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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Next, Ashwin Bhambri from Warsaw, Poland, pitched Resmesh , a concept that aims to create 'profiles' for people.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Stock Options Stock Options are weighted heavily to compensate the people who take the most risk, namely, the people who join Fog Creek when its just a wee tiny company and were all jammed into one tiny office and we cant afford to buy your kids braces and sometimes you have to change the Poland Spring yourself. © 2000-2010 Joel Spolsky.

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Twitter Link Roundup #35 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Infographic on entrepreneurs’ state of mind in 2010 – [link]. PSFK list of most relevant brands of 2010. The Edelman 2010 Trust Barometer – [link]. Amazing tragedy as Poland’s entire leadership dies in plane crash – [link]. Understanding Salespeople at Startups – [link]. – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #35 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Infographic on entrepreneurs’ state of mind in 2010 – [link]. PSFK list of most relevant brands of 2010. The Edelman 2010 Trust Barometer – [link]. Amazing tragedy as Poland’s entire leadership dies in plane crash – [link]. Understanding Salespeople at Startups – [link]. – [link].

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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It’s a Family (tree) Business: My Herritage Acquires Polish Startup

VC Cafe

Techcrunch broke the news on the acquisition of Poland-based Bliscy.pl In 2010, MyHeritage.com acquired OSN (Verwandt.de) , a family social networking popular in Europe that was operating from Germany. Also in 2010, MyHeritage.com acquired the Dutch family network ZOOOF.com. by Israel-based MyHeritage.com.

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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

Founded in 2007 by Ron Makavy, Micha Berdichevsky, and Barak Naveh, Snaptu raised a total of $9 million in three rounds: $3 million from Carmel Ventures, $5 million a year ago (March 2010) from Sequoia and $1 million from private investors, including Spotlab, an angel fund operated by former Israeli MP Neomi Blumental. source: [link].