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[Singapore] Tribehired.com Lands Investment; Plans Team Expansion

YoungUpstarts

Instead of relying on usual “submit a resume for different positions and wait for an interview call-up” way to land a dream job, a job seeker can instead tap on existing communities such as online social networks and respected thought leaders in their industries to recommend the right roles for them.

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[Singapore][Infographic] Talent Not As Passive As We Think: LinkedIn

YoungUpstarts

In fact, while some 73-percent of Singaporean professionals consider themselves “passive talent” – those who are already employed and may not be actively seeking a new job – around six out of seven of those are actually approachable, according to internal data from professional social network LinkedIn.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Indigo Room Featured Speaker: Whitney Wolfe Herd As Founder and CEO of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd helms one of the fastest-growing social networks in the world. Room 211–212 Sunday, March 11 Social Airbag with Spredfast CEO Rod Favaron Social networks were under fire in 2017 following foreign interference of the 2016 US election.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. In 2011, Yale launched Yale-NUS, a sister university based in Singapore.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). They are using Singapore as their model of economic development.

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VC Victor Hwang: How To Create The Next Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

Q: What role can, or should, government play in helping create the next Silicon Valley? Even if you remove legal barriers between people and allow them to interact, they are still separated by distances caused by geography, lack of trust, inefficient social networks and differences in culture and language.

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E&Y Journey: Interview with High-Tech Legend Dick Kramlich, by Yoram Tietz

VC Cafe

It is somewhat modeled to Singapore. The leadership looked to Singapore to see if China could scale their model. The Chinese government has invented a new form of social democracy. Social networking has so much potential to change the world, so we are just scratching the surface there.

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