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Like Their Customers, Tech Startups Will Weather the Storm

ReadWriteStart

In 2022, we saw unusual supply constraints — lingering post-coronavirus supply chain issues, a persistently tight labor market , and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — converge with high demand — partly fueled by heavy government stimulus during the first two years of the pandemic.

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[Event] Ukraine, Thailand And US Take Top Spots At Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012

YoungUpstarts

Taking top spot in the Software Design category is quadSquad from Ukraine, winning US$25,000 with its set of custom-designed sensory gloves and a smartphone application called ‘Enable Talk’ that allows the deaf to communicate verbally by translating sign languages into speech. . First Place: quadSquad (Ukraine).

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

Hearpreneur

improved) customer experience. For this purpose, he used the cloud to leverage the solution. Anita convinced customers to spend their hard-earned money on greener products at a time when it was very uncommon. Thanks to Anthony Vaccaro, Timewatch ! #4- 4- Jeff Bezos. Photo Credit: Omer Reiner. 18- Vitalik Buterin.

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From the Ukraine with Love

Growthink Blog

Vladimir Lempert CEO and founder of Spetztekhosnastka, or “STO”, a plastics design and manufacturing company headquartered in Dniprodzerzhins'k (about 200 miles Southeast of Kiev), in the Ukraine. Or Prague or Peoria. As it is, if we just let it be so, for the rest of us too. read more.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

In fact, my history with Rob and Backupify goes back almost ten years, well before the idea of cloud backup was ever a glimmer in anyone''s eye. Still, he got his guys in the Ukraine to code something up. I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky.

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A Fish Out Of Water

YoungUpstarts

The trail undulated up and down taking you into the mists of the clouds. I was up at 13,000 feet sharing the route with young Russian speaking circus performers from Ukraine. I thought this custom was strange and felt foreign. I wondered when that custom started in Ecuador and how diffident that is from the U.S.

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International tour about to begin

Startup Lessons Learned

Any chance seeing you in Kiev, Ukraine? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? I think there are more enterpreneurs per capita here than anywhere else! September 15, 2009 7:24 AM Mikesaid. It would be great to see you in Madrid! September 18, 2009 12:21 PM max said.