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6 Reasons IT Outsourcing Software Development To Eastern Europe is on the Rise in the US: Key Benefits and Trends

The Startup Magazine

In global competitions like Hackerrank, countries such as Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria often rank high, reflecting their strong emphasis on STEM education. The region is known for producing numerous tech graduates proficient in languages like Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, and C#.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK. It took more than a year to make this happen (I’ll cover how I did this in a different post) but January 2nd, 1995 I flew to France for 2 years and didn’t move back to the US for 11 years.

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Should Apple Buy Hungary?

Agile VC

I had read somewhere that Apple’s cash pile was equivalent to Hungary’s GDP so I tweeted out the suggestion that perhaps an activist shareholder should push an acquisition of Hungary rather than thinking small (e.g. For some reason the notion of Apple hiking the taxes of Hungary to fund a dividend recap just amuses me….

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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

If you’re recruiting out of Hungary, the signals you’d typically rely on to help you identify strong candidates probably don’t exist. Today, for hiring local talent, you can use AngelList, or you can use a recruiter yourself. But if you’re hiring from an African country (Nigeria, for example).

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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

But you can’t assume that these things are true if an applicant is from Hungary. If someone worked at Google, or Facebook, or Apple, or a highly regarded venture-funded startup, you can be reasonably certain that the person is skilled. You can also be reasonably sure that they have advanced English communication skills.

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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Hungary

The Next Web

By Gianluca Bellan and Andrea Hak Hungary is a startup hub on the rise. You’ve no doubt already heard of Prezi, the country’s first unicorn, which ended the reign of boring presentations globally by making them more engaging and interactive. The company now has over 100 million users, raised $72.8

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

Skype is probably the most famous of them, but there are a lot of other examples including Game Insights, Kaspersky and Parallels in Russia, LogMeIn and Prezi in Hungary and Avast and AVG in the Czech Republic. Why Eastern Europe?