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Originally Posted by magnusvv
Hey mr_luc, good first post. Any chance you will hook your fellow boardmembers up with some of those course materials?
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http://ocw.mit.edu
They're free. Go to the course list and have a towel nearby.
Thanks everyone. Thanks particularly LivinLOS; I was really, really wondering about connectivity/responsiveness, and it seems that answers one question.
Can someone comment on these rather general perceptions I've picked up:
- it's easier to do business in Thailand if you're a US-based company that doesn't mind hiring predominantly Thais,
- there are some advantages to being a US company in Thailand compared to some other countries (forgot what those were -- property related? damn, really forgot),
- trying to target the Thai market, while not impossible for a foreigner, is probably less profitable than using Thai labor/skilled labor to produce products in thailand and sell them other places.
That last one is something I'm the most interested in. I'm a good enough programmer that I can develop and maintain multiple product lines by myself if I have to, but I'd have to sell my soul to my job. So ideally I would hire some grunt coders and then refactor their output myself.
Not to mention . . . I have a couple of proteges here in the states, friends of my little brothers' who have grown up gamer geeks with me teaching them programming, and they're all good enough now that I couldn't pay them what they're worth -- I think that if I have access to bright people I can turn them into good coders.
As a matter of fact, I'd think sort of instinctively that there's opportunity in Thailand simply because it's not friendly yet to the kind of "national prostitution" that other/surrounding countries have opened up to. But wages in all of those countries are skyrocketing (average India coder is making way more than a few years ago), whereas compared to Singapore and India and others, it looks like Thailand is VERY weak technologically, or at least from a software point of view.
I should probably read a little bit about what's required for an American corp. to do biz in Thailand, but if all that's required is that they hire predominantly thais . . . well . . . wouldn't that sort of be their plan in coming to the country anyway? Why aren't they in Thailand already? Is it just an infrastructure thing?
I'm fascinated.
Sorry for boring you all, I've been up for three days straight working on a project and I'm about to crash.