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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

My wife, Ann, and I took a trip this past spring to visit Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Russia. Two hundred angels, entrepreneurs and members of the startup community attended this inaugural event. Audiences totaled over three hundred and eighty entrepreneurs, investors and members of the startup community.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

In addition to speaking at IDCEE’13 in Kyiv, Cooper had another goal in visiting Ukraine (and Russia, a couple of days before that). The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine have been sort of anchors for oDesk on the technical side,” Cooper explained.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. This article previously appeared in War On The Rocks. There was a time when much of U.S. America’s adversaries understand this.

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Canada Is Going To Be The Next, Great, Entrepreneurial Tech Country

Feld Thoughts

I wouldn’t be here other than the immigration of my great-grandparents (and my maternal grandfather) in the early 1900’s from Europe and Russia. The Toronto/Waterloo startup community is on fire. While I feel deeply (and proudly) American, I know that my family has only been here for a few generations.

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Dual Citizenship: Business Opportunities with a Second Passport

The Startup Magazine

For instance, the Caribbean nations permit dual nationals to travel to more than 130 nations, such as the UK, the Schengen Area, Hong Kong, China, Russia, and Singapore. Depending on the country of the second citizenship, an entrepreneur will be able to travel to various nations without a visa.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Steve Blank

Five years ago, Joe Felter , Pete Newell and I realized that few of our students considered careers in the Department of Defense or Intelligence Community. Today there is a national network of 40 colleges and universities teaching Hacking for Defense.

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What do your VCs care about and does it matter?

This is going to be BIG.

What if it turns out she feels most herself in the LGBTQ+ community? I’m supposed to participate in a tech and startup community under these conditions? Or, if it isn’t about my daughter, knowing that it’s happening to other families in my community—the founders of the companies I back? I have a daughter. Their employees?

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