Of course, there are always counterarguments. But it is the fact that you stack the odds against your success when you ship someone else the most critical part of a startup. You can do the same thing with a dev who lies to your face (rather than through a computer screen), but that is a completely different argument.
You've already got the odds stacked against you when you want to do a software-based startup and you're not a good developer yourself (or have a tech co-founder that is).
Once you've decided to go ahead and do it anyway, you've a number of options, and you're not doing yourself any favors by ruling out options the way this article advocates.
>But it is the fact that you stack the odds against your success
Source of this statistics please? it was not my experience that outsourcing isn't working. I can name a lot of successes from small startups to huge telecom giants. One of my companies is another prove that outsourcing works pretty well if done right.
I can also name(but will not) bunch of people with zero experience in sw who hired "professionalz with 10+yrs exp" script-kids for $1/h who promised to deliver ething in 1 week and than blame everyone except themself for failure
In my experience odds are against one one who wants to radically cut costs of sw dev. I you hire experienced good people (in your country or abroad) this is not gonna be that cheaper, but it will work for you if you pick the right partners.
A side note on counterarguments that is useful for marketing: Every logical argument you make has a counter argument, and if you make claims in marketing people will automatically think of the counter. However, if you tell a story, you can give across the same message and not activate that 'counter' reaction.
