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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. Having advanced that curve on the Smart Parka’s design and the Kickstarter funding to help North Aware move to the manufacturing phase, he’s now learning about other issues critical to entrepreneurs.

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

YoungUpstarts

Clients in Singapore hired most freelancers from India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom and Philippines. Most popular skills in demand by Singapore-based businesses were PHP, graphic design, creative writing, as well as HTML, in the first quarter of 2013. Freelance work driving startup growth in Singapore.

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12 Top Picks: Austin Startup Week on Oct 12

Austin Startup

Building Your Business on Open Source Data 10:00 am at Galvanize Featuring Data.world co-founder and CTO Bryon Jacob, this panel will explore the increasingly important role of open source data science in the startup economy. The Pakistan Entrepreneur Scene 11:00 am at Capital Factory Yes, the start up scene is sizzling in Pakistan too!

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October 9–13: Austin Startup Week!

Austin Startup

October 11), The Role of Transit in an Autonomous World (October 11), Fireside Chat with Bob Metcalfe (October 11), How to Pitch a VC (October 12), The Pakistan Entrepreneur Scene (October 12), Promoting Austin as Part of a Global Tech Ecosystem (October 12), and the ATX Startup Crawl (October 12).

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The long road to bringing an idea to life: MySizeFinder Case Study

Life Beyond Code

So Sunil (founder and president ) of Mokriya helped us find a free agent called Shahaan in Pakistan. Reviewing and approving website designs. Kavitha took it up on herself to get the right sizing charts. But that started dragging the project along. It was not helping. What should be there in the “How it Works&# section.

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5 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From the Navy SEALs

Seeing Both Sides

Will was kind enough to introduce me to a SEAL classmate of his, Brendan Rogers (SEAL 1990-2000), who joined me and 20 NYC CEOs/founders from the tech scene last night to talk about the SEALs - the training, the planning and the operations behind their combat operations - as well as draw out some relevant lessons for entrepreneurs.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. raked in five-figure daily signups after announcing its upcoming launch, according to the site’s founders. Have an account? In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch.