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5 Terrible Social Media Fails in 2016 That You Must Avoid

Brandanew

Coca Cola traps itself between Russia and Ukraine Politics. This resulted in the Ukraine embassy showing its concern for the illegally occupied Crimea region by Russia. David Bowie – a tragic event to increase sales disguised as Tribute. To honor the music legend, brands constructed ways to promote their sales.

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What in the World ?!?

thebarefootvc

Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp’s founders, immigrated to the US from Communist Ukraine as a teenager. This is also the first year that smartphone sales overtook feature phone sales globally – driven by sales in India. He worked at Yahoo, where he met his co-founder.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Before Jobs returned to the business in 1997, its sales, and popularity all steadily declined for 12 years, nearly driving it into bankruptcy. Thanks to notably Erin LaCkore, LaCkore Couture ! #8-

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Rebuild Lives #Ukraine/ Provide Work Opportunities to Refugees

Transformify

Now, we face the war in Ukraine and the sad reality that millions of Ukrainians may have to leave their homes and seek asylum across Europe. Now, Rebuild Lives is helping displaced Ukrainians register an Individual Entrepreneur status in Ukraine remotely, get a freelance job and be paid compliantly. I am a displaced Ukrainian citizen.

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Congratulations to Upwork

A Crowded Space

My first role was in sales and the buyers on the platform absolutely loved the access to global freelancers, the low hourly rates, and the full transparency and flexibility in the system. Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks.

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#1 Reason for Companies to Hire Remotely in the Future

Transformify

While the majority of our company works from our offices (in NYC or Ukraine), we have a few remote workers at Chanty. Hiring developers in NYC is extremely expensive and in Ukraine, we had struggles finding great writers. Here is how we see remote work.

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My Business Made $153,428 While I Was Traveling In Europe Because I Made One Important Change Years Ago

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Hello from beautiful Lviv Ukraine, the town I presently call home. I’ve had a very busy 2017, traveling from Toronto to Vancouver, then Paris, Nice, Monaco, Lviv, Kiev, back to Paris for the French Open tennis, London, Valencia, Barcelona, Warsaw, and then back to Lviv. Traveling this frequently is not.

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