sole concern with outsourcing

[bmarone]

Outsourcing is pretty much the way I'm going to go to get my product designed and ready for distribution, it's quick and, if all goes well, I'll have it out to the public sooner than later. However, one thought remains: outsourcing seems take out the "experimental" quality of start up. It gives you less of an opportunity to experiment with potential customers (i.e. the lean start up approach as per Ries) and creates more of a hit-or-miss scenario - you hire someone to develop it for you and hope for the best once it's out in public. Unless you have the funds available to keep a developer long enough to continue to refine the product according to customer's needs (which doesn't seem so "lean" in the start up stage), this seems to be the predominant situation when outsourcing. Thoughts?

Brandon

 

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