Twitter Looks to Outsourced (Re)Development Experts

by Sam on June 13, 2008

Back in May I wrote a post suggesting that we were going to see a rise in startups and VC’s outsourcing to software product development firms as a method for quickly assembling a team and in helping to minimize technology risk.

Twitter must have been listening…

Via VentureBeat:

Twitter, the messaging service that many of us love — and love to complain about when it experiences downtime — has hired a premier software development firm to help it rebuild its infrastructure, we’ve heard and confirmed with the company. The name of the firm is Pivotal Labs, a quiet but impressive group of big-gun, for-hire developers that already counts business software company SalesForce and a long list of startups as clients.

Also of note is that Pivotal Labs qualifies its client list with this phrase: “There are more startups that are in stealth mode, and larger clients that are a little shy about us mentioning their names.�

More: Duncan’s take

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    Outsourcing of software is nothing new, but I am surprised every day what new things are being outsourced overseas. I am seeing more and more legal work being outsourced overseas.

  • http://www.leveragingideas.com Sam Huleatt

    Outsourcing is nothing new — but it's definitely new among startups
    and venture capitalists

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    Outsourcing is new to me but i learnt about it 2-3 times but i never considered it. Since this topic is interesting im surely going for more research on this one. Thanks for this article.

  • http://www.leveragingideas.com Sam Huleatt

    Just to clarify for new readers to this blog…outsourcing is largely new to startup companies. Traditionally venture capitalists only back companies that work in the same physical location and have employees focused full-time on that company. Overall, a trend in outsourcing is not new…however it is new in the case of startups

  • http://directhomefind.com/california/burbank/ Monte

    Thanks for the last comment Sam, it helped make more sense to me as I am not very familiar with the topic. I am interested in Twitter so I will be keeping an eye on the topic.

  • http://www.leveragingideas.com Sam Huleatt

    @Monte No problem…it needed some clarification!

  • http://www.safebeginnings.com Child Safety

    Thank you so much Sam for clarifying much better about the Outsourcing software. That's really makes sense.

  • http://www.safebeginnings.com Child Safety

    Thank you so much Sam for clarifying much better about the Outsourcing software. That's really makes sense.