I have built one startup on "outsourced" labor in India and would highly recommend it. The folks I hired were excellent, and I'd highly recommend them to any we

I have built one startup on "outsourced" labor in India and would highly recommend it. The folks I hired were excellent, and I'd highly recommend them to any western employer. One of them I later attempted to hire at an American company, we just missed the visa window. I put the word "outsourced" in quotes because I also moved to Pune. So it wasn't really "outsourcing" in the traditional sense of hiring some of "those people" and throwing work over the wall at them - it was really just building a company with people who happened to live in Pune. It's a great way to get more bang for your buck. Indian devs are just as good as NRI devs and ABCD devs (which most companies already have plenty of) - just cheaper. Of course, VC's may not like it.