Re: [spiers] Let's Network!
Hello YSingie,
I like your idea. My wife and I will soon be starting our import venture.
I know you are interested in first forming a group who are already into the
business of importing and exporting. However, please keep us in mind when you
decide to open your membership to new comers like my wife and myself.
Thanks,
Manny
Friday, August 27, 2004
Let's Network!
Let's Network!
Re: [spiers] Let's Network!
Hi Wai Seng,
I'm not in the Seattle area, but I thought I'd mention meetup.com
because it would be a good medium for getting other interested people
to join when the time is right (and also you can do venue planning,
voting to see who will attend, message boards, etc.).....and it's all
free (that's my favorite part! ;-) ).
Take care!
--- Wai Seng Yau
> Hello, everyone!
>
> I'm a fellow entrepreneur, specifically an importer, in the Seattle,
> WA
> area. My business is about a year old. I have come across other
> entrepreneurs who are importing and found that we all seem to have
> similar
> sets of interests, issues, problems etc. I also found out that there
> are
> many entrepreneurs out there who are working by themselves with
> different
> skill-sets who can help one another brain-storm, solve problems or
> simply to
> chat and lend support.
>
> I know we are all busy with many tasks and things on our minds with
> very
> limited time (or other resources). However, I would like to see if
> there's
> anyone out there in the Seattle/King County area who would like to
> form a
> group where we can get together and meet at a local venue and discuss
> interests or issues around importing and business. This venue and
> meeting
> will provide a great opportunity for locals to meet one another,
> network or
> even collaborate and help each other.
>
> As such, we want to make sure that this group can offer valuable
> advise to
> others and can provide mutual assistance and benefits to the group.
> Therefore, I want to only invite entrepreneurs who already have a
> business
> and already have products placed in the marketplace to participate.
> Of
> course we would like entrepreneurs in their planning stages to
> participate
> but for now I would like to just limit the group to people who
> already have
> first hand experience getting products thru the borders and selling
> to the
> marketplace. We'll of course, down the road, invite others to
> participate.
>
> I'm thinking of having our first meeting around late Sept/early Oct.
> For
> those who are interested in joining, pls respond to e-mail at
> ysingie@cablespeed.com with your name, telephone number, e-mail
> address and
> a brief description about your business. I'll start to put a group
> list
> together by mid-Sept to e-mail out to everyone who has responded to
> finalize
> a meeting location, time and agenda.
>
> So let's network and make a difference! Thank you for your time!
Thursday, August 26, 2004
Let's Network!
Hello, everyone!
I'm a fellow entrepreneur, specifically an importer, in the Seattle, WA
area. My business is about a year old. I have come across other
entrepreneurs who are importing and found that we all seem to have similar
sets of interests, issues, problems etc. I also found out that there are
many entrepreneurs out there who are working by themselves with different
skill-sets who can help one another brain-storm, solve problems or simply to
chat and lend support.
I know we are all busy with many tasks and things on our minds with very
limited time (or other resources). However, I would like to see if there's
anyone out there in the Seattle/King County area who would like to form a
group where we can get together and meet at a local venue and discuss
interests or issues around importing and business. This venue and meeting
will provide a great opportunity for locals to meet one another, network or
even collaborate and help each other.
As such, we want to make sure that this group can offer valuable advise to
others and can provide mutual assistance and benefits to the group.
Therefore, I want to only invite entrepreneurs who already have a business
and already have products placed in the marketplace to participate. Of
course we would like entrepreneurs in their planning stages to participate
but for now I would like to just limit the group to people who already have
first hand experience getting products thru the borders and selling to the
marketplace. We'll of course, down the road, invite others to participate.
I'm thinking of having our first meeting around late Sept/early Oct. For
those who are interested in joining, pls respond to e-mail at
ysingie@cablespeed.com with your name, telephone number, e-mail address and
a brief description about your business. I'll start to put a group list
together by mid-Sept to e-mail out to everyone who has responded to finalize
a meeting location, time and agenda.
So let's network and make a difference! Thank you for your time!
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Just Too Good!
Folks...
So a fellow has a good IT job makig $67,000 per year, and turns around and
hires an Indian programmer $12,000 a year to do his job, and pockets a cool
$55,000... now this makes my point... instead of worrying about his job being
outsourced... HE outsources and makes a killing on it. Article:
Outsource your job to earn more!
ECONOMICTIMES.COM[ WEDNESDAY, JULY 07, 2004 09:29:18 PM ]
Outsource your job to get a new one! This is the new mantra doing the rounds
in the US IT sector.
Programmers are outsourcing their software modules to cheap and efficient
labour in India. This way they get the best of both worlds- more money and
more time. They earn doubly - one from the outsourced job, other from the new
job
they undertake.
According to this concept the techie is able to give himself a promotion
outsourcing the specific modules to one or more Indian techies . While he takes
the charge as a overall project manager.
You can utilise the time in updating yourself to new technologies as well
as learning a different domain thereby enhancing your market value
considerably .
Says a programmer on Slashdot.org who outsourced his job: "About a year
ago I hired a developer in India to do my job. I pay him $12,000 out of the
$67,000 I get. He's happy to have the work. I'm happy that I have to work only
90
minutes a day just supervising the code. My employer thinks I'm telecommuting.
Now I'm considering getting a second job and doing the same thing."
Smarter techies are working for three to four companies at the same time,
outsourcing all the coding and just supervising them for few hours a day. This
way they are able to earn four to five time more than what they used to.
This is called the principle of 'comparative advantage', whereby you
concentrate on you core strengths outsourcing the non competitive areas.
The idea has given rise to firms named as micro multinationals. These
firms hire a small number of sales and marketing people in the US. The software
products are developed in Bangalore, Pune or Hyderabad.
The concept of micro multinationals is antithesis to the theory of
'Incubation'. Incubator firms are venture capital funded startups which divest
some
business functions to their investors.
Solidcore Systems, a security software developer with headquarters in
Silicon Valley, is a micro-multinational. Solidcore has 20 employees in New
Delhi
and six subcontractors in Pune, India. The company also has 20 employees,
including its CEO, CTO, and sales reps, in the US.
While micro multinationals purchase non-core services from outside
concentrating on their core competetive advantage. An example may be the call
centres
themselves outsourcing the non essential services of security, food catering
or maintenance to outside firms.
Says Rosen Sharma, president and chief executive of Solidcore: "We were a
micro-multinational from day one. It didn't mean I hired fewer people in the
US," he says. "It meant that I could hire more people in sales and marketing,
because I didn't have to concentrate on building R&D in America."
Venture capitalists these days compulsarily demand that the companies they
finance outsource what labor they can. Yogen Dalal, a partner at Mayfield,
says more than half the companies he funds have offshore workers.
The wisdom of outsourcing applies to businesses great and small. When
companies have some of their operations performed elsewhere, they reduce costs
and
allocate capital and labour instead to those activities that cannot, or
should not, be subcontracted.
When businesses use capital and labor efficiently, they can better explore
expanding markets. And faster growth creates a need for new workers. The
result is almost always a net gain in employment.
Outsourcing is change. As ever, change will be unacceptable to a few;
there will be "dislocations," to use the jargon of labor economists. Some people
will be too old, too inflexible, or otherwise unable to find new work.
But most Americans can relax. Cheap overseas labor means more jobs in the
US, not fewer. And working for a company that's both global and small might
just be the best of both worlds.
Over the past 10 years, 325 million jobs were eliminated in the US, but
342 million jobs were created. According to the Information Technology
Association of America, some 372,000 technologists were laid off in the recent
recession. Some fraction of those positions moved to India.
But the ITAA also predicts that outsourcing will create 317,000 entirely
new jobs in the US over the next four years as a result of cost savings. And
outsourcing generated 90,000 jobs in 2003 alone.
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