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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

As the global economic situation deteriorates amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and soaring energy costs, many aspiring entrepreneurs might be tempted to give up and wait for better days. Mobile banking in developing countries. But don’t give up! It is true that founding a startup in times of crisis may look more challenging.

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Estimating App Development: What Small Businesses Need To Know?

YoungUpstarts

If we look through the statistics, it’ll show us that mobile phones are gradually becoming more and more popular. In average, price of a mobile app development from scratch will start from $5,000. by Julia Kravchenko, partner and VP of HR at Qubit Labs. Why don’t we make an app?”. Idea vs. real app. So, keep calm and enjoy it!

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

The Next Web

In addition to speaking at IDCEE’13 in Kyiv, Cooper had another goal in visiting Ukraine (and Russia, a couple of days before that). The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine have been sort of anchors for oDesk on the technical side,” Cooper explained.

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[Event] Ukraine, Thailand And US Take Top Spots At Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012

YoungUpstarts

Taking top spot in the Software Design category is quadSquad from Ukraine, winning US$25,000 with its set of custom-designed sensory gloves and a smartphone application called ‘Enable Talk’ that allows the deaf to communicate verbally by translating sign languages into speech. . First Place: quadSquad (Ukraine).

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What in the World ?!?

thebarefootvc

In the past week, Rakuten , a Japanese e-commerce company, bought Viber , a mobile messaging video app, for $900M; and Facebook bought WhatsApp , a mobile messaging app with 450M active monthly users globally (almost entirely outside of the US), for a deal that could be worth $19B after earnouts.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

But their hypothesis that migrants could or would use smartphones was invalidated – their Customer Discovery interviews revealed that many migrants use only basic mobile phones because they fear that more expensive models may be stolen by smugglers.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

But their hypothesis that migrants could or would use smartphones was invalidated – their Customer Discovery interviews revealed that many migrants use only basic mobile phones because they fear that more expensive models may be stolen by smugglers.