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

The Next Web

“For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine.

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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

Transformify Recruitment CRM and Generate FS have joined forces to help employers hire top talent worldwide. Once the right candidates are selected, the employers can benefit from the ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ or the ‘’Umbrella’’ solutions. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution.

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Consider Emerging Markets for Your Global Expansion

Transformify

Globalization is the most significant challenge facing multinational firms today, especially in the emerging markets of Russia, Brazil, China, and Mexico. Russia is another emerging economy where businesses can attract investors and sell products and services at scale. The Bottom Line.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

As our group sweltered in the July heat on the outskirts of Cairo , each of these purported minions of the state — none of whom wore a uniform or badge — in turn blocked our entry, determined to exercise the modest amount of authority bestowed on him by demanding that my host surrender his digital SLR camera.

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Five Questions With Adam Davidson (New Yorker Journalist, Planet Money Cofounder & Generally Smart Person)

Hunter Walker

I feel confident that money was his motivation in running for President and in doing whatever it is he did with Russia. I feel confident that money was his [Trump] motivation in running for President and in doing whatever it is he did with Russia.

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How We Grew Our Fashion Accessories Business To Over A Million Dollars In Sales

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

One of our top goals was always to have a New York showroom, especially one who had established relationships with the top accounts from Europe, the Middle East and Russia. Secondly, as we were growing our business domestically, we then went after high profile and large stores when we felt we could handle their production demands.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

It's never selfish to hire. My grandparents were forced from Russia. I said, "Hire people. Hire them to do whatever you can find them to do." So anything you can do to keep them hired, you just improved their sanity. It's never selfish to hire. Wars have been fought. It's either leave or die.

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