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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Outsourcing is spreading at a frantic pace today with a global footprint and players like oDesk and eLance have made it very easy for companies to connect with outsourcing vendors. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

Congratulations, class of 2020. In 2020, entering the real world means staying at home, sheltering in place. Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. So what’s the YouTube or the Facebook of 2020? Instagram Influencer.

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7 Best Features of Workforce Management System for Business Owners Focused on Remote Work

Transformify

In a study by Global Workplace Analytics , 82% of employees reveal they want to continue working from home even after the COVID-19 pandemic. By leveraging remote workforce management software, you can digitize and streamline various processes to monitor and improve your employees’ productivity. billion in 2020.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.

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Top Platforms for Freelancing Newbies

Transformify

Experts also predict that freelancers will comprise around half of the global workforce in the coming years. trillion in 2020 alone. CrewScale is famous for being an end-to-end talent acquisition hub, connecting startups and enterprises with a global pool of freelance tech talents. That’s where freelancing comes in.

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Pandemic, Boom, War, Correction. So Now What for Tech?

View from Seed

Globalization goes in reverse. Globalization is going in reverse for the first time in 3 decades. At a company level, global supply chains made it possible to source and build products faster and cheaper with a “just in time” model. But the tide of globalization is starting to ebb.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Eugene Sepulveda (@EugeneAustin) | Twitter Ingrid Vandervelt CEO & Founder EBW2020 Ingrid Vanderveldt is the Chairman and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 (EBW2020). Women engineers make up only 14% of software engineers; she is dedicated to getting more women into the tech industry.