Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

What about offshoring? First, many people confuse outsourcing and offshoring. Offshoring is when you have your own team build it but your own team is located a separate location where wages are significantly cheaper. I prefer that early stage companies not offshore development. I have another exception.

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Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2017

David Baird: We really began as a musician matching site, kind of a LinkedIn for musicians. The way we reached that, was we saw that people were starting to use our site to discover and book talent. However, that was not exactly how the site was optimized. How did you start the company?

Startup 150

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

Freelance Sites – considered, not used, concerned about quality Craigslist - considered, not used, concerned about quality Local networking – decent luck. I’ll leave that for another discussion as the inquiry that I keep getting is more about local talent than offshore talent. I’m sure we’d all like to hear about it.

Develop 175

Develop Development TechEmpower Southern California 175

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I first learned the ropes around SEO (search engine optimization) and how for years this has been a cat-and-mouse game where people game the system (Google) through link exchanges, offshore SEO “agencies,&# widgets, algorithmically optimized content and the like that degrades the quality of search results. Traffic rolled in.

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News Blogging Search Engine Optimization SEO 284

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

How long has the site been up and running? What have you learned so far in getting the site up and running? A very small amount of those sites have had funding, but there are certainly websites about lists. We had some great offshore coders as part of the engineering team.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. We found out that sites like Eat24 and Grubhub are portals. My first step was working at a startup, which launched Dell phones for Android, and after which I ended up in Chicago at Vcube Communications.

Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Social Media Outsource Development 100