[kirubakaran]

It would be great if you can learn and do it on your own, with the close knit team you put together. But if that is out of question and your choices are either to do nothing and stay with your boring job or outsource, I would say you outsource at least to see if it flies. You would at least have first hand experience of outsourcing by the the end of it.

You may want to get a "virtual assistant" first to see how it goes. If you get burnt by that, you can cut your losses early. But chances are you will find a creative use for them that might give you a competitive edge.

Have you read "The 4-Hour Workweek"?

[qaexl]

You're talking about outsourcing non-programmers. The guy who was asking was asking about outsourcing programmers.

I am wary of outsourcing. I've done some work on RentACoder ... most of the people there want cheap work done for crap. I've picked up some projects where I ended up fixing mistakes from other people's code. They were candidates for a DailyWTF submission. Some of these people were from overseas, and some were from right here in the US.

However, outsourcing non-intellectual-property stuff like the virtual assistant or a bookkeeper -- that sounds like a great idea. You don't really want to be messing with non-code-related details while coding.

[kirubakaran]

I was suggesting outsourcing non-critical functions first, to get a feel of it.