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Netcipia® is a WEB 2.0 startup that specializes in participative Web technologies (www.netcipia.com).
The two co- founders have been working together in the field of online collaboration for over a decade. During that time, they have gathered the feedback of hundreds of thousands of users worldwide and acquired a unique expertise and vision. The Netcipia participative platform is built upon this expertise and vision.
In addition, Netcipia’s CTO Miguel Membrado had previous offshore experience and therefore knew about the dos and doesn’t of offshoring; so when he approached us, he had a clear plan on how to allocate the money he raised from angel investors.
First, Netcipia was looking for a partner willing to share their financial risks. In fact, during the fund raising process, Netcipia committed to their investors to bring their product to a given level for a given price. So we, as an outsourcing supplier had to endorse this commitment.
That’s about sharing financial risk.
Their technical requirements to Venus were to provide with:
- Developers expert in J2EE, open source solutions, and Agile (SCRUM) methodology
- With existing knowledge on WEB 2.0 platforms since Netcipia was to be built on an open-source wiki solution
- Flexible enough to cope with fast evolving specifications
- Capable of interfacing with a software analyst and a GUI design team located in the USA.
Venus benefited from Miguel’s expertise in advanced collaboration tools. A solution based on wikis and blogs was implemented to optimize the ongoing communications between the parties, located in Palo Alto and Shanghai.
Venus assigned to this project a team of 5 senior developers and an administrator working under the supervision of a senior project manager.
Netcipia successfully went live early March 2008.
Venus is now working on the next version of Netcipia, which will provide a tighter integration with some popular WEB 2.0 platforms.
With engineering expenses under full control, the Netcipia management team can focus his efforts on expanding Netcipia’s business, en route toward becoming a global leader of monetization platforms.
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China is a huge market and they made a right choice.
Left by Felex Tan on April 22nd, 2008