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How Gigmor Is Looking To Connect Musicians With Gigs, with David Baird

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(chuckles) I've been in a large organization like AOL, with really large groups of engineers, and I think the biggest lesson I've learned, as with many entrepreneurs with an idea, you tend to try to use contractors and offshore services. It took me awhile, to realize how many advantages there were to having a local team. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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Our traffic metrics have been growing, and we're now up to over 2 million monthly uniques, and 7 million monthly page views. We had some great offshore coders as part of the engineering team. How long has the site been up and running? Clark Benson: I founded the company in 2008, and we took a little over a year to launch.

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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

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He believes that one of the financial metrics taught at business schools and reinforced by Wall Street has accelerated offshoring of industries. But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations.