Outsourcing as a startup I recently read the 4-hour work week and came away a mix of excited, entertained, and annoyed at Ferriss' douchyness. The one thing it did open my eyes to, though, was outsourcing work to India. You can get Indian outsourcing firms to do everything from making appointments to writing grants (god forbid!) to writing code, all for unthinkably cheap rates by US standards. What I'm curious about is if there's a place for this kind of outsourcing in a software startup. It seems like there must be a number of simple, repetitive tasks you could offload, from profiling your users to gathering info on similar businesses.
Does anybody do this? Has anybody tried this? |