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New Incubators

Monday, May 28th, 2007

The new incubators differ from those of the early dot com bubble in the following ways:
 
Old Incubators
- Clustered together in a single building
- Websites launched after $2m in development
- Incubator owns up to 100% of it’s companies
New Incubators
- Engineers work on ideas remotely from anywhere in the world
- Websites launch on as litte as $50k
- […]

Outsourcing to Philippines

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Six years ago the call-center industry in the Philippines was virtually non-existent. And at that time, American company PeopleSupport who was providing outsourcing services to US companies through a call center based in St. Louis Missouri was watching the internet bubble burst and their revenues shrink.
 
So they looked overseas to find a low cost location. […]