I've put together many multi-company product development partnerships. However, as a startup, the other company may not consider you to have enough credibility (longevity, need to pivot to better meet market needs, time for product to reach market) and may not want to expend the time and resource...
I like Harvest both for time-tracking and for invoicing clients. It's simple, which I love.
The best way to find board members is to find people in your industry (or market) that show signs of being someone who would enjoy being on your board. These are typically people who 1) Are on other boards similar to the kind of organization you're starting 2) Are part of organizations that giv...
Quality control is always a concern when working with an overseas vendor, and I can only imagine your frustration with the samples you have received. My advice having sourced from China and many other countries is that you need a person on the ground to make sure your expectations and specs are b...
My response is heavily biased towards web applications, and in-browser bug reporting, though some tools may allow native iOS and Android implementations, as well. The answer depends on on the type of audience that needs to report bugs: private and targeted (developers, employees, etc.) or public...
There are plenty of US based dev shops that do good work. You can try that. If you are looking for a CTO you should use your network. There will probably be someone looking to do something new.
I've been loving Calendly--It links to my Google calendar, which I live and die by!
Here are some options: ___Free Options___ 1) Make apps without needing to spend a lot of time learning to code. Look into "MIT App Inventor" (http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/). It's a very _easy_ way to make pretty complex apps using drag and drop coding. You can find youtube tutorials that...
Your question is stated in an extremely confusing manner, but what I think I understand is that 1) you're developing a hardware product, and 2) you need to pay someone to write code for it, but 3) you're nervous about outsourcing the code development outside the US because you don't want someo...