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Should I hire my own team or an agency for my MVP?

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This comes from a respected agency, which makes its honesty useful: it lays out when an outside team genuinely helps and when you are better off building your own. It walks through the tradeoffs of speed, cost, and control without pretending an agency is always the answer. A grounded starting point for weighing the actual decision in front of you.

  • An outside team buys speed and breadth, your own team buys ownership
  • Match the choice to your stage, budget, and how central software is
  • Even a good agency should be framed as a bridge, not a permanent home

The question it answers

  1. Should I hire an agency or a freelancer to build my MVP?

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