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Consider Emerging Markets for Your Global Expansion

Transformify

Russia's GDP grew exponentially between 1999 and 2008, driven mostly by oil exports as well as a surge in oil prices. India’s vast talent pool is of interest to many international businesses open to hiring remotely overseas. Russia is the seventh largest internal market in the world and the first in Europe.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. Everybody was doing marketing blitzes, over-paying to steal the best staff, pimping out urban offices to the nines , and hiring in a frenzy. Everybody was raising a shit-ton of money.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. If someone hired you, would you have your lawyer look over the NDA? Im Anil Dash, and Ive blogged half a million words here since 1999, writing about how culture is made. dan.sanderson. | May 8, 2010 12:38 PM.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. But the items aren’t real (brands and IP) and don’t exist in the real world – they live in the ether to purely move money around. But when the web 2.0 You wanna dance, you gotta pay the band.