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Millennials In Asia Are Ambitious And Entrepreneurial: VISA Study

YoungUpstarts

Well, unsurprisingly, online social networking is huge with this lot. Weekly Facebook use is incredibly high especially in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia rated 93-percent) as compared to other social networks.

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[Singapore] LinkedIn Hits 1 Million Users In Singapore

YoungUpstarts

Then the online professional networking site had around half a million members – earlier this week the company announced that its membership base has approximately doubled to over a million members, addressing about 70% of the country’s professional labor force and student population. million) and the Philippines (1.5+

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[Event] DEMO Asia: Is Being Female A Handicap?

YoungUpstarts

We this question to three female founders from Indonesia, Philippines and Singapore – it is difficult to start up being a woman? This was similar to what female founders from the Philippines and Singapore experienced. No, all three founders echoed. Aprilia participated in DEMO Asia ‘s Alpha Pitch segment.

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I am a developer, yet I outsource the development of my startup

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

The virtual assistants I hired were "IT recruiters" or "Technical recruiters" from the Philippines. I wanted to find a Filipino developer so I hoped by picking Filipina assistants it would simplify the search because they would use their personal social network.

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5 Tips On How To Outsource Your Blogging

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I thought it would be a great opportunity to share with you some tips from my experience of outsourcing blogging tasks to virtual staff in the Philippines. Say you have a budget to spend $2,400 for a unique blog design, why not consider hiring a part-time graphic designer for $200 a month from the Philippines?

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The One-Week Social Selling Action Plan

Duct Tape Marketing

While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. Best lead generation talent : The Philippines and Eastern Europe. The strategy in a nutshell.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

That company, which now has a client list of more than 200 companies and additional offices in the Philippines and New York, takes on the startup projects that Kayweb Angels selects. Kayweb is named for its majority owner, the design and development firm Kayserian founded in Australia seven years ago.

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