Startupping on Outsourcing Success March 28, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : Pajamanation, Microjobs , trackbackI’ve been thinking about how I can help people to find value in posting microjobs onto the pajamanation microjobs exchange. The Startupping blog, forum or whatever it is would seem to provide useful advice on the subject.
In Part 2 of a series, Mark Fletcher asks “What projects make good candidates for outsourcing?”
Keys to Outsourcing Success (Part 2) - Startupping Forums
Small projects work better than large projects. It’s easier to see if things are going wrong, and with the shorter time frames of a smaller project, you can come to that realization quicker. If you have a large project, see if it can be broken up into multiple smaller projects. Smaller projects cost less, so your risk is smaller as well. In some cases it even makes sense to pick more than one winning bidder, and then use the best results of the competing service providers.
and “will my ideas be stolen?”
Also, I believe that, in general, most technology behind an Internet service can be copied. It’s the execution of a business that matters, how fast you get out there, how quickly you iterate, how well you build and communicate with your users, etc. That stuff can’t be copied.
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