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SUSTAINABILITY AND ETHICS IN FASHION TECHNOLOGY — SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

THE SPEAKERS MELANIE DISALVO Melanie DiSalvo began her fashion career in product development after graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Textile Development and Marketing program. As written in the Huffington Post, it took around 7 years to develop, what is now Pinatex.

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What Do Diversity Hiring and Work From Home Jobs Have in Common?

Transformify

Instead of paying ridiculously high rent in San Francisco or London, startups and small businesses can spend on product development and marketing, thus tremendously increasing the chances of successful market entry and expansion. Work from home and remote work also significantly cut office costs.

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Transportation, On-Demand And The Asian Economy – Asian Horizons

YoungUpstarts

Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam) We’ve identified some factors that set them apart from other ride-sharing outfits. In these developing countries, smartphones are acquiring a holy-grail status in the job market, so this is immensely favorable. Hyperlocal Focus. Co-operation and Synergy.

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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). New vistas of opportunities would also be developed as Cloud technologies change the way businesses operate.

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The Women Who Forged Before Us Make Us The Leaders We Are Today

YoungUpstarts

I was born and raised some 8,500 miles away from the bright lights of Time Square, in the Philippines. She had a successful career leading product development at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies. Good health seems to have been her only advantage in life.

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How I Test The Market Validity Of A Product

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

We can talk about sipping Pina Coladas by the pool all day, how to outsource our whole life to the Philippines, the latest SEO strategy and next best WordPress plugin, but that is all useless if you do not even have the beginnings of a money making system. Constantly surveying, testing and tweaking everything before they launch a new product.

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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Rob Walling generously allowed me to reprint this excerpt from his new book, "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup" available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon and in PDF and ePub from StartupBook.net. As a developer, the features we dropped seem like a necessity from day 1. So we tossed it.