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I work as offshore / remote consultant with entrepreneurs and small-medium sized companies in the US. Some of these clients are working with me since 5-6 years.

x0x0 8y ago
You're not a good example though. You can definitely build a successful relationship with a single dev in India. An easy route is to start on upwork, pay well, churn a bunch of people until you meet someone good, then hire them. The complexity comes when you need a team of people to build more than one person can do.
- wordpressdev 8y ago
  Building remote teams is tough, agreed. But it can be achieved. Off-shore does not / should not mean cheap labor in some obscure part of the world. There are plenty of examples of companies thriving with remote teams, such as: Buffer: https://buffer.com/about https://buffer.com/about Automattic (parent of WordPress): https://automattic.com/about/ https://automattic.com/about/ By the way, I am in Pakistan, not India :)
  - x0x0 8y ago
    My apologies for assuming. I would say there aren't so many examples of companies with heavily remote workforces thriving. As a founder, this was the subject of a lot of internal debate. I largely came to the same conclusion as a lot of companies: remote slows down execution, and execution is probably the single most important thing for a small company. Also, this article discussed something different than building a remote team, and more in line with what most customers want: hire a mostly pre-made remote team all at once. The desired advantage is less cost savings and more speed. Building a remote team yourself is much more likely to work, but also probably slow enough that it's not worth it. You have to find a remote teach lead + hiring manager, work with him or her enough to trust him or her, and then empower that person to run hiring cycles.

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I work as offshore / remote consultant with entrepreneurs and small-medium sized companies in the US. Some of these clients are working with me since 5-6 years.

by wordpressdev 8y ago

x0x0 8y ago
You're not a good example though. You can definitely build a successful relationship with a single dev in India. An easy route is to start on upwork, pay well, churn a bunch of people until you meet someone good, then hire them. The complexity comes when you need a team of people to build more than one person can do.
- wordpressdev 8y ago
  Building remote teams is tough, agreed. But it can be achieved. Off-shore does not / should not mean cheap labor in some obscure part of the world. There are plenty of examples of companies thriving with remote teams, such as: Buffer: https://buffer.com/about https://buffer.com/about Automattic (parent of WordPress): https://automattic.com/about/ https://automattic.com/about/ By the way, I am in Pakistan, not India :)
  - x0x0 8y ago
    My apologies for assuming. I would say there aren't so many examples of companies with heavily remote workforces thriving. As a founder, this was the subject of a lot of internal debate. I largely came to the same conclusion as a lot of companies: remote slows down execution, and execution is probably the single most important thing for a small company. Also, this article discussed something different than building a remote team, and more in line with what most customers want: hire a mostly pre-made remote team all at once. The desired advantage is less cost savings and more speed. Building a remote team yourself is much more likely to work, but also probably slow enough that it's not worth it. You have to find a remote teach lead + hiring manager, work with him or her enough to trust him or her, and then empower that person to run hiring cycles.