editing / proofreading and design work
I am at the point where I need to outsource some work. I have been looking at a site called www.peopleperhour.com and I have got some responses on there. In fact I am meeting up with someone I ...
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Best way to find USA or Canadian company which wants to outsource their projects? [closed]
We are a team which has accumulated a great deal of finished projects (close to 100) in the last 2 years, and yet we were unable to find a good and serious company from the USA or Canada which could ...
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oDesk for Selenium test writting?
Is it "smart" to outsource writting of selenium tests to oDesk/eLance/Guru etc?
Is there anything I should look out for?
Advice on how to manage the remote worker?
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Outsourcing sites like Odesk, Elance etc for short work
What are the best sited for work hour by hour like proofreading for example?
The high end ones, like Elance, are difficult for work hour by hour.
On odesk you can do that, but there are lots of fake ...
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Does a US employer need to pay any taxes for a non-US freelancer hired online?
We own an International Web Development company and get hired from all over the globe. We need to know if one of our US clients, needs to pay taxes for hiring us.
They paid us $750.00USD via PayPal. ...
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Percentage of successful technology start ups that outsourced product development
There's an interesting question from this site, but I'd like to ask something more specific. Let me re-post the original question first:
In fact, I've seen some start-ups fail quite badly after ...
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How to start a company for my website and hire programmers without risk of losing my code?
I have a gaming website that is making me around 3000 Euros monthly. I see great potential to expand this website but it's not a 1 person job and I need to hire a programmer to help me speed up the ...
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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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How to manage phone support to the US?
We're a two-member team operating from Asia but incorporated in Delaware (for various reasons), and we'll soon release our first webapp. Since the target audience of our app would be US and European ...
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When hiring a freelancer, should I lump together related tasks or spread them out?
I'm building a web app that will require API integration with numerous platforms like Flickr, Tumblr, etc. It's relatively straight forward stuff--I just need to allow users to import their various ...
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Why can't I find any reliable web development help? What am I doing wrong?
I operate a web development firm with an increasing volume of work. Rather than hire local developers as full-time employees, I've taken the approach of working with a network of remote developers ...
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Outsourcing development with friends and family money
My cofounders and I have bootstrapped so far to get a hardcoded (doesn't connect with a server) iOS prototype for $10k from a local outsourced developer. We have no traction yet and are in need of ...
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I think I've been scammed by a programmer I hired
I had this brilliant startup idea for a while, and finally had some small funds to hire a programmer. It's been about two months now with no functionality results, and only design/theme drafts.
I ...
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Hiring a freelancer to build an app
I'm deciding to hire a freelancer to build an app from one of the following websites: GoFreelance, ODesk, Rent-a-coder, eLance.
The thing is that I don't know how much my app will cost me. I have ...
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MD based LLC, outsourced technical expertise to India
I have a LLC based out of MD. I got a contract for a US based company, but a portion of it is outsourced to India. Can I pay them with funds in India, or should I transfer from a US based bank, once ...
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A “competitive edge” for an offshore development company?
I am an American with (a bit of) a marketing background, though currently I live in Minsk, Belarus. I recently met the CEO of a very tiny Software Development start-up, and we developed a friendly ...
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Software start-ups: do you outsource your network admin?
For business, I tend to outsource a lot of things that I am more than capable of doing. Take, for example, office cleaning. Okay, I'm a slob, so in reality, it would never get done... but you get my ...
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Outsourcing SEO on sites like Fiverr
I saw a lot of posts on Fiverr where people who offer creating 1000's of backlinks to your website for a pretty low price.
Is it a good way to improve my SEO?
Is it safe to use this technique? I ...
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Contract with Web Developer
I am setting up a Web Design and Development business and planning to outsource development services to Eastern Europe (not part of EU). I am wondering what sort of working contract can UK registered ...
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Ending contracts with a programmer who is part of an outsourced team
I hired a team of programmers through an outsourcing website to developer a web app.
The project is nearing completion, and I need to end some of contracts but keep the top performers working for a ...
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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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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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Outsourcing to software development team vs an individual developer
We are developing a relatively straightforward Windows software application, and the question has arisen of whether it makes sense to outsource to a four-person development team (Project Manager, ...
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How much should I expect to pay for design work?
I received a quote for design work for my web / iPhone startup - it was quite a bit higher than what I expected, but I wanted to check if my expectations are off. The quote is from an overseas agency ...
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Is choosing a commercial technology going to make it harder to find hackers to hire?
I am currently working as a tech advisor for a start-up. We tried composing a dev team for a while, but were unable to find talented people.
We got a proposal from a company to build our app, backed ...
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Dilemma: to outsource the coding or do it yourself
I develop and sell iPhone apps. I've released one app, and decided to build a few more, in parallel. I thought about outsourcing some of the coding, so I went on Elance and posted some jobs there. The ...
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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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How much can a business founder outsource in a web startup?
Sure, it would be ideal to find a tech cofounder, but that is not always possible. It is easy to oursource the work to build the initial website, but as the website grows and user activity increases, ...
