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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. There is a core that exists in human connectedness that no amount of technology can replace. What about offshoring? First, many people confuse outsourcing and offshoring.

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SCribe Newsletter October 2008

Technology Council

Offshore Outsourcing is Dying…Long Live Hybrid Nearshore. 4 Rules For Email Design In [.] Here are quick links to the feature articles in this issue: Magnify360 Wins VentureNet Best Of Show 5 Mistakes To Avoid When Building Your Startup “Out Of The Box” PR Tactics.

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Teledyne Buys Instrumentation Firm

socalTECH

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies said today that it has acquired Odom Hydrographic Systems, a Louisiana-based firm developing hydrographic survey instrumentation. Teledyne said that Baton Rouge-based Odom has designs and manufactures equipment for port survey, dredging, offshore energy and other applications.

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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

Update from original - just saw a follow-up post by Ben Kuo - Southern California Technology Jobs Surge. The founder had tried or considered: Web Search – not all that useful – more design firms that development firms LinkedIn – searched for people, but gave up pretty quickly as it felt like a needle in a haystack.

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Interview with Satish Varma, Clorder

socalTECH

We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. We thought we found a gap in the market where we could fit in, so we looked at a bunch of the services which were existing in the market, and we designed our own product offering, back in 2012. We started our services in August of 2012.

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To Outsource or Not to Outsource Software

Startup Professionals Musings

Technology level. If you expect your solution to incorporate the absolute latest in software technologies, scalable to millions of users, with multi-system failover and recovery, don’t count on out-sourcing. Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced.

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Interview Eric Sikola, ExpenseBay

socalTECH

technology to make submitting expense reports extremely easy. Eric Sikola: We've got seven people full time, and all our development is offshore, our CTO is onshore, and we have people doing graphical design locally plus others helping part time. How big is the firm now?

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