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From Israel to Pakistan, Community is Key When Building a Startup (Google I/O)

VC Cafe

Google I/O: It’s a startup world. To achieve the trifecta of startup success (money, talent, ideas), a vibrant startup community can make the difference between success and failure. When I moved to VC, I found out that there were no good consumer internet startups. They were sporadic.

Pakistan 113
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Our 7 favorite startups from the Wayra London 2013 demo day

The Next Web

The Telefonica-backed Wayra London incubator officially opened its doors last year, but its current intake of startups have only called it home for around seven months. Last night it was finally time for Wayra demoDay 2013 – a chance for the fledgling startups to draw interest and offers of cash from a crowd of more than 200 investors.

Croatia 147
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Two years of remote working – hiring, scaling, culture, and the lifestyle trade-off

The Startup Toolkit

“Just come to Bulgaria for a few weeks” isn’t as compelling as I had hoped. For example, we’ve set up our comms so we can be away from internet for a week or more without negative effects. But our first hire didn’t, so it wasn’t. So hiring is one big reason. Lifestyle'

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