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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

The key here is to transfer foreign management expertise and technologies to China while tapping on its huge domestic entertainment market. Beneficiaries include ASEAN mainland cities like Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Fortunately, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

With a strong interest in entrepreneurship and technology, he subsequently joined a technology start up project at Orbis Investment Management Ltd, an asset management firm with over USD $25 billion under management.

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Tired Of Your Job? Do Something Different With Escape The City

YoungUpstarts

Past “escapes” included managing a beach lodge in Mozambique, trekking across the Gobi desert, running a post office in Antarctica, or even clearing land mines in Cambodia. More fun that watching icons on your computer screens squiggle, for sure.

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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

crowdSPRING Blog

Most of our posts on the crowdSPRING Blog focus on managing businesses and startups; we often write about best practices, and offer plenty of practical tips for managers. She is as knowledgable about our business and our community as anyone and she does her job with as much grace and good humor as I have seen in 30 years in management.

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Accelerator Spotlight: Influencer Direct

View from Seed

Automating their end-to-end eCommerce operations (from managing inventory to order fulfillment to customer service). I grew up in Houston, TX and come from humble beginnings; my mom was a single parent and refugee from Cambodia. Creating storefronts for influencers that also connect to their social commerce platforms (e.g.

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My Water Pilgrimage:

Austin Startup

Left: Mahesh, Program Manager. Almost half of its working-age population are unemployed, and the latest United Nations Human Development Index ranks Nepal at #144 out of 188 countries, coming in behind Cambodia (#143), Zambia (#139), and Iraq (#121). I packed some Imodium and a sleeping bag, and I was on my way to Kathmandu.

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How to Find Hundreds of Business Ideas

Up and Running

At Palo Alto Software, we use our own product – LivePlan – to manage and keep track of key business metrics. Like something you might stumble across in Cambodia, perhaps? Even if you work for someone else, try to get into the habit of finding the pain points. It’s a gigantic resort modeled off the ruins of a real lost city.