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Re:Outsourcing Core Business by rokhayakebe on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @09:51PM (#2413584)
Is it then safe to say you can outsource software development and focus on customer acquisition and support?
Re:Outsourcing Core Business by ladon86 on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @10:24PM (#2413666)
No, only that once you have your core features in place, building more won't improve your product and won't win or keep customers. Meanwhile, as a non-tech business, your competitors can easily copy the features you built, so how do you win? In the long-term you have to beat them on sales and support, and outsourcing that to someone without a deep knowledge of the product (as in the article) makes that hard.