Last year I interviewed three-time software founder Matt Watson on this podcast about his successful practical founder journeys. Matt leveraged offshore software development talent in his last two SaaS companies to staff up quickly and grow efficiently.

His top developers and designers were offshore in the Philippines, but they weren’t one-off contractors or difficult-to-manage outsourced agencies. He found an endless supply of top tech talent who became savvy members of his team, working hard every day to get things done fast.

So, for his fourth venture, Matt created Full Scale, one of the fastest-growing software development companies in any region. Full Scale vets, employs, and supports over 300 professional developers, designers, and testers in the Philippines who augment and extend your core dev team.

In this expert session with a Practical Founders Podcast sponsor, Matt shares what works and doesn’t work for practical SaaS founders who want to offshore some or all of their software development.

Quote from Matt Watson, CEO of Full Scale

“Offshoring development with staff augmentation is when you have a local resource that helps you run the product, and then you’ve got a lot of help offshore that helps execute on all of it. You can offshore all of it, but the perfect world is having your product and technical leadership in house and then having a whole bunch of people around the world that help make it happen.

“Like my first software company where I was the CTO. We had software development, team leads and architects, and all this stuff. We just needed more people to get it all done. That’s where adding offshore resources works really, really well. That’s why we focus on staff augmentation with senior dev talent for SaaS companies at Full Scale.”

Links

• Matt Watson on LinkedIn
• Full Scale on LinkedIn
• Full Scale website
• Startup Hustle podcast
• Product Driven video channel