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What To Know About Accepting International Payments

YoungUpstarts

However, there are things to consider before you can start selling to people on a global level. For example, how will it compare to receive payments from Nicaragua versus India? We touched on this a bit above, but according to a McKinsey report, the global class of consumers will total 1.8 International Customer Preferences.

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Ellison Eyewear the Multi-Billion $ Sunglass Industry

Hearpreneur

Ellison was easier to pronounce and therefore made the product more accessible to a global audience. To date, our community has built 40 new homes in Nicaragua for families living in slum conditions. The name Ellison is a play on the Greek word for the sun, “Elios”. “Who Who knows about sun better than the Greeks?”

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Multiculturalism: Lorie Valle-Yanez on driving diversity initiatives into business benefits

Transformify

Valle-Yanez believes her diversity training began at birth as a first-generation American, raised in Hawaii – where multiculturalism and inclusion are a way of life – by parents from the Philippines and Nicaragua. Lorie graduated from the University of San Francisco with a B.S. in Organizational Behavior.

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