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Business Entrepreneurship Outsourcing

Outsource your idea | Launch your business for 1/4 the price

Got an idea? Make it a reality for a fraction of the price. The complete guide to launching your idea via outsourcing.
Bestseller
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (428 ratings)
42,903 students
Created by Evan Kimbrell
Last updated 3/2021
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Understand what is and isn't outsourcing
  • Validate your idea's preparedness and eligibility for outsourcing
  • Plan on budgeting and ways of reducing the project cost before starting
  • Navigate and operate outsourcing platforms Upwork and Freelancer
  • Use advanced search criteria to locate specific outsourcing partners
  • Build a contracting strategy that works with your level of experience and your idea's level of progress
  • Figure out your ideal price point and preferred region
  • Write job titles, descriptions, and settings that bring high quality bids
  • Conceptualize your idea through the Sx5 framework to solidify your featureset
  • Decide which features to include (and drop) in your project's first iteration
  • Rapidly sketch your ideas like a professional
  • Use wireframing tools like Balsamiq to quickly put together idea mockups
  • Break through creativity blocks and keep your project ideation going
  • Use prototyping tools to add interactivity to your mockup and pre-test features before slating them for development
  • Create mockups and demos that deploy natively on tablets and phones
  • Use advanced techniques for quickly bringing your project together
  • Employ best practices for outsourcing, such as hybrid rates, managing tone, and navigating legality
  • Use Asana and Trello to keep your project on track and increase project transparency
  • Bug hunt and run QA tests like a professional
  • Navigate the most common scenarios that arise from outsourcing

Requirements

  • No course pre-requisites
  • Access to a computer and broadband internet is needed

Description

What do Slack, Skype, Fab, Klout, and GitHub have in common? They all started by outsourcing their product development. They didn't have technical founders, they didn't recruit a team of in-house engineers, and they didn't have gigantic development budgets. Oh, and did I mention that they're now collectively worth over 20 billion dollars?

Every single company or startup outsources in one way or another. Whether it's your product development, your advertising, your testing, or your customer service - you need to be equipped to take advantage of the opportunities that outsourcing presents you. As an entrepreneur, outsourcing is an essential skill for saving money, being lean, and being successful.

Outsourcing is the go-to strategy for saving time and money in order to launch ideas that otherwise would never make it to market. You can build a world class product without hiring an in-house team or recruiting partners. When you finish this course, you'll be able to outsource like a professional. You'll cut your development costs by up to 90% and become a much more capable and skilled entrepreneur

At the end of this course, you'll be able to:

  • Create, conceptualize, and map out your idea in a way that anyone can easily understand
  • Take your idea, create visual wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that are crucial for solidifying your vision and communicating it effectively
  • Sketch, rapidly build, test, and collaborate on your feature ideas
  • Understand, in intricate detail, the forces that effect your outsourcing project and how to position your project to be successful
  • Write job descriptions that bring in the best bids
  • Put together professional documentation for your idea and identify potential pitfalls before you spend money
  • Select the best possible long-term team using a framework that's built over 100+ professional outsourcing projects
  • Employ advanced techniques for getting the best price and cutting your deployment time in half
  • Tailor popular tools like Asana, Trello, and Google docs to masterfully run your outsourcing project 
  • Spot bugs before they become a significant problem

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested in launching a business or product idea
  • Anyone interested in learning the intricacies of outsourcing and the best ways to contract work
  • Anyone interested in improving their skills in project or product management

Course content

15 sections • 103 lectures • 20h 4m total length

  • Preview07:34
  • Join our community on Slack!
    00:00
  • What is outsourcing?
    Preview06:16
  • What is it good and not good for?
    12:12
  • How much should I budget?
    12:13
  • Section 1 review material
    26 pages
  • All the course review sheets in one PDF
    00:01

  • Where to find outsourcing firms and freelancers
    07:46
  • Introduction to Elance
    19:31
  • Going further in-depth with Elance
    02:43
  • Introduction to Upwork
    19:38
  • Going further in-depth with Upwork
    05:51
  • Introduction to Freelancer
    08:44
  • Other techniques and platforms for finding contractors
    05:38
  • Section 2 review material
    24 pages

  • Choosing your ideal subcontractor strategy
    08:24
  • Deciding between a firm or freelancer
    19:52
  • Understanding how to choose from the best outsourcing zones
    18:34
  • Understanding price & autonomy
    08:08
  • The "Goldilocks Syndrome"
    07:39
  • Section 3 review material
    47 pages

  • Writing the right title
    09:03
  • Practicing with titles
    12:37
  • Writing the right description
    10:54
  • Getting hands on with writing descriptions
    15:09
  • Getting the settings right
    19:01
  • Reviewing your settings
    17:20
  • Section 4 review material
    20 pages

  • The Sx5 framework for solidifying product ideas
    18:13
  • Coming up with strategy, Sx1
    11:27
  • Coming up with scope, Sx2
    18:23
  • Section 5 review material
    31 pages

  • Creating an overview
    05:51
  • Adding the functions section
    10:29
  • Going further in-depth with functions
    10:33
  • Creating the pages section
    19:48
  • Creating parameters
    10:50
  • Creating the users section
    11:07
  • Adding comments
    02:49
  • Section 6 review material
    22 pages

  • Intro to sketching
    01:10
  • Materials for sketching
    03:45
  • Sketching it out
    08:02
  • The finishing touches
    14:15
  • Upgrade to a tool, getting started with Pidoco
    10:24
  • Getting used to the features in Pidoco
    11:41
  • Creating a quick sitemap
    13:40
  • Site elements to start with
    05:37
  • Using templates to save time
    02:32
  • Handling images in Pidoco
    09:36
  • Adding and controlling layers in Pidoco
    07:32
  • Annotating everything
    10:24
  • Alternative: Using Balsamiq for quick wireframing
    19:39
  • Alternative: Using Balsamiq continued...
    03:32
  • An example project created in Balsamiq
    03:10
  • Section 7 review material
    54 pages

  • Introducing M.A.P.
    09:46
  • Adding interactivity to your prototype
    14:46
  • Collaborators and reviewers
    12:40
  • Creating a tablet version
    08:57
  • Section 8 review material
    19 pages

  • Reviewing bid language
    09:29
  • Bid language
    13:44
  • The response rate test
    06:18
  • Dissecting the bid rate
    11:07
  • Section 9 review material
    20 pages

  • Strategy: The $50 test
    04:12
  • Strategy: Rapid cycling posts
    04:54
  • Strategy: The Keyer question
    07:43
  • Strategy: Repeat the project back to you
    04:12
  • Strategy: Get them off the platform
    04:22
  • Strategy: The long term strategy
    05:18
  • Strategy: Messaging freelancers
    07:13
  • Strategy: Dividing specializations
    06:25
  • Section 10 review material
    35 pages

Instructor

Evan Kimbrell
Founder of Sprintkick | Ex-VC | Ex-startup founder
Evan Kimbrell
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                  Hi, I'm Evan Kimbrell. Thanks for checking out my course. 

**My courses have been featured in Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur Magazine, BusinessInsider, BuzzFeed, Mashable, TheNextWeb, The Daily Beast, & Techcrunch**

        Currently, I'm the Founder and Director of Sprintkick, a full-service, referral-only digital agency based out of San Francisco. Over the past four years I've overseen the development and launch of over 100 web and mobile apps. Clients range from two-man bootstrapping startups to multibillion dollar Fortune 100s like Wal-Mart, Dick's Sporting Goods, and GNC. 

Prior to Sprintkick I worked as a VC for a new firm called Juvo Capital, based out of L.A. I spearheaded the firm's expansion into Silicon Valley and into the Consumer Web tech category.

                  In the long long ago, I was a co-founder for an educational software startup called ScholarPRO that raised a ton of money and then spectacularly blew up (in the bad way). Before it exploded like the Death Star, I went through five tech incubators (yes, five): Tech Stars, Excelerate Labs, MassChallenge, Babson Venture Program, and Sparkseed. 

                  Hope you enjoy my courses!

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