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UGC Strategies to Boost Your Brand

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Users can share UGC / UCC via social media platforms, forums, comments, reviews, and open-source sites like Wikipedia. Finding her true passion, she devoted 15 years in NGO and community development work, where she experienced being a coordinator and teacher, travelling both in the Philippines and countries in Asia.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. Accelerators, hubs, cafes, open-sourcing, crowd-souring, maker spaces, Chief Innovation Officers, etc. That approach doesn’t work anymore.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

That company, which now has a client list of more than 200 companies and additional offices in the Philippines and New York, takes on the startup projects that Kayweb Angels selects. Kayweb is named for its majority owner, the design and development firm Kayserian founded in Australia seven years ago.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

A brief entry further down the page from the open source, pseudonymous online journal Zero Hedge (tagline: “On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero”) points out that of the tech companies that went public in often wildly lucrative IPOs in 2013, 73 percent have never turned a profit, compared to 27 percent in 1999.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

We run a company in Philippines that helps people hire developers at reasonable prices. For example, if you want a freelance site like elance.com, there are open source projects that mimic 99% of the functionality of that site. Also, there are more options for outsourcing than just the major freelance websites listed above.