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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. Marty Zwilling.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. Marty Zwilling.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. Marty Zwilling.

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3 Mistakes Software Developers Make That Can Cost You Your Business

Inverted Software

At Inverted Software we often help our clients manage offshore and onshore development teams. Experimenting with Bleeding Edge technologies. They learn and try new frameworks and technologies and often get excited about the possibilities of incorporating technology they deem cool into their code.

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6 Ways To Prevent Disastrous Outsourcing Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. Marty Zwilling.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

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And they might give a premium if the team has been around a longer period of time, has built some hard-to-build proprietary technology or has some customer traction. Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely.

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