10-8: Outsourcing Economics
Comparing offshore agency scale vs in-house quality, and managing asynchronous contractor velocity.
🎯 What You'll Learn
- ✓ Integrate near-shore capacity
- ✓ Prevent offshore IP leakage
- ✓ Cost out blended hourly rates
Blended Hourly Arbitrage
Hiring an offshore dev-shop at $45/hour feels like an economic lifehack compared to an SF-based engineer at $150/hour. Yet most startups attempting this watch their codebase rot into an unmaintainable nightmare.
The truth: Offshore teams execute explicit, rigid specs flawlessly. They fail completely at ambiguous, product-driven problem solving. If you hand an offshore team a vague Jira ticket, they will build exactly the wrong thing 10 times over.
The economically optimal structure is a sharp, highly-paid internal architect who designs the system and writes hyper-detailed specs, handing the implementation off to cheaper developer capacity (The Blended Rate approach).
Reserve all ambiguous product-discovery engineering exclusively for your internal, core team, and farm out clearly defined, repetitive component building offshore.
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Replace heuristic guesswork with hard mathematical frameworks for build-vs-buy and SLA penalty negotiations.
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Module Syllabus
Lesson 1: Blended Hourly Arbitrage
Hiring an offshore dev-shop at $45/hour feels like an economic lifehack compared to an SF-based engineer at $150/hour. Yet most startups attempting this watch their codebase rot into an unmaintainable nightmare.The truth: Offshore teams execute explicit, rigid specs flawlessly. They fail completely at ambiguous, product-driven problem solving. If you hand an offshore team a vague Jira ticket, they will build exactly the wrong thing 10 times over.The economically optimal structure is a sharp, highly-paid internal architect who designs the system and writes hyper-detailed specs, handing the implementation off to cheaper developer capacity (The Blended Rate approach).
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