russian speaking developers best match for estonian startups?

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These slides are part of a presentation of Mark Kofman from Programeter made on "Offshoring for Startups" seminar. Seminar was held on Marh 30th, in Tallinn, Estonia.

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Russian speaking developers best

match for

Estonian startups?

meet Anton and Mark

who are…..

founders of software startup

meet Arko

Java developer with 5 years experience

one of 3000 developers in Estonia

Arko works at “Webmes”,

earns €2000 per month, out of which he spends €500 on his flat and €500 on his leased car. And he feels

just fine...

How could Anton and Mark afford

to hire and motivate Arko to work at their

startup?

remember Arko still has the flat and the

car to pay for...

…if it is so hard to hire in Estonia

Anton and Mark decide...

let's outsource!

Anton and Mark have worked in offshore projects before….

.. so they know potential issues

biggest risk they are concerned about is understanding and

managing developer working in other country...

… so they find a solution..

work with people who

share common cultural background

what we have in common with offshore destinations?

what we have in common with offshore destinations?

Russian language

our unfair advantage

1. easy to find russian speaking project managers and tech leads

2. save on development costs

3. less missundersandings

4. huge resource pool

outsource to russian-speaking countries

unique (almost) opportunity for all estonian startups:

Russian speaking developers best

match for

Estonian startups?

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