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Silicon Valley start-ups’ cubicles thousands of miles apart. India is a Major Player in a Growing Trend

Call it the global garage.

There’s a new breed of start-up in Silicon Valley: the mini-multinational, launched from the get-go as a global business. The upstarts, often in tech, set up headquarters in Silicon Valley to take advantage of funding, ideas, management and the prestige. But they have major operations in places like Bangalore or Shanghai, China, giving them access to overseas markets, a cheaper but increasingly innovative pool of talent and ever-faster product development by a round-the-clock workforce.

Take NetDevices, a networking technology start-up founded in 2003. Its headquarters is in Sunnyvale, but two-thirds of its 150 employees, including most of its engineers, are in India.

Communication among NetDevices colleagues, more complicated than mere cubicle chatter, is carefully choreographed to avoid work-flow hiccups that can cause days of delay. There is the critical nightly handoff of software code-in-progress to engineers across the Pacific Ocean. Quick cell phone conversations at all hours. Weekend e-mail exchanges.

“You have to bring order out of chaos,” joked Ramesh Maganti, general manager of NetDevices, with offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad.

By John Boudreau
Mercury News

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