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30 Compelling Reasons to Start a Business

Up and Running

You can hire or fire people based on your own guidelines and work only with people who are a good personality fit,” he says. The business, which introduces cultures to kids through books and other products, is run from Tainan, Taiwan. “If You have complete control over not only employees and vendors, but most importantly, clients.

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Don’t Pay Bribes to Get International Expansion

Startup Professionals Musings

In a very recent international bribery case, Alcatel-Lucent decided to pay $137 million to settle charges that it paid millions of dollars in bribes to foreign officials to win and maintain contracts in Costa Rica, Hondurus, Taiwan and Malaysia. The days of a “slap on the wrist” for offenders are gone.

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Why Meeting Face-to-face Will Never Go out of Style

Up and Running

When MeCam set up manufacturing operations in Taiwan, CEO Drew Martin had never been there and had never met the people in charge of the operation face-to-face. During the hiring process, deciding to not interview candidates face-to-face could mean missing out on getting a sense of their emotional intelligence. Here’s How to Fix It.

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Lessons from my Dad

Rob Go

He also hired and kept the same assistant for the past 30 years, and she literally has never had another job her entire career. One of my Dad’s closest friends through the years was a man in Taiwan that he met when he travelled there for an international basketball meet when he was in middle school.

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[Interview] Pekka Viljakainen, Author of “No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age” (Part II)

YoungUpstarts

Let’s talk about globalization – recently in Singapore there were some push-back against globalization with recent reports on big companies here hiring top talent from overseas instead of using and local talent. The cheapest way to get that knowledge is to hire those people into your company.

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The impact of Covid-19 on Livestreaming adoption

VC Cafe

Professional content – Webinars and more webinars how to deal with the impact of Covid-19 on (fundraising/ hiring/ sales/ marketing/ pick your word) seems to be a popular topic we can’t get enough of, but there are plenty of chats offered on a variety of topics on a daily basis. Patreon has seen a surge in registrations.

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Twitter Link Roundup #262 – MegaResources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

How to Hire the A-team crowdspring.co/1EI6Kst. Colorful Taiwan mural inspires town-wide art transformation | DesignFaves crowdspring.co/1CdTZUF. Simple Ways You Can Build Self-Confidence and Succeed crowdspring.co/1BCejyo. GigaOm is Shutting Down crowdspring.co/1Ec7mRS. So, You’re an Industry Expert Now? crowdspring.co/1MyM4nV.