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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

Both Sides of the Table

They’re easily impressed when you’re selected for TechCrunch50 but not easily engaged in a detailed discussion about your conversion metrics. 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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From Israel to Pakistan, Community is Key When Building a Startup (Google I/O)

VC Cafe

The panel included Erik Hersman (Kenya ,founder of iHub), Eden Shochat (Israel, founder of Face.com, VC at Genesis, founder of The Junction), Jon Bradford (UK/Ireland, founder of Springboard), Jeffery Paine (Singapore, Golden Gate Ventures) and Jehan Ara (Pakistan). Bridgette: Jehan, how is Pakistan unique as a market? .

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

YoungUpstarts

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. His concept captured the imagination of enough people that North Aware’s Kickstarter campaign raised an astonishing $2.6 They were expensive for starters.

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Geography of The Great Resignation: What Is the Global Impact?

Board Effect

Workers were already not being paid fair wages and had little savings at the beginning of the pandemic,” said Zameer Awan, a field worker with the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research, to Reuters. Indeed, a swathe of metrics all point to one of the hottest labour markets coming out of the pandemic.” Washington Post.

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Why International Startups Love NY, and NY VCs Love International Startups

David Teten

New York is now the second-most-active tech ecosystem in the US on all key metrics, after the Bay Area. To date, out of 17 companies, HOF Capital has backed 7 founding teams with roots in underrepresented regions: Egypt, Latin America, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

For many startups, this can be some of the hardest money to raise because traditional metrics aren’t well established, yet. Recently I spent three months in Colombia and in November I’ll be traveling around Pakistan for the fifth time and visiting people I work with, out there as part of my Epic Backpacker Tours company.

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The Undeniable Truth About Biology Dictionary That Nobody Is Telling You

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Celsius scale is the section of the metric system and is utilized to assess the temperature in many nations. Pakistan study quality is not so well due to a lot of difficulties. Type the word or phrase you would like to find into the principal search box at the very top of the webpage. The Pain of Biology Dictionary.