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What Do Diversity Hiring and Work From Home Jobs Have in Common?

Transformify

Many countries have imposed travel bans and an unprecedented country-wide quarantine has been announced in Italy, Spain and Bulgaria. Startup hubs like Berlin, London, New York, Los Angeles, Bangalore, Hong Kong and Singapore offered access to venture capital and vibrant start ecosystems thus attracting the brightest founders.

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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

The eight teams hail from all over the world – including entrants from Montreal, Toronto, Portugal and Bulgaria – and have spent the last three months tirelessly working away on their hardware-based startup ideas for the Internet of Things in preparation for today.

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Deal Hunting On The Move With Shooger

YoungUpstarts

Co-founders Cary, Mishkovsky and Alex Stancioff – they previously started an animation company in Bulgaria – were wrapping up Lil’ Bush for Comedy Central when they realized they had a lot of great technical resources at their disposal. A Sweet Deal. Cary shares that the idea for Shooger came some two years ago.

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Our 7 favorite startups from the Wayra London 2013 demo day

The Next Web

However, rather than simply acting as yet-another TV guide, Tank Top TV, uses its proprietary algorithm to recommend content for individual users, as well as using it to push “good” content to the top of the list, Liz Rice, co-founder of Tank Top TV explained. It also has a map of known defibrillator locations.

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Two years of remote working – hiring, scaling, culture, and the lifestyle trade-off

The Startup Toolkit

The solution to scaling people is “culture”, which is just a way to spread how the founders work and make decisions to the rest of the team. Our founders have a history together, so we already knew how everyone worked and remote was fine. And once it outgrew the founding team, we hit a wall. So hiring is one big reason.

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Disrupting Finance From Above: Wealthfront

abovethecrowd.com

Shouldn’t our access to technology and scale lead to lower rates than say Bulgaria? we immediately thought of Wealthfront , the automated investment service started by Benchmark founder Andy Rachleff. If you look at the graph below, U.S. fees can be as much as 4.5X those in Australia, and are clearly larger than the rest of the world.

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Twitter Link Roundup #111 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Crowdsourcing & Entrepreneurship Advice by crowdSPRING co-Founder @mike_samson- [link]. Crowdsourcing & Entrepreneurship Advice by crowdSPRING co-Founder @mike_samson – [link]. crowdSPRING’s 12 Questions Interview: Meet Svetlana (Sofia, Bulgaria) – [link]. – [link].