Titled "Blood and Oil", it looks at why countries with natural resources fare poorer than

Titled "Blood and Oil", it looks at why countries with natural resources fare poorer thanTitled "Blood and Oil", it looks at why countries with natural resources fare poorer than

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Nassim Ismaila

• Jul 13

Titled "Blood and Oil", it looks at why countries with natural resources fare poorer than countries that don't.

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Anna Selkova

• Jul 31

The difference between an agency spending $40k a week on ads and one that spends the same amount while systematically growing its creative pool isn't the budget. It's how quickly they run out of "good" creatives. The first group chases the next viral format. The second group builds a system in which the burnout of a creative is a normal, predictable event, not a crisis. That's the difference between production as a reaction to a problem and production as infrastructure. Is your production a reaction or infrastructure right now?

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Joanna Borkowska

• Jul 30

Tagline: Oru AI. Weave scattered proof into source-cited campaigns.

Flowstep Public Prototype Link: View Flowstep Prototype

Canva Video Overview Link: Watch Main Walkthrough

Canva MCP Server Demo Link: Watch MCP Integration Demo

Detailed Documentation & Notes (what's OruAI, what prompts I used, why so many, where I could spot possible product bugs, and more): View Project Notes (Google Doc)

LinkedIn post: Here

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Semil Shah

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• Jul 31

When international growth actually works

An eSports betting platform wanted to scale across seven countries. We fixed their hreflang implementation, built out proper multilingual content, and secured 950+ high-quality backlinks. The result was 1800% year-over-year growth, taking them from 10K to 192K monthly visitors.

Going global with SEO isn't just translation. Without the right technical foundation, most international expansions leak traffic instead of gaining it.