This is a follow up for "What up with these startup salaries?"(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052727)
If salaries are much low in startups comparing to Big Co.s why don't startup owners outsource the development in cheaper labor countries and work on marketing, selling of their startups.
I am from Central Asia, here you can easily hire really good developers for 2K$, avg 1K$ and beginners are ready to work for <500$.
Most of the companies are already outsorcing their development here and selling in Europe, US.
Most of us may think developers aren't good enough. To some extent you maybe right, but in general thats not true. Avg. developers maybe haven'n worked with AWS so far, because mostly no demand for AWS in local IT companies, catching up is no problem. Instagram owners also haven't worked with highload before gaining success.
Update: Please consider offshoring also, not only outsourcing.
Update: Reasons so far(ordered by priority, opinionated):
0. Mindset, (founders love vs contractors need) to make product
1. Not comfortable with remote workers or difficult to manage
2. High gaps in skillset
3. Time/Cultural/Language barriers
4. Low quality implementation (docs, tests, code)
5. Retained value
I am from Central Asia, here you can easily hire really good developers for 2K$, avg 1K$ and beginners are ready to work for <500$.
Most of the companies are already outsorcing their development here and selling in Europe, US.
Most of us may think developers aren't good enough. To some extent you maybe right, but in general thats not true. Avg. developers maybe haven'n worked with AWS so far, because mostly no demand for AWS in local IT companies, catching up is no problem. Instagram owners also haven't worked with highload before gaining success.
Update: Please consider offshoring also, not only outsourcing.
Update: Reasons so far(ordered by priority, opinionated):
0. Mindset, (founders love vs contractors need) to make product
1. Not comfortable with remote workers or difficult to manage
2. High gaps in skillset
3. Time/Cultural/Language barriers
4. Low quality implementation (docs, tests, code)
5. Retained value