Should you outsource/offshore your business?
Filed in archive Bootstrapper Resources by Shawn Hessinger on June 30, 2007
When outsourcing or offshoring functions, either of which might be the case with Gourab Nanda's India-based service center, Atlanta-based technologist and entrepreneur Scott Burkett recommends (though more geared toward some sort of offshored software engineering
):1. Only offshore things that you don't mind losing a bit of control over. In the end, you could have very little of it.
2. Only offshore things that are not mission-critical.
3. Mitigate your risk - don't put all of your eggs in one basket by offshoring everything you do.
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