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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

Both Sides of the Table

Many years ago I worked at Andersen Consulting, originally developing software for large corporations and then as a strategy consultant. I hired a guy, Azhar Khan, who was raised in the Indian subcontinent (Pakistan, actually) but educated and worked his whole life in the US. He also gave me the option of Pakistan.

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[INTERVIEW] North Aware Founder And Creator Of The Smart Parka, Jamil Khan

YoungUpstarts

That’s what former software engineer Jamil Khan has done with his new company, North Aware , in manufacturing its Smart Parka. 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. Trust a techie to reinvent how we do winter.

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Workplace Flexibility Boosts Remote Teams’ Loyalty

Transformify

Chris, many software companies work on a project basis. The first was a shakeup in our software engineering team, which was originally based out of New York City. We found an extreme talent in Adeel Ahmad who worked between Lahore, Pakistan and Chicago, Illinois at the time. Our guest today is Chris Lacinak, President of AVP.

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

The Next Web

The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine. Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia. In addition to speaking at IDCEE’13 in Kyiv, Cooper had another goal in visiting Ukraine (and Russia, a couple of days before that).

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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. I am also planning to create a channel on YouTube about Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and other software training in Urdu. Today we feature Jahanzeb, who goes by the username jhharoon. He has worked on crowdspring for over seven years.

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How Virtual Assistants Are Reshaping The Business Landscape

Duct Tape Marketing

And so I got virtual assistance and I started out in India and then I was in Pakistan and in Sri Lanka and Vietnam and all over the place. (07:50): We were using multiple softwares to fulfill a service. It was never a thought to then go sell it to people who weren't our clients and just have people use the software.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

Asghar says: Military action in Abbottabad (Pakistan) was nothing but a drama entailing conspiracy just like the conspiracy of 9/11 to wage a crusade war against the Muslim world in the guise of self-designed War on Terror. We had evidence on Bush and people chose to ignore it’ icyeh says: Yes.