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* Be careful to compute the actual cost of outsourcing (eg: include transportation costs, added time to write specifications, rework, etc). This is particularly
by extrapickles 7y ago
* Be careful to compute the actual cost of outsourcing (eg: include transportation costs, added time to write specifications, rework, etc). This is particularly hard to do accurately.
* Having some in-house production people help keep vendors from bamboozling on costs.
* Retain enough production in house to have enough cash flow to develop V2
* Out-source for better facilities (eg: they have higher precision machines than what you can afford), not that they are lower cost (eg: they pay their employees $2/day)
* It can make it harder to optimize the entire product