Archive for the 'off-shoring' Category
How to get good off-shore developers - Part 2
June 19th, 2008Off-shoing your web-development is a great way to save money and, if you are bootstrapping a small start-up, it could be the perfect strategy to hang on to more equity and delay financing. However off-shoring your development is also fraught with risks, it is far harder to manage your development and communicate ideas, so it [...]
How to get good off-shore developers - Part 1
December 14th, 2007A really effective way of boot-strapping your start-up is to off-shore and out-source your development. But doing this also carries risks, how can you be sure that you are going to get a developer who’ll see it through and has the right experience? This post lays out an effective process to find the right developer.
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A step-by-step guide to starting up
October 9th, 2007Ok, so you’ve got an idea, you’ve got a limited budget and you want to start your own company. To keep control of costs you’ve decided to off-shore the development. Now what do you do? How do you go from idea to launched system?
In this post I’ll detail your first steps towards launch. By the [...]
How to boot-strap your start-up
September 12th, 2007The aim of many entrepreneurs is to take a business idea and convert it into a professional and functioning business on a low budget. This is typically called “bootstrapping” and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers, but when done well can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having [...]
Thoughts on out-sourcing
March 27th, 2006One of my contacts on LinkedIn recently asked a question about out-sourcing and I thought it might be useful to post my thoughts on this:
Having been through a vendor selection process which encompassed 32 different companies, some off-shore and some on-shore I’ve seen a massive variation in quality, costs and skills. I found the principle [...]
