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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

Both Sides of the Table

Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. I hired a guy, Azhar Khan, who was raised in the Indian subcontinent (Pakistan, actually) but educated and worked his whole life in the US.

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The Importance of Teams and Why the Best Leaders Cultivate Them

Both Sides of the Table

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. I call this process “ triangulation ” and highlighted it that blog post I wrote on the topic.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia. Interestingly enough, Russian users of two other major online work marketplaces – Elance and Freelancer - reported earlier that those also were active in engaging with Eastern tech professionals lately.

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Exploring The Everyday: Better Meat For a Better Future

View from Seed

I served in Pakistan and Australia. Creating meat in this way was something that we had talked about as an idea, and wondered whether it could be a scalable technology and economically viable if it found consumer acceptance. Our dream to create better meat in this way led us to start Wild Type.

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Crowdsourcing The Indian Rupee Symbol

crowdSPRING Blog

India wanted to differentiate its currency from neighboring Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka – all of these countries used the abbreviation “Rs&#. As you’ve read on our blog, the U.S. Udaya Kumar, a post-graduate student submitted the winning design. What do you think about the new Indian rupee symbol?

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Crowdsourcing The Indian Rupee Symbol

crowdSPRING Blog

India wanted to differentiate its currency from neighboring Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka – all of these countries used the abbreviation “Rs&#. As you’ve read on our blog, the U.S. Udaya Kumar, a post-graduate student submitted the winning design. What do you think about the new Indian rupee symbol?

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12 Questions with Self-Taught Designer and crowdspring Creative jhharoon

crowdSPRING Blog

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdspring creative community of 210,000+ designers & writers from 200 countries. Jahanzeb is a self-taught designer (and self-proclaimed handyman) from Pakistan. Today we feature Jahanzeb, who goes by the username jhharoon.

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