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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. But customers are not looking yet another homogeneous product or service, so be careful. Marty Zwilling.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. But customers are not looking yet another homogeneous product or service, so be careful. Marty Zwilling.

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How Innovation Can Help Frontier Markets

YoungUpstarts

Frontier markets are developing countries that are still too small to be considered as emerging markets. The frontier market is a term coined by the International Finance Corporation’s Frida Khambata in 1992. Frontier markets are developing countries where it’s risky to invest in, but emerging markets are more stable.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. But customers are not looking for yet another homogeneous product or service, so be careful. Marty Zwilling.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

How big is the market for Muslim-friendly products and services? To tap this burgeoning market, companies should consider working with local partners who possess a more intimate knowledge of each market. Are China and India still the “factory” and “outsourced service provider” of the world?

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Is Remote Work the Future of Employment?

Transformify

Increasing productivity by removing unnecessary noise. By adopting an all-remote policy, companies can avoid all of these costs, and put that money into marketing and hiring high-quality people which makes scaling faster and more effective. Remote Workers are More Productive. Keeping costs low.

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[Interview] Benjamin Yee of EMERGE App

YoungUpstarts

Navigating a rented motorbike through the winding hills of Vietnam and swimming in secret lagoons in Thailand are just some of the things that Benjamin Yee does when he’s not typing furiously away at this laptop. I don’t see myself doing that for 35 years of my productive life. The market is your ultimate boss.