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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. His concept captured the imagination of enough people that North Aware’s Kickstarter campaign raised an astonishing $2.6 They were expensive for starters.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

The main prize of oDesk’s competition is a trip to the Silicon Valley with guided tours to the offices of major Internet companies, including Facebook, PayPal, Autodesk, and others. Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia. Have laptop – will freelance.

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

The bank lends to groups of women, with each receiving $50 to $100 to buy rickshaws for transporting wheat to market or to help them open Internet kiosks. Parveen Baji, Pakistan. All it took to turn Parveen Baji’s life around was a $70 loan from the Kashf Foundation.

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From Israel to Pakistan, Community is Key When Building a Startup (Google I/O)

VC Cafe

The panel included Erik Hersman (Kenya ,founder of iHub), Eden Shochat (Israel, founder of Face.com, VC at Genesis, founder of The Junction), Jon Bradford (UK/Ireland, founder of Springboard), Jeffery Paine (Singapore, Golden Gate Ventures) and Jehan Ara (Pakistan). Jeff – we look at mobile, consumer Internet, games and SaaS.

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12 Questions with Self-Taught Designer and crowdspring Creative jhharoon

crowdSPRING Blog

Jahanzeb is a self-taught designer (and self-proclaimed handyman) from Pakistan. Instead, I worked as a computer technician and in my free hours, I spent time on the internet looking for new opportunities. Today we feature Jahanzeb, who goes by the username jhharoon. He has worked on crowdspring for over seven years.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

I used to simply send emails over the internet, like everyone else, but this is so much more fun–except when one of my emails hit a colleague in the eye! We are generating employment for countries such as the United States, Philippines, Canada, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Ghana and Nepal.

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What Asia and Facebook’s Free Internet Project Have in Common?

Transformify

May Mark Zuckerberg’s free Internet project help more on the long run than the one –off donations? " Zero rating means that accessing some websites and apps doesn't eat into an internet subscriber's data allotment. Source: Aljazeera). Women represent two-thirds of all illiterate adults globally.

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