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The Helsinki Spring

ReadWriteStart

I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. steve blank in finland sept 2011 View more documents from steve blank. This is the first of two posts about Finland and entrepreneurship. 9-to-5 Venture Capital.

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Millennials In Asia Are Ambitious And Entrepreneurial: VISA Study

YoungUpstarts

We’ve looked at what can go in the minds of a Millennial employee , what their greatest strengths are, talked about what they can learn from baby boomers , how entrepreneurial they are and even how companies can best appreciate them. Filipinos come a very close second at 79-percent, followed by Russia (60-percent).

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011. Stanley intends to use the 200 employees of AeroScout to establish an R&D center in Israel built around the existing AeroScout framework. Global sales in 2011 were $2.76

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Racism in Tech

Feld Thoughts

My grandparents immigrated from Russia, Germany, and Austria – there were people in those countries trying really hard to kill them before they managed to immigrate to America. He had just heard from one of his employees who had been at a customer site for the past three days with another employee. In the United States.

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Nicolas Brusson discusses BlaBlaCar’s journey from French success story to global winner

Cracking the Code

We had a good product that worked well in France, so we expanded it across Europe between 2011 and 2014, before moving to a more global scale, launching in Russia, Mexico, and India. Internally, we also worked a lot on our general principles around the way we work for our employees, crowdsourcing them at a company offsite in 2013.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. We think of it much more in terms of how many employees does the company have? And then, in 2011, they announced this plan to split as mail and streaming services. So inflation is always one where it’s not fun.

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35 Leading Women Entrepreneurs Paving The Way For Success

Designmantic Blog

She is also the author of Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth and is the founder of “The Authority Matrix”, which is a powerful tool used by Fortune500 executives that utilizes employee advocacy and influence. Website: themarketingnutz.com. Peg Fitzpatrick. Website: pegfitzpatrick.com.