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Interview with Satish Varma, Clorder

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We are an online ordering platform, that helps restaurants enhance their web presence and the profitability of their brand. We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. They own the customer, and if they want, can send that customer to any other restaurant.

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Five ways we are surviving long term

Berkonomics

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. Now we’re doing it again with various Web toolkits, since everything we do now has a heavy back–end component.

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Five Keys to Our Long Term Survival

Berkonomics

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. Now we’re doing it again with various Web toolkits, since everything we do now has a heavy back-end component.

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

Both Sides of the Table

panel at the dawn of what people began calling “web 2.0.”. The next generation takes the baton from their patriarch’s achievements and learn how to do better distribution, how to win over large customers, how to scale manufacturing, how to develop a niche market and be known as best-in-class in that niche. It was an “enterprise 2.0”

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

Both Sides of the Table

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant.