International Contractors Network

Freelancers

• 10 Apps to Help New Entrepreneurs, Still at Black Friday Pricing November 28, 2020
  Score limited-time savings on awesome apps.
• Want to Know How Gen Z Is Transforming Digital Marketing? Take One Look at Wendy's. November 28, 2020
  Gen Z may be the first digitally native group in history.
• 10 Charging Accessories You Can Still Get at Black Friday Prices November 28, 2020
  Make sure you always have a charge with these budget-friendly tools.
• Giving is Transformational November 28, 2020
  Giving is contagious. Conscious giving can be infinite.
• Best Buy is leaving Mexico and this job offers you 50 thousand pesos to watch movies: Check the most important news of the week November 28, 2020
  Find out about the most relevant information in less than five minutes.
• They Asked Jeff Bezos to Help Rescue Stranded Sailors November 28, 2020
  There are some seafarers who have been at sea for more than a year due to port restrictions.

Centers for infectious disease

• Less than 10% of Americans had COVID by September, study finds November 25, 2020
  Chris Dall | News Reporter | CIDRAP NewsNov 25, 2020Through Sep 24, the CDC says, seroprevalence rates ranged from 0% to 23%.
• Studies find no COVID benefit for preventive hydroxychloroquine or for convalescent plasma November 25, 2020
  Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP NewsNov 25, 2020"There are no compelling data to suggest that hydroxychloroquine is effective." 
• Pace of global COVID-19 rise slows, but deaths still climbing November 25, 2020
  Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP NewsNov 25, 2020For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the US added more than 1 million cases in each of the past 2 weeks.

Entrepreneur info

Grants New Opportunity List by Agency

• Head Start/Early Head Start Grantee -- Communities in the state of Michigan November 28, 2020
  HHS-2021-ACF-OHS-CH-R05-1873
• TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO BROWNFIELDS COMMUNITIES November 28, 2020
  EPA-OLEM-OBLR-20-08
• The State Flexibility to Stabilize the Market Grant Program Cycle II November 28, 2020
  PR-PRP-21-001
• Head Start/Early Head Start Grantee -- Communities in the state of South Carolina November 28, 2020
  HHS-2021-ACF-OHS-CH-R04-1888
• Charting a Course for Economic Mobility and Responsible Parenting - Cohort 2 November 28, 2020
  HHS-2021-ACF-OCSE-FD-1858

Small Business Trends

• Keala Gaines of eBay: Offering Right Payment Options on Right Devices Remove Friction, Improves Customer Experience November 27, 2020
  Brent Leary interviews Keala Gaines of eBay on the importance of small businesses offering the right payment options to customers.
• In the News: Small Business Owners Frustrated Not Getting Aid November 27, 2020
  Check out the headlines that were most important to small business owners in America this week.
• Adobe Predicts Online Spending to Increase 33% in 2020 Over 2019 November 27, 2020
  Partly due to the trend toward it and partly due to pandemic restrictions, Adobe sees a 33% increase in online spending in 2020.
• You’ll Tune It Out, They Said (CARTOON) November 27, 2020
  Clocks were his passion but there was one thing he couldn't get over about them.
• 5 Tips to Get Ready for Filing W-2 and More November 26, 2020
  Check out these small business tax expert tips for filing a W-2 Form and more in 2020.
• 5 Proactive Measures Companies Can Take Against Malware Attacks November 26, 2020
  Check out our tips that a small business can take to prevent a potentially harmful malware cyber security attack.

Jagoinvestor

• 10 benefits of being an “employee” vs an entrepreneur November 20, 2020
  This is a long, but intense and immensely high-value article. So please read it fully! Today I want to talk about some of the advantages of “doing a job”, rather than running a business or being an entrepreneur. If you are someone who thinks that having your own business is “always” better than “doing a […]
• Loan Moratorium Waiver Benefit by Govt – Get Cashback in your bank account soon! October 26, 2020
  There is good news for those loan borrowers who didn’t opt for the loan moratorium benefit which was introduced by govt due to the pandemic. The govt has decided to pay the interest on the interest of the loan outstanding and pass on the benefit in form of cashback to loan borrowers. Let me explain […]
• Gold & Indian Marriages – Survey results of 2000+ participants October 16, 2020
  Do you have a daughter? Saving in gold for her marriage? Nice! .. Nothing wrong with it. Just that I wanted to tell you what your daughter wants?! Yes, that’s exactly what we did. We ran a survey with around 1,996 people which was a mix of men and women and tried to get a […]

National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers

• Why Is All COVID-19 News Bad News? -- by Bruce Sacerdote, Ranjan Sehgal, Molly Cook
• The Inexorable Recoveries of US Unemployment -- by Robert E. Hall, Marianna Kudlyak
• Cite Unseen: Theory and Evidence on the Effect of Open Access on Cites to Academic Articles Across the Quality Spectrum -- by Mark J. McCabe, Christopher Snyder
• Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance India -- by Karthik Muralidharan, Abhijeet Singh

Business Women

• This Summit Wants to Inspire You to Study a STEM Career November 27, 2020
  The Communities Summit will be held on Sunday, December 6 from 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Founder of Epic Queen receives the Innovators Under 35 LATAM award from MIT Technology Review magazine November 26, 2020
  Ana Karen Ramírez obtained the highest recognition for young people who work in technology, innovation and entrepreneurship and is among the 35 brightest minds on the continent.
• Influential Women Discuss How To Fearlessly Navigate the Business World November 25, 2020
  Powerful women share their secrets for becoming business industry leaders.
• The Four Bs of Planning a Successful Conference for 2021 November 25, 2020
  Angie Lee shares insights on creating a seven-figure business from networking events.
• This Organization Encourages Women to Give Their Businesses a Digital Makeover November 24, 2020
  The Mexican Association of Women Heads of Business (AMMJE) will hold its Annual Business Summit "Digital Disruption." We have places for you.
• 5 Mind Tricks That Will Bring You Amazing Money Luck November 23, 2020
  Shift your money mindset and watch your fortune grow.