Posts Tagged ‘development team’

Investment Criteria for Startups in CEE Region

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

angel_investorsIn today’s world there are a lot of interesting ideas for projects. But very often developers have not enough money for their implementation. That’s why they need investments for further develop the ideas.

October 29, on a conference at the Investor Day participants talked about how you can attract investment, and how most investors look for a final decision on investment. Edward Shenderovich (Kite Ventures), who was participated in the discussion, noted that the main attention is paid to people, team. Investor looks at their level of professionalism, the ability of this team to realize the project as well look at attitudes in the command itself.

Bohdan Kupych (KM Core) noted that there is a tendency in Ukraine: there are a lot of talented technicians who are capable of implementing any idea, but there are only a few people who are able to bring the idea to market. It should be noted that in the world, there is a myth that the Russian and Ukrainian companies will never become global. But for example, take the company Kaspersky. Just a lot of companies that do not recognize this, since it is considered that it might scare away large customers.

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Software Development: Trends and Perspectives

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Softheme is a software outsourcing company based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Today Softheme team wants to tell about new trends, technologies, and methodologies in software development. The most perspective of them are showcased in this presentation.

Offshore, Nearshore, and What, Rightshore?

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Since Softheme always keeps an eye on what is going on in the world of outsourcing, we couldn’t pass by one of the latest popular outsourcing solution trends called “rightshore”. Promoted by such outsourcing giants as Capgemini and Lionbridge, this type of service offers an approach to outsourcing alternative to “good old” offshoring and nearshoring.

In general, rightshore approach still does include offshoring and nearshoring models. However, the core of this solution is providing the ideal combination of outsource locations (on-site, offshore, and nearshore) for each customer’s individual project basing on analysis of project-related factors. Service providers claim that rightshore solution usually requires four steps to identify the right-shore location for any particular engagement. Here is the short description of those:

SWIT Investor Day