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Follow This Six-Point Checklist To Strengthen Employee Onboarding

YoungUpstarts

Studies show that among software engineers in India, new employees sought out more information when they were socialized within the organization. With employee onboarding software available to organizations, companies shouldn’t relegate themselves to archaic, inefficient methods. Go Beyond Introductions with Socializing.

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Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early

SoCal CTO

I used this when I taught software engineering. I used a company in India to develop the site, and it's mostly done. And the person is trying to get it from mostly done to done with little additional cost. The remaining 10%, takes the other 90% of the time. It's currently in beta. Recovery from this situation is hard.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. Most of the costs incurred by Microsoft in developing new versions of Windows involve paying engineers to write software codes. These costs are largely fixed.

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

ReadWriteStart

During today's roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

The human toll a virus could inflict and the immense economic cost of the emergency response stayed with him. As a child living in Hong Kong through SARS, he saw first hand the human toll a virus could inflict, and the immense economic cost of the emergency response. As a child, Alpha Lee lived through the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

—– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. Upekkha works with SaaS founders of Indian origin that use the India advantage for creating capital efficient growth. More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog. Details here.

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TNW Profile: Credictive founder Ela Madej on being ‘a woman in tech’, Rainbows and Unicorns

The Next Web

Both my parents and my sister are software engineers … I actually have female co-founders in my companies – an amazing developer & manager Agata (also included in that Top 100 list) and Socha, an architect-turned-designer. Cost of living and running a company is way higher compared to Berlin or Krakow.