Outsourcing

Prototyping

• You need one early
• Use it to sell your vision to investors
• You need a designer, developer, or story teller

Stay lean

• You need a specialized skill early but not forever...
• You have an idea, but not a long range plan yet.
• Only pay for what you actually need.

Test your team

• Temp to Full-time
• Trail period
• Hiring and firing is expensive

Be forced to know what you want

• Forced to define vision and actual tasks needed to complete it
• Forces you to look at actual skills needed.
• Will need to define for contractor and yourself.

Live and die by 80/20 rule

• Do what you do best
• Hire for what others do best (logo, etc...)
• Focus on the 20% of what you do that really adds value.

You can't afford not to

• Rates in another country are much lower.
• Workers in those countrys are highly qualified.
• They are hungry and will do the work quickly.

You are worth more than you think

• Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
• Opportunity cost is a big deal. What should you be doing?...

You can outsource anything

• web research
• customer service
• accounting
• blog and copy writing
• Social media marketing
• personal and administrative tasks
• blog comment moderation

Have others working while you sleep!

• Assign a task to someone in India, go to bed, wake up and its done!

Where to outsource

• Elance
• Odesk
• V Worker
• Fiverr
• Ask Sunday
• Virtual Assistant Job Board