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SUSTAINABILITY AND ETHICS IN FASHION TECHNOLOGY — SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Household names like twitter , foursquare , John Mayer , Kid Cudi , James Blunt , Ellie Goulding , and even Amy Winehouse all got their start on the SXSW stage. If you don’t know what SXSW is, take a minute to google it. It is attended by over 400,000 people and is notorious for helping to launch up and coming creatives into the mainstream.

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Transportation, On-Demand And The Asian Economy – Asian Horizons

YoungUpstarts

The on-demand economy may have been spurred by the big names that have frequent mentions in social media or otherwise: Uber, Airbnb and the whole shebang. Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam) We’ve identified some factors that set them apart from other ride-sharing outfits. Hyperlocal Focus.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). This will result in stronger networks of interaction and relationships from employees to suppliers to customers.

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The Women Who Forged Before Us Make Us The Leaders We Are Today

YoungUpstarts

I was born and raised some 8,500 miles away from the bright lights of Time Square, in the Philippines. I was named after my grandmother Salud, a Spanish word that means, “good health.” She had a successful career leading product development at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies.

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How I Test The Market Validity Of A Product

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

My name is Leevi Romanik and I used to be a health care professional. We can talk about sipping Pina Coladas by the pool all day, how to outsource our whole life to the Philippines, the latest SEO strategy and next best WordPress plugin, but that is all useless if you do not even have the beginnings of a money making system.

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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

There are two key points during the life of your startup where your life will be much easier if you use a virtual assistant (VA): While proving out your product/market. After your product launch. Point #1: Developing a Proof of Concept. I've had the best results hiring VA's in the Philippines. Let's look at each one.

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Remote Jobs: The Fair Pay Rate Dilemma

Transformify

Mr. X will retain USD 10 000 for the service and uses the remaining USD 80 000 to buy product development advisory services from company ‘Zero’’ owned by the grandmother of the founders. Here’s what investors will see if no round-tripping is involved: USD 60 000 asset (partially developed e-commerce platform).