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Remote Jobs: The Fair Pay Rate Dilemma

Transformify

IT team members working on the core product, sales and customer support, marketing, etc. Speaking of non-compliance, there 2 common cases: Paying Below the Local Market Rate. Some of them invest money and effort to familiarize themselves with the median market salary and the best practices locally. Slave Labor.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. And they’ve absorbed and analyzed incredible amounts of information about their topic of concern.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. And they’ve absorbed and analyzed incredible amounts of information about their topic of concern.

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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If you monetize it at $50/hour and you can pay a VA $6/hour to handle administrative tasks, this frees up time for you to create real value in your business by developing new features or expanding marketing efforts. Customers make it necessary to put processes in place for marketing, sales, support, and back-end admin tasks.

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

The benefits of microfinance have been debated since the ’70s when the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh began making tiny loans to impoverished small business owners. The bank lends to groups of women, with each receiving $50 to $100 to buy rickshaws for transporting wheat to market or to help them open Internet kiosks.

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4 Entrepreneurs Explain What Being USA Made Means to Them [Sponsored Post]

Hearpreneur

Share Communities are everywhere. They are interest based, community based, location based and even social-economically grounded. Either way, we at CEO Blog Nation tried to highlight the different communities within the entrepreneur and business owner world. Placing Value in our Neighborhoods, Friends, Family & Communities.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

So really it is not just the English-speaking, but since you're talking about addressable market, I had a thought about it. And really the addressable market is not just the people, English-speaking, connected to internet, but rather I would say whoever is willing to spend half an hour reading an article about the coronavirus.