Yesterday, I talked a bit about my personal experience that led me to founding CDR External Development. But of course, I failed to mention - what is CDR?
As is customary for startups, let’s start with the problem:
If your business is inexperienced with outsourcing or codevelopment, and isn’t fully prepared to take on the challenges of operating external resources, the reality is that any cost savings you are baking into your budget today are unlikely to fully materialize.
Worse, the effects of external development decisions tend to scale with the growth of your company. Unaddressed problems or strategic miscalculations that seem like small annoyances can blossom into massive issues down the road.
Breakdowns can come in many different forms and phases of the production process - topics we’ll visit later in this series. But for now, it’s important to recognize that the minefield of problems is much, much larger than whether or not you’ve chosen the right vendor.
Ok that’s scary…how does CDR solve this problem?
By serving as your company’s in-house external development experts, aligning our incentives with your businesses’ best interests
We are not only great matchmakers. The requirements of effective exdev is too demanding at every step of the process to simply sell in a service provider and walk away.
We work alongside you from start to finish - ensuring that partnerships are set up correctly in the beginning and followed through in the end. In doing so, we permanently level up our clients capabilities: implementing durable processes, developing reusable materials, and establishing dependable partnerships.
Our commitment to the industry is that we will always remain neutral - which means no vendor royalties or kickbacks. This ensures our guidance remains objective, and that we will continue working hard to grow successful partnerships after any deals get signed.
We strive to be a benefit to all parties in every relationship, delivering win after win that builds trust and confidence on both sides.
