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Congratulations to Upwork

A Crowded Space

Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks. The correct answer is to closely manage the overall network – promote the good people and kick out the bad people. Upwork had truly life-changing potential.

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Rebuild Lives #Ukraine/ Provide Work Opportunities to Refugees

Transformify

Now, we face the war in Ukraine and the sad reality that millions of Ukrainians may have to leave their homes and seek asylum across Europe. Launched in 2016, Rebuild Lives helps refugees and people living in post-war zones be hired and paid compliantly. Displaced People / Refugees/ People living in a war zone in Ukraine.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. When Koum was young, his poor family emigrated to California from Ukraine. It's steadily risen to the most popular toymaker spot once more.

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I am a developer, yet I outsource the development of my startup

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

That’s right, I prefer writing code than writing words and yet it’s been two months now that I started outsourcing the development of TaskArmy to someone in Ukraine. That’s right, the plan was to hire someone that help me hire a developer. I actually hired two girls for $3/hour each with this ad. Conclusion.

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Is Outsourcing Exploitation?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I can’t even hire ONE Australian full time on that kind of money, let alone an entire team. The basic premise behind the type of outsourcing we are talking about here, is hiring people from other countries where labor is comparatively cheaper than hiring from your local country.

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Are You in a Bubble?

Diego Basch

It’s like asking “are we in Ukraine?” Are you in Ukraine by any chance? ?????? As an aside, this is why I’m more optimistic about niche social networks like LinkedIn: they make a ton of money from their hiring solutions business. no, I’m in the US. Of course, bubbles always exist.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

Still, you need some amount of development experience to do all of this so you still need to hire--or why not just do it yourself? You can outsource your development to India, the Ukraine, Buenas Aires, or even Indiana. Marc Cenedella of TheLadders coded up the first PHP versions of his site, and that was more than five years ago.

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