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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

Hearpreneur

Different entrepreneurs take on diverse approaches to implement innovative ideas in their businesses and some emerge to be successful. This gains them recognition as innovative entrepreneurs and inspires others to be innovative as well. The entrepreneur that best represents disruption is Netflix’s Reed Hastings. 2- Elon Musk.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

As the global economic situation deteriorates amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and soaring energy costs, many aspiring entrepreneurs might be tempted to give up and wait for better days. Entrepreneurs — frugal innovation can be a powerful tool for growth. But don’t give up!

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

The Next Web

Most of clients are “startups, small businesses, and solo entrepreneurs who are building their business on or around oDesk,” Cooper said. In addition to speaking at IDCEE’13 in Kyiv, Cooper had another goal in visiting Ukraine (and Russia, a couple of days before that). Top image credit: kazoka / Shutterstock.

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From the Ukraine with Love

Growthink Blog

Vladimir Lempert CEO and founder of Spetztekhosnastka, or “STO”, a plastics design and manufacturing company headquartered in Dniprodzerzhins'k (about 200 miles Southeast of Kiev), in the Ukraine. Or one in Shanghai. Or Lagos or Monterrey. Or Prague or Peoria.

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21 Entrepreneurs Share How They’re Incorporating Corporate Service Responsibility (CSR) In Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

We asked entrepreneurs how they're incorporating CSR into their businesses and here's what they had to say; #1- Sponsoring charitable initiatives Photo Credit: Andrei Vasilescu I have always been passionate about incorporating CSR into my business. For example, in April of 2022, we donated 10 tonnes of aid to Ukraine.

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How I hired a great web developer on oDesk for $12/hr

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

It took me another 4 hours to improve the design a bit and package the files into a Google Play app. I ended up hiring someone from Ukraine because he could work full time on weekplan but both were really good. Seriously, if you are an online entrepreneur, do yourself a favour and start outsourcing. The result. That’s $72.

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The Next Web introduces 12 local Startup Awards to celebrate entrepreneurship across Europe

The Next Web

As you may have heard, we have also partnered with the European Commission to launch a prestigious event called Europioneers to identify and award Europe’s finest technology entrepreneurs. Says Patrick de Laive, co-founder of The Next Web: “Europe needs real entrepreneurs to put itself back on the map again.

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