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How to Hire a Remote Software Development Team

ReadWriteStart

Cost-Efficiency : Do you have a limited budget for your projects? Remote teams often offer cost savings compared to in-house teams. More so, you can benefit from competitive pricing based on the region you hire from, which will reduce operational costs. Nigeria : Nigeria is an African country with a fast-growing IT sector.

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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

Real estate costs in tech hubs have skyrocketed. Huge leaps in technology have made seamless communication with remote teams efficient and cost-effective. Global internet bandwidth has exponentially increased while costs have become radically lower. But if you’re hiring from an African country (Nigeria, for example).

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Effects of the Post Brexit UK Immigration Rules on its Economy

The Startup Magazine

The graduate visa in the UK makes it more attractive to non-EU migrants, and we continue to see an influx of students from India, Nigeria, China, and other countries. Paradoxically, the state of the economy, living standards, and the cost of domestic fees to universities make them less attractive to UK and EU students than ever before.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

At the same time, 75% of all university graduates in Kenya and Nigeria are likely to be unemployed for up to 5 years after graduation. Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Not to mention $200,000 in staff time and hard costs. Generously, it might cost you $20,000. In other words, you could test ten book ideas for the cost of publishing one. Hopefully , you''ve also notice d that checking out last year''s talks can be a goo d way to get a sense of what we l ook for.

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[Competition] Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards

YoungUpstarts

Over 500 applications from more than 90 countries were received in last year’s awards, with winning projects that included a mobile data and messaging system that tracks water supply and optimizes its use in India, a low-cost chicken-feed made from waste mango seed in Nigeria, and even water-less toilets in rural Peru or a work-for-education (..)

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Scaling Solutions to Climate Change — A review of John Doerr’s “Speed and Scale”?

Reid Hoffman

This is especially true in developing countries where “green premiums” – the higher cost of choosing, say, an electric car over one with a combustion engine – are substantial.