One Red Question - Is offshoring development a good idea for a startup?

on September 22, 2008 - Comments (View)

This week’s question was inspired by a conversation I had with a couple of very smart and very green young entrepreneurs. Armed with a great idea and limited funding, the two business grads decided to have their application developed overseas.

Ultimately the founders felt they suffered for this decision and are now re-building parts of the app in-house, and have hired an experienced coder/project manager to transition the rest.

I’ll put the question to you: Are there situations where a fledgling app can be developed elsewhere? At what point can an application be parceled out? Is there better ROI for certain kinds of development?