Title: This is a follow up for &quot;What up with these startup salaries?&quot;(https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9052727)
If salaries are much low in startups comparing to Big Co.s why don&#x27;t startup owners outsource  the development in cheaper labor countries and work on marketing, selling of their startups.<p>I am from Central Asia, here you can easily hire really good developers for 2K$, avg 1K$ and beginners are ready to work for &lt;500$.<p>Most of the companies are already outsorcing their development here and selling in Europe, US.<p>Most of us may think developers aren&#x27;t good enough. To some extent you maybe right, but in general thats not true. Avg. developers maybe haven&#x27;n worked with AWS so far, because mostly no demand for AWS in local IT companies, catching up is no problem. Instagram owners also haven&#x27;t worked with highload before gaining success.<p><i>Update: </i> Please consider offshoring also, not only outsourcing.<p><i>Update: Reasons so far(ordered by priority, opinionated):</i><p>0. Mindset, (founders love vs contractors need) to make product<p>1. Not comfortable with remote workers or difficult to manage<p>2. High gaps in skillset<p>3. Time&#x2F;Cultural&#x2F;Language barriers<p>4. Low quality implementation (docs, tests, code)<p>5. Retained value
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