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Five Keys to Our Long Term Survival

Berkonomics

Dave’s Note: William Fisher is CEO of Quicksilver Software, a software and Internet game development company in Southern California. I develop people, and they know/appreciate that. I once tried to focus on a single type of business, on the advice of a business development guy. Guest Post by William Fisher. Huge mistake.

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Outsourcing: Build vs Buy

SoCal Tech Calendar

With every new project comes the big question: Should you develop a solution from scratch or buy something off the shelf? With offshoring, custom solutions became much more cost effective, but at the expense of increased management or sometimes increased project failure risk. Wednesday, April 21, 2010 -- Build vs Buy.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

If you have a software development background like mine, Im sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. Marty Zwilling.

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Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass.

Both Sides of the Table

The patriarch of the family works his arse off developing expertise in making gloves for other people. That india isn’t just a headline about call centers, computing programming and offshoring. Slowly he branches into selling them on a small scale and the whole family joins him in the endeavor. But then the world changes.

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Five ways we are surviving long term

Berkonomics

I develop people, and they know/appreciate that. I once tried to focus on a single type of business, on the advice of a business development guy. Interestingly, we’ve won a number of deals by being the not–offshore alternative. Most people I know have had extremely bad experiences with offshore development.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. Marty Zwilling.