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Outsourcing: Josh Lieberman, Co-Founder of KMS Technology, Atlanta and Ho Chi Minh City (Part 1)
Founded in 2009, KMS Technology partners with clients that range from startups to Fortune 500 companies to provide software development services such as research and development, product innovation and management, application management, testing, support, professional services, and staff augmentation. Sramana Mitra: Hi, Josh. Let’s start with some background about you and KMS Technology. Josh Lieberman: I’ll
Outsourcing: Sanjay Dhawan, CEO of Symphony Services (Part 6)
SM: That’s exactly my point. You can, if you go into a niche that is an up and coming niche that is potentially underserved and you develop core competency – the real operating words are core competency. SD: Yes. Their story, their focus was very UI and design focused. Immediately before this, like I said,
Outsourcing: Sanjay Dhawan, CEO of Symphony Services (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You can set up a 1,000-person operation in a certain region, especially if you run your own university. I don’t think that should be a problem. San Dhawan: Right. SM: There are two other topics I want to explore. One is, how do you go from a $200 million to a $1 billion company,
Outsourcing: Sanjay Dhawan, CEO of Symphony Services (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Do you sometimes do product development work for smaller companies for equity? Sanjay Dhawan: We did … not for equity per se, but it would be more from a risk and reward standpoint. We structure the engagement model where a portion of the payments are tied to either achieving certain outcomes or a
Outsourcing: Martin Migoya, CEO Of Globant (Part 7)
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajesh Nair Sramana Mitra: What is happening in Buenos Aires? In 2007, I did strategic planning for MercadLibre, a client of mine. l learned a lot about what was going on in Buenos Aires then, and I learned at that time that entrepreneurship was about to happen in a
Outsourcing: Martin Migoya, CEO Of Globant (Part 6)
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajesh Nair Sramana Mitra: What kind of investors have you been able to attract ? Martin Migoya: Well, we have investors from Silicon Valley with private equity funds, which do not invest in early stage companies. They invest in companies that have the potential to grow, that are tapping
Outsourcing: Martin Migoya, CEO Of Globant (Part 5)
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajesh Nair Sramana Mitra: Who are your competitors and how do you compete with India’s players? There are players in India who are also focusing on these kinds of niche applications. They have different cost structures, and in terms of cost structure, India still has an advantage over Latin
Outsourcing: Martin Migoya, CEO Of Globant (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Interesting. I have spent a lot of time in Buenos Aires. One of the observations you are making is that there is more of an artistic blend, I suppose, in the workforce that you are trying to hire, and that workforce one that sits on the cusp of design and technology and is
