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Do startups outsource their hacking needs?
I'm an American hacker and I've lived in the Philippines for almost a decade. I'm considering the possibility of re-launch an outsource programming business that failed several years ago due to shall we say "less than steller" marketing efforts.
I can provide highly skilled engineers in C++, PHP/MySQL and many other languages for labor rates in the $1200 - $1800 a month ($7 - $11 per hour) range and the Filipino programmers I've hired in the past have been more focused and motivated than most others I have worked with throughout my long career in this industry.
Yet I'm struggling to understand whether or not IT startups are potential clients for outsource programming services, and I'm also not sure how to market the business successfully this time around. Having a salesperson in the USA is something we didn't try the last time and perhaps it would be a productive approach, but perhaps other marketing techniques might make even more sense.
What do you think?
Are there startups that might hire me to provide their programming services on an outsource basis, or is my market limited only to well-established web and IT ventures?
Or should I be looking at other industries to find the best clients and customers for this type of business?
And what type of marketing should we be engaging in this time around?
- wird 18y agoI think that many startups outsource their hacker needs, especially early on. Contact me [wirdog at gmail dot com], I would love to find out more about what your engineers can do for me.
- sourcePH 18y agoThanks for your interest wirdog, I will email you privately as requested. My former partner had his own marketing ideas so we never tried to serve startups before. He always claimed that startups do their own programming. His big thing was to bid on contract jobs on scriptlance, getafreelancer, etc. but those were mostly dead-end efforts. We seldom got any repeat work, and too many advertisers care only for the lowest possible price rather than quality or reliability. Go figure ...
- gexla 18y agoThis depends. All needs are different. Obviously people outsource work, there is a huge industry which caters to those needs. For us, having a core team is important. Working with the same people and becoming one highly cohesive unit is worth more than the money we can save by outsourcing. Most of our needs are met by that core team and as a startup we have stay small. So, I don't think hourly rates are the issue. A bigger issue is human resources. For us, because we run a tight ship, money isn't an issue. The larger problem is our time.
- awad 18y agoawadsayeed at gmail dot com, i'd be very interested in hearing from you