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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

Felipe grew up in Brazil. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. Irony, hey?).

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Paul Herdsman Of NICE Global: The Benefits Of Utilizing Nearshore Outsourcing For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Put simply, offshore outsourcing means hiring a company to perform a service from a different part of the world. Examples of this for businesses in the United States would be countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, or Jamaica. What is the difference between offshoring and nearshoring?

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Be a Benevolent Dictator (And Eight More Lessons For Getting Your Stalled Start-up Off The Ground)

YoungUpstarts

Let “Mother” do the hiring. Bad hires are not only disruptive to businesses — they’re also expensive. How can you stack the deck in your favor when making a new hire? By getting the hard stuff out of the way early, you don’t have to work with a sense of dread and you’re freed up to enjoy the rest of the day.

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Stop Thinking And Acting Local: Small Businesses Seeking Growth Should See Themselves As Global Enterprises

YoungUpstarts

Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. With the tools now freely available online, you don’t necessarily need to hire a team of advertising professionals to reach audiences overseas. Attracting Overseas Customers.

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How can startups engage with Google?

VC Cafe

They offer free trainings, mentorship from Googlers, workshops (on fundraising, hiring, internationalisation, etc), a diverse range of events and international exchange programs between the hubs. OKR setting, best practices for hiring, etc). Regional Google for startups accelerators (Africa, Brazil, India, etc.)

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. Build a team – we have plans to hire at a minimum 2 more engineers once funded with many more to follow and you will be hand selecting your team. We extended a working agreement to one individual on Monday and decided to hire another person instead of the original plan of just one.

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Brazil is using the law to push innovation, but here’s how it can do more

The Next Web

operations for Brazil-based Movile , a mobile platform for content and commerce. This is a step forward for the Good Law—which has already helped Brazil a lot—but private business and government need to start doing more to truly help launch Brazil’s mobile potential. Eduardo Henrique is the head of U.S.

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