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Remote Reinvention: How to Find Freelance Work

Building up a pipeline of work as a finance consultant requires a portfolio approach to the various inbound and outbound options for lead generation.

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Lines of Communication: A Typeface History (With Infographic)

Typeface evolution has been slower than other areas of design but looking back over the past 500+ years shows staggering advancements, from the invention of the printing press to variable web fonts.

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Cameron Chapman

Cameron Chapman

Cameron is the former Head of Content at Uxcel, where she was an instructional designer of UX design courses, skill assessments, and other educational design content. She has more than 20 years experience in the design education space, contributing to Toptal’s Design blog, Smashing Magazine, Web Designer News, CodeVisually, and Webdesigner Depot.

The Power of Optionality, Part 1: Tech & Talent

The greatest risks can be systematically converted into valuable opportunities via optionality. This three-part series offers a framework for evaluating risk and reward in extreme contexts while utilizing on-demand talent to leverage these opportunities fast.

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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.

Remote Work and the Globalization of Services

Until recently, globalization has been about the trade of goods, not services. The ability of companies to hire remote workers allows—for the first time—the global trade of services. This will have major implications for the global economy.

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Kleanthis Georgaris

Kleanthis Georgaris

Kleanthis is a seasoned product leader and entrepreneur. He is the former SVP of Product at Toptal and has held other roles in strategy and product at Microsoft, McKinsey & Company, and multiple startups. Kleanthis has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and an MBA from the National Technical University of Athens.

Don’t Build, Integrate: A Guide to CRM Integration

Customer Relationship Management systems provide businesses with more clarity and information about customer behavior, helping boost sales, retain existing customers, and attract new ones.

In this article, Toptal Software Developer Leif Gensert outlines the basic challenges of CRM integration and explains what you can do to make the process as efficient and frictionless as possible.

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Leif Gensert

Leif Gensert

Leif has a decade of experience in back-end development using Ruby and Elixir. He’s worked for both large consulting firms and early-stage startups. His side projects and open source contributions ensure he is always up-to-date on the latest tech.

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.

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