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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I thought I was pretty sell suited to answer that question because having grown up in Northern California but lived and worked in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain & Japan over 11 years I had seen quite a few societies and work environments. We hired outside experts. When we ship product. Time will tell.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Italist is the essence of what we do: bringing online the experience of shopping from the streets of Italy. When we created Yeeply in 2012 we were sure IT hiring was going to be all about freelancing platforms and remote work. Italist is the result of Italian+list=italist. Thanks to Raffaele Giovine, Italist ! #3- He decided to make a.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). We have great intellectual property protection, and have efficient ways to enforce contracts. Think Philips Electronics, NXP, ASML and Tom Tom.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. So, and then the second thing is like, occasionally, a lot of people would assume I'm a technical, like CTO of a company. I've heard that story from a lot of folks.