Can A Startup Do Offshore Development? Part 3

Posted 02.02.2010 in Business, Technology
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The biggest issue we faced as a team, with half our staff in the US and the other half in Malaysia, wasn’t communication, culture or misalignment of interest. It was collaboration.

Are You A Stamper Or A Painter?

Posted 10.03.2009 in Faith
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There was once a man who visited a machine world.
He saw a young stamper. It’s purpose was to stamp pieces of metal and make them flat. The man was curious.
“What are you doing?” asked the man.
“I’m stamping. I’m a stamper.” said the machine proudly. “I stamp pieces of metal and I make them into [...]

Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

Posted 07.15.2009 in Business, Technology
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In my previous article (Can a Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 1), I talked about alignment of interest and trust as being the two most critical aspect when starting a new offshore development team. Now on to more operational considerations.
Hiring
Of all the issues we ran into when we first built our team, hiring was the most critical. [...]

Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 1

Posted 06.30.2009 in Business, Technology
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One of the first things I did at Zoecity was to build a new engineering team based in Malaysia. Zoecity’s headquarters is in Seattle but we have a satellite office in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. We started looking in January of 2008 and it took us roughly six months to fully staff our [...]

Delighting In The Lord

Posted 06.25.2009 in Faith
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Are we setting our priorities straight to get what we want? Is it possible for us to have our cake and eat it too? Psalm 23 suggest we can. Delight yourself in the LORD.