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[INTERVIEW] North Aware Founder And Creator Of The Smart Parka, Jamil Khan

YoungUpstarts

Khan came up with the Smart Parka concept after enjoying five Canadian winters in the years since he moved to Toronto from his native Pakistan. One of the opportunities that comes with that kind of demand is meeting it in a way that aligns with the company mission. They were expensive for starters.

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[Singapore] Remote, Freelance, Online Work Taking Off Here

YoungUpstarts

If the numbers in the study are anything to go by, the demand for and the supply of online talent – buoyed by corresponding trends like cloudworking (or the “human cloud” if you will) – have been surging across Asia, signalling an increasing preference for more casual, freelance work.

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How Virtual Assistants Are Reshaping The Business Landscape

Duct Tape Marketing

And so I got virtual assistance and I started out in India and then I was in Pakistan and in Sri Lanka and Vietnam and all over the place. (07:50): 19:41): It's projects on demand, but it's also a pod of team members. And that was that I sold an ingestible product and he said not to. But other than that, I did everything by the book.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Being an entrepreneur demands you to learn so many different aspects of businesses – from strategy, sales, marketing, and service – and each is a universe unto their own that entrepreneurs must embrace and master. To me personally, being the founder of an online business, distribution will never be a problem.