Has anyone used or considered using virtual assistants (i.e. someone in a lower-cost-of-labor country working as a contractor) instead of or in addition to interns? I know lots of e-commerce sites and real estate brokers/agents use VAs in the Philippines to do customer support, build lead lists, schedule meetings, manage their individual email accounts, etc. Seems like a natural fit to at least augment the squads of interns at search funds.
Would love to hear opinions and/or experiences from anyone who's even just thought about using VAs!
Interns vs. Virtual Assistants
by a searcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management
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Delia Ursulescu's outline above is pretty comprehensive. I'd only add that it saves time, money and "brain damage" to run a task time test and outline for any given task to know exactly how much time a certain task or set of tasks take. This locks in the price/time ratio discussion, and gives the VA the freedom to hustle as much as they like, to get a job done.
More importantly, it buys your time back to manage less.
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