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Creating a Narrative from Numbers

The key to a successful business plan is a coherent story built around financial projections and external context.

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Ali Al-Suhail

Ali Al-Suhail

Ali has advised on equity transactions amounting to US $3 billion involving startups, mid-market companies, and private equity firms.

How to Scale Internationally: Global Product Design

Companies rolling out international products tend to focus primarily on proper language translation. However, a host of other essential components should not be missed in order to make your product a global success.

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Adrienne Jan

Adrienne Jan

Adrienne has more than 15 years of experience in marketing and product roles across multiple countries.

Create a WhatsApp Chatbot, Not an App

Feedback on an enterprise web app prompted an experiment. Could a WhatsApp chatbot replace it? Would people like it better? Would it be more useful?

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Aminadav Glickshtein

Aminadav Glickshtein

Aminadav has 20 years of professional experience. Having started coding at the age of seven, programming is like a native language to him.

Black Swans and the Paradigm Shift of Remote Work – COVID-19 Lessons, Part 2

Remote work is a paradigm shift with profound implications. Here, Toptal’s Chief Economist identifies the main challenges of the traditional work paradigm. In doing so, he reveals how breaking these constraints leads to closer collaboration and more innovation than ever before.

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Erik Stettler

Erik Stettler

Erik is a co-founder of a global venture capital fund that has invested in 50 startups (raising more than $500 million) and has realized six exits. He serves as Toptal’s Chief Economist and holds an MBA from Harvard.

The Past Is Still Present: An Overview of Timeless Design

Will there ever be a digital equivalent to the ageless wonders of industrial design? We share examples of timeless design and detail how designers can ensure digital relevancy for decades to come.

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Damir Kotorić

Damir Kotorić

Damir is a multidisciplinary designer who brings digital products to life for startups and Fortune 500 giants all around the world.

Strategies for Leading a Fully Distributed Team: Q&A with Toptal CEO Taso Du Val

Taso Du Val is the CEO of Toptal, the world’s largest fully distributed company. Paul Estes sat down with Du Val to discuss Toptal’s recently published “The Suddenly Remote Playbook,” a guide for building and sustaining an enterprise-grade remote work environment.

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Paul Estes

Paul Estes

Staffing.com editor-in-chief, The Talent Economy Podcast host, and former innovator at Microsoft.

Interview: The Promise of Intel oneAPI and Direct Parallel C++

What if developers could use the same code, tools, and libraries on a CPU, GPU, or an AI accelerator? Intel’s oneAPI initiative aims to do just that by offering a unified programming model across multiple hardware architectures.

Toptal Technical Editor Nermin Hajdarbegovic discusses oneAPI’s genesis and future with Sanjiv M. Shah, VP of Intel’s Architecture, Graphics and Software Group.

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Nermin Hajdarbegović

Nermin Hajdarbegović

A veteran tech writer, Nermin helped create online publications covering everything from the semiconductor industry to cryptocurrencies.

Small Business Resources for COVID-19: Loans, Grants, and Credits

Many American businesses have been forced to close or drastically cut back operations due to an unprecedented pandemic affecting the entire globe. Thankfully, the government, communities, and even private business have stepped up.

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James Costello

James Costello

James is a chartered accountant with 20 years of experience, including strategic corporate and governance work.

How to Perfect and Leverage Remote UX Workshops

Conducting a remote UX workshop can be extremely challenging. To avoid disaster, it’s important that facilitators follow best practices, observe proven techniques and prepare thoroughly.

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Carlos Rosemberg

Carlos Rosemberg

Carlos is a user experience strategist, researcher, and strategist who creates useful, simple, and pleasurable digital products and services.

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