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Okay, so you have an idea, business plan and the industry experience.

The next challenge – Look out for resourceful, talented team to build your idea into an online business within your startup budgets.

Outsourcing services is the best way to find a team or a partner who can work with you and help you build your product.

Startups and Small Medium Businesses are increasingly outsourcing Web and Mobile Development work to offshore companies where the skill set are great and doesn’t push the budget off limits.

Outsourcing might seem as your best bet for your business concerns; however, finding the right company to achieve the desired results isn’t a walk in the clouds!

The problem with finding the right offshore company to outsource IT or software projects is unfortunately quite common.

The most pertinent question here is:

How to find a company that is capable enough to deliver among the crowd?

Many of us have heard some shocking stories about outsourcing.

How someone spent thousands of dollars during a course of 6 months and did not get any satisfactory results.

The most common methodology used by a majority of people is Google search.

They open Google, enter a couple of keywords of required expertise and go through a list of companies analyzing and choosing the one which seems most appropriate.

Money often becomes a decision maker and unfortunately this leads to some wrong choices and substantial number of failed projects.

There could be few reasons for failure over here. Let’s take a look:

         1. Late Deliveries: You think the outsourced team is working dedicatedly on your project.

However, it turns out that the team is working on several projects for many clients and consequently does not devote sufficient time to your project which results in missed deadlines.

         2. No Project Management: The outsourced company allocates staff for your project but lacks a Project Manager.

This makes it hard for you to manage the project yourself, especially if time zones are different.

        3. Lack of Understanding the Requirements: Team starts working on your project without understanding the complete project specs and the result is completely different from what you needed.

4. Inflexible Engagement Models: Your requirements as a business keep changing; however, the outsourced team does not have any means to track their tasks or effectively manage, hence, this too results in a disaster.

5. Human Resources: The outsourced company has a high attrition rate, so the team working for your project changes frequently which affects your deadlines.

6. Lack of Confidentiality: The outsourced company violates NDA and steals your trade secret.

7. Miscommunication: The outsourced team is good but there is a language barrier between you and the point of contact. This results in miscommunication.