What to Outsource (and What to Keep): A Bootstrapped Founder Framework
Best forSmall-team founders deciding whether to hire, contract out, or keep doing a job themselves.
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Kevin Graham runs a hosting portfolio with a few part-time contractors and borrows Bezos's brewery-and-electricity story as a test for what to hand off. He describes moving support to a 24/7 agency, giving sales tax to Paddle and owning no servers, and also the outsourced development that went badly. He closes with four questions to ask before offloading any function.
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