5 Steps of Hiring Developers for a Startup

Using this model, contractors calculate the amount of work and bill for the entire project at once. On the one hand, such a model motivates the timely delivery of the finished project and provides the product owner with the opportunity to navigate the timing and budget immediately. On the other hand, to work successfully following this model, the contractor and product owner must clearly define the goals and requirements of the project, which means that there is a lot of preparatory work and a lot of approvals, which is rarely possible in the case of a startup.

Hiring a developer for a startup under the time & materials model, the startup owner pays each of them at a negotiated hourly rate and reimburses maintenance costs. The main advantage of this model is a minimum of preliminary work. The only thing that needs to be agreed upon before starting work is the hourly rate of IT specialists. However, this simplicity leads to the main drawback of this business model: the final costs and schedule of work in this model are completely unpredictable. On the other hand, it is almost impossible to predict the upcoming front of work in the case of startups. Therefore, with the introduction of budget limits and an approved time-tracking platform, this model can be considered viable.

Following this model, pricing is based on all team members' monthly salaries and additional administrative costs. This approach allows you to form a team, taking into account the level of professionalism of each of its participants and the budget of the project, which means it is suitable for long-term projects with unclear requirements. At the same time, the product owner can personally manage this team, and the administrative part of the work falls on the shoulders of contractors. The only nuance of this model is the need for constant monitoring of the project. Otherwise, a dedicated team may create a project based on their own vision that does not match yours.

It doesn't matter whether you're hiring a full-time team or a few remote employees for your IT department—developing a product and scaling a team with us will be much easier and cheaper than you expect. After discussing the details of the project, we will contact you within two days to provide feedback regarding the budget and project deadlines, and two weeks after the conclusion of the contract, your remote team will already start working;

We will provide you with a fully staffed team or expand your existing staff with remote employees using a network of more than 30,000 verified contractors from the CIS countries. As a result, after 1-3 weeks, you will get the ideal contractors while saving up to 40% on their services without losing the quality of the services they provide. Note that we never involve freelancers to guarantee our clients a crystal-clear understanding of the tasks and the corresponding costs.

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