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Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’? on Thursday June 07, 2018 @10:34AM (#17256074)
I've worked before with my two startups with teams from India, and this was a disaster, but I think the reasons why were:

#1 Lack of my experience in dev area - how to work with dev teams (mainly external)

#2 Pricing - I was price sensitive, and in the long term, it caused that the code was not usable while scaling the business.

I hated it so much that after those two startups I've built my own software dev company focused on one technology and a quite small team of tech-savvy colleagues.

Below my checklist that I'm using to evaluate the outsourcing companies with who I would like to work -> http://bit.ly/2Hthv5A

Re:How to hire top developers? [step-by-step tactic] on Thursday March 29, 2018 @03:44PM (#16710429)
Happy to hear that you advocate the same hiring tactic.

I highly recommend a podcast with Jonathan Siegel on how he used this approach on buying 29 companies and hiring people to run them -> https://okdork.com/buying-a-business-jonathan-siegel/

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