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Many Startups Stumble on International Cultures

Startup Professionals Musings

By Ernst Gemassme r Most of us have travelled abroad and experienced the challenges and frustrations of getting what we want without being laughed at or insulting our hosts. I informed him that we needed to translate the software into Finnish at a cost of $50,000. Some years ago Brazil had a major balance of payments deficit.

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International Cultures are Key Business Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

By Ernst Gemassmer Most of us have travelled abroad and experienced challenges and frustrations of getting what we want without being laughed at or insulting our hosts. I informed him that we needed to translate the software into Finish at a cost of $50,000. Some years ago Brazil had a major balance of payments deficit.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

However, for those who werent able to get in (or are real gluttons for punishment), I will be speaking the night before at a free event hosted by The Vancouver Ruby/Rails/Merb Meetup Group. April 21 - Agile Vancouver is sold-out (thank you all so much!). It will be a more-technical version of the Expo talk. You can register here.

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Join a conference simulcast near you

Startup Lessons Learned

The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3. Most simulcasts are free, although some charge a small fee to cover their costs. The following sites are confirmed livestream hosts. They represent more than 10,000 people total.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

Which comes to the second major principle: halt work that leads to more waste, even if it means abandoning sunk costs. Just because something looks pretty, or feels like a good idea, or has a lot of sunk cost in it, does not mean it should be pursued. This is a version of the andon cord technique from lean manufacturing.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties. These have very low acquisition costs and very high return on investment for you if the numbers all line up, so that’s perhaps the strategy you might choose to go for. It was a free one.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

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