What do Slack, Fab, Skype, Klout, and GitHub all have in common?
They all started by outsourcing their product development.
They didn't have technical founders, they didn't recruit a team of in-house engineers, and they didn't have gigantic development budgets.
(And oh did I mention, they're collectively worth over 20 Billion dollars?)
Outsourcing is the GO - TO strategy for saving time, money, and launching ideas that otherwise would never make it to market
Did you know you can build a world class product without hiring an in-house team or recruiting partners?
When you finish this course, you'll be able to outsource like a professional. You'll cut your development costs by up to 90% and become a much more capable & skilled entrepreneur
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Why you should take this course:
Every single company or startup outsources in one way or another. Whether its your product development, your advertising, your testing, or customer service - you need to be equipped to take advantage the opportunity outsourcing presents you.
As an entrepreneur in 2015, outsourcing is an essential skill for saving money, being lean, and being successful.
At the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- Create, conceptualize, and map out your idea in a way that anyone can easily understand
- Take your idea and create visual wireframes, mockups, and prototype that are crucial for solidifying your vision and communicating it effectively
- How to sketch on the fly and rapidly build out, test, and collaborate on your feature ideas.
- Understand in intricate detail the forces that effect your outsourcing project and how to position your project to be successful
- Write job descriptions that bring in the best bids and are tailored for each platform
- Put together professional documentation for your idea and identify any potential pitfalls before you spend any money
- Select the best possible long term team based on a framework built over 100+ professional outsourcing projects.
- Employ 10 advanced techniques for getting the best price and cutting your deployment time in half
- Tailor popular tools like Asana, Trello, and Google docs to run your outsourcing project masterfully
- Spot and document bugs before they become a significant problem
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About the instructor:
Top rated Udemy Instructor with over 300+ 5 star reviews and over 11,000 students
All courses by the instructor have 100% positive reviews with an average of 4.95 stars.
Startup founder for 5 years, raised 3 rounds of capital worth several millions of dollars.
Worked as a VC and was in charge of deal flow in Silicon Valley. Oversaw investments in large companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, & Tesla.
Currently owns and runs Sprintkick, a web agency, that builds web and mobile apps for 20+ Fortune 500 companies. Created and launched over 100+ apps in the last 4 years.
Hi, I'm Evan Kimbrell. Thanks for checking out my course.
Currently, I'm the Founder, Director of Sprintkick, a referral based full service digital agency based out of San Francisco. Over the last 4 years, I've overseen the development and launch of over 100 web and mobile apps. Clients range from 1-2 man team startups bootstrapping their initial idea, to multibillion dollar Fortune 100s like Wal-Mart, Dick's Sporting Goods, & GNC.
I'm an avid AirBNB host for the Fishermans Wharf district of San Francisco. My space has the #1 search ranking for my area, has hosted over 200+ people, and is currently booking out 18 months in advance :) Over the last year I've helped multiple other hosts get their properties listed and maximize their price per night. Results range from an extra +50% in price for established hosts, and +400% for brand new hosts.
Previous to Sprintkick, I worked as a VC for a brand new firm called Juvo Capital, based out of L.A. I spearheaded the firms expansion into Silicon Valley deal flow and into Consumer Web tech category.
Previous to working for Juvo, in the long long ago, I was a co-founder for a educational software startup called ScholarPRO that raised a ton of money and then spectacularly blew up (in the bad way). Before it exploded like the Death Star, I went through 5 tech incubators (yes 5) with Tech Stars, Excelerate Labs, MassChallenge, Babson Venture Program, and Sparkseed.
Hope you enjoy my courses!