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Of course, there are always counterarguments. But it is the fact that you stack the odds against your success when you ship someone else the most critical part

by TheBiv 16y ago

Of course, there are always counterarguments. But it is the fact that you stack the odds against your success when you ship someone else the most critical part of a startup. You can do the same thing with a dev who lies to your face (rather than through a computer screen), but that is a completely different argument.

mseebach 16y ago
You've already got the odds stacked against you when you want to do a software-based startup and you're not a good developer yourself (or have a tech co-founder that is). Once you've decided to go ahead and do it anyway, you've a number of options, and you're not doing yourself any favors by ruling out options the way this article advocates.
klbarry 16y ago
A side note on counterarguments that is useful for marketing: Every logical argument you make has a counter argument, and if you make claims in marketing people will automatically think of the counter. However, if you tell a story, you can give across the same message and not activate that 'counter' reaction.
vgurgov 16y ago
>But it is the fact that you stack the odds against your success Source of this statistics please? it was not my experience that outsourcing isn't working. I can name a lot of successes from small startups to huge telecom giants. One of my companies is another prove that outsourcing works pretty well if done right. I can also name(but will not) bunch of people with zero experience in sw who hired "professionalz with 10+yrs exp" script-kids for $1/h who promised to deliver ething in 1 week and than blame everyone except themself for failure In my experience odds are against one one who wants to radically cut costs of sw dev. I you hire experienced good people (in your country or abroad) this is not gonna be that cheaper, but it will work for you if you pick the right partners.

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Of course, there are always counterarguments. But it is the fact that you stack the odds against your success when you ship someone else the most critical part

by TheBiv 16y ago

mseebach 16y ago
You've already got the odds stacked against you when you want to do a software-based startup and you're not a good developer yourself (or have a tech co-founder that is). Once you've decided to go ahead and do it anyway, you've a number of options, and you're not doing yourself any favors by ruling out options the way this article advocates.
klbarry 16y ago
A side note on counterarguments that is useful for marketing: Every logical argument you make has a counter argument, and if you make claims in marketing people will automatically think of the counter. However, if you tell a story, you can give across the same message and not activate that 'counter' reaction.
vgurgov 16y ago
>But it is the fact that you stack the odds against your success Source of this statistics please? it was not my experience that outsourcing isn't working. I can name a lot of successes from small startups to huge telecom giants. One of my companies is another prove that outsourcing works pretty well if done right. I can also name(but will not) bunch of people with zero experience in sw who hired "professionalz with 10+yrs exp" script-kids for $1/h who promised to deliver ething in 1 week and than blame everyone except themself for failure In my experience odds are against one one who wants to radically cut costs of sw dev. I you hire experienced good people (in your country or abroad) this is not gonna be that cheaper, but it will work for you if you pick the right partners.