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Is America’s Corporate Culture In The Dark Ages?

YoungUpstarts

I was a founder and former CEO of Mustang Engineering, and from 2005 through 2014, Mustang opened several international offices. Within the next few years, Mustang added offices in Melbourne and Perth, Australia; Mumbai, India; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bogota, Colombia; Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia; and Norway.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. Your India strategy? • In the U.S. IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). billion) in 2005. billion) in 2005. 1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc.

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[Singapore] Shopify Partners SingTel To Grow Presence In Singapore

YoungUpstarts

It also works as a fully featured mobile application, and retailers can manage their shop on the go through the mobile app. “As opposed to North America, countries here like Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and India need a bit of hand-holding when it comes to starting an online store, so having a partner here on the ground is important.”

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The 5 Biggest Outsourcing Blunders

Growthink Blog

This is true up to an extent of course; because if you micro-manage (or manage too aggressively) it will take up too much of your time and often aggravate the contractor. I hired an outsourced tech person on August 16, 2005. And even though he now has a full-time job (he''s in India), he still helps me on the side a lot.

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Epic Waste

SVPG

I started writing about this as far back as 2005 (see Startup Product Management ), and this concept is at the core of the Lean Startup movement. They cite the loaded cost of an outsourced engineer in India or China and point out that it’s a fraction of what that engineer would cost locally.

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The Digital Workplace: From An Impressive Trend To An Imperative Strategy

YoungUpstarts

In the United States alone, the number of remote workers increased 115% in the decade spanning 2005 to 2015, and the trend shows no sign of slowing. If you’re a manager who was unexpectedly thrown into remote work along with the rest of your team, you may be anxious to get back to business as usual as soon as possible.