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Dominican Central Bank Reports 29% Growth In Remittances

YoungUpstarts

annually since 1993. million between 1993 and 2020. The crisis also had a negative outcome for remittance sending costs. Operational challenges faced by remittance service providers led to an increase in the cost of transferring remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean. Before COVID-19.

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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

In 1993, it was during one of these long walks that he’d stumble on a philosophy that would determine his life’s path – that he’d do whatever it takes to succeed in life. Mawuna Koutonin is the founder of London-based GoodBuzz , and his story is the stuff of dreams.

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

In a recent blog post , he argues that it’s not just costs that are at historic lows. ” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases. No Problem!

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8 Tips For Getting Your Product Into Retail Stores

Up and Running

My experience with channels started in 1993 and has been almost entirely in stores and chains selling packaged computer software, but I’ve talked to a lot of people dealing in other kinds of channels, and their experiences seem to be quite the same as my own. You—not they—are going to eat the costs of unsold goods.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

Marc released Mosaic in 1993. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Costs – e.g. how many of the licenses that were purchased for the various cloud applications are being used as anticipated? What’s the ROI?

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Bad Boys and the Fab Five: Business Lessons from Basketball History

Up and Running

It wasn’t until they added Dennis Rodman, Joe Dumars, John Salley, and Rick Mahorn that the team took on a more aggressive style of play, a “win-at-all-costs” attitude, and acquired the “Bad Boys” moniker. “The Fab Five”—The 1993 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. On April 5, 1993 the two teams went head to head.

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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

Not a giant outsourcer playing the cost arbitrage game. All the way from 1993 to 2000. Infosys would now be a technology solutions provider. But, as it turned out, the pivot didn’t work. But this was a time-consuming job not meant for their internal IT departments. Enter outsourcing. Enter India. Image via JES AZNAR/AFP/Getty Images.

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