How the Distributed Model Helps Startups

Written by Veselina Dzhingarova

As the Founder of a Startup you’ve already dealt with several challenges, the cries of “It’s not possible on your own”, the financing issues, and the time to convince your best friend and most respected colleague to join you in this adventure.  Now the next challenge arises, how do you scale up? This is where you call on distributed.co. 

Going from a team of two or three people with a couple of contractors and outsourced services to help you operate as a business while also deliver your product or service is no longer going to cut it now you have a customer base and need to rapidly deliver an advanced and refined product tailored to different customers and different markets.  You can’t attract good employees who have concerns about your long-term viability, and the long and time-consuming hiring process isn’t something you can spend time on right now. This is where the Distributed model comes into it’s own.

What Can Distributed Achieve for a Startup?

First of all Distributed is a people platform.  So, okay, it’s a technology platform which manages a team of outsourced software and data engineers.  But here’s the great thing, you don’t have to go out and find all of the engineers and get them to sign up to use the platform, the engineers are already signed up, checked, validated, contracted to work for Distributed.  So what you have is an on-tap team of experienced engineers who can be added to your project team at any stage, and then removed again once you don’t need them.

Effectively you have an on-demand engineering team that only gets paid when its working for you.  The platform manages the project, and a Distributed Project Manager oversees it to ensure Quality Assurance, and punctual delivery.

Take that in for a minute.  As a startup your development process has suddenly been massively shortened.  You no longer need to do any hiring. You have an on-demand digital delivery and engineering team effectively managed through a technology platform.  Hopefully your startup business is as innovative an idea as Distributed is!

This is all what Distributed calls Elastic Teams.  

Elastic Teams is a structured combination of intelligent systems that ensure that the bets team available is brought together for each of your delivery projects.  The system oversees the project to guarantee it runs very efficiently. And importantly, the team can be scaled up and down as necessary by you to deliver your project on time and on budget.

Engineers on the Distributed platform are experts in technologies such as React, Node.js, PHP, Spark, MYSQL, AWS, Symphony, Jenkins CI, Chrome Engine, Serverless Cloud, Tableau, Google Analytics, .Net Core, React Native, Azure DevOps, ADFS and many more.  No matter what your software engineering project entails, a team will be assembled that has the technical skills and experience to deliver what you need. The platform’s quality assurance and enterprise grade security guarantee peace of mind for you while you leave others to get on with the hard work.