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APRIL 17, 2016

Example from this morning was a quick discussion on the “Brexit” and wether the UK will exit Europe. It is not uncommon for founders to fight amongst themselves or teams to develop silos that simple can’t stomach talking with other groups so they avoid human contact and revert to flaming wars on email or Slack.

Pakistan 150

Pakistan Technical Review Iran Russia 150

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JULY 13, 2013

You start traveling around Europe, starting working for them overseas. Or did I want to move to Europe? I only went because I wanted to live and work in Europe. DEREK 8:33] So you’re working in Europe. 00:12:57] DEREK: This was in Europe? Not in Europe or South Korea. Tell us about that.

Cofounder 337

Cofounder Technical Cofounder San Diego Startup 337

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Due to the language and culture issues in Europe we opted for a country structure with an MD in each country and local sales, marketing & customers support staff. I had developers who thought that the chief architect was a bottleneck – having to be involved in every decision. We faced it when we were small.

Ireland 319

Ireland Sales Bankruptcy Germany 319

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MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Always seek input.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

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MAY 20, 2018

We were working on their go-to-market strategy for Europe and Carly was Group President of the division where I was advising (a $19 billion line of business) at Lucent and she flew out for the final presentations. I have now developed this into my own standard (softer) speech I give to entrepreneurs.

LP 189

LP Software Review Europe Founder 189

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MAY 19, 2019

I always wanted to work in Europe but it was hard to ask for a sponsoring company to pay for you to come over. I called every person I knew in Accenture Europe and asked for advice to get transferred. It is better to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission After 5 years in Europe I decided I really wanted to work in Japan.

Japan 253

Japan Chicago Europe South America 253

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My trip was scheduled around the annual Web Summit and the f.ounders conference, both of which have become the hottest must-attend event in Europe and rivaling any great conference in the US. Getting names of marquee speakers would obviously draw a good crowd from across Europe. Paddy never stopped.

Ireland 392

Ireland Global Las Vegas Switzerland 392

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JANUARY 10, 2010

I pushed for Accenture to transfer me to Europe. Always developing. years in LA (early 90’s) many of my friends left to start companies in Silicon Valley. We were high tech at the very start of the boom. I chose a different path. And while I bounced back very easily, many of the bank elders did not.

France 295

France Spain Technical Review Hungary 295

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APRIL 28, 2012

Every extra set of features that you added that served one narrow use case end up being features you need to support in future releases adding complexity to future development, usability testing, regression testing, etc. We are giving a version of our product to a team in Europe who will start selling our product internationally.

Bandwidth 415

Bandwidth Management Startup Channel 415

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MARCH 25, 2016

The US market is worth more than $25 billion and Europe is the same. And our software allowed us to offer: tighter pick-up windows, better utilization of “uploader staff” and to launch new products & services that I won’t discuss because they’re in development now. So, let’s start with the basics.

Startup 150

Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

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JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). We discussed European VC, which is rumored to be down by up to 82%. Read more: PaidContent.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. I had two goals in mind: I wanted to be even more technical than I already was as a developer (I wanted to work on cutting edge stuff, which back then was the Internet – pre World Wide Web browsers) and I wanted to live & work in Europe. True story.].

Europe 352

Europe France San Francisco Chicago 352

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JULY 23, 2013

It is simply the most important way to proactively control your career development and how the market perceives you. It was embarrassing to witness yet it was one of the least forms of gender bias I experienced in my time working in continental Europe and Asia. It is neither. People form perceptions of you whether you like it or not.

Marketing 385

Marketing Europe Engineer Networking 385

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JULY 4, 2011

I had been living in Europe since the start of 1995, most recently in London. Or if you’re a developer perhaps you could donate time by dedicated to their hack-a-thon? Not true in Europe. The funniest experience I ever had on July 4th (US Independence Day) was in 1999. So one of my bucket list items was to live in Japan.

America 290

America South America Honduras Sacramento 290

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. It required content sites to develop totally new content. Everybody and their mothers are coming into my offices proclaiming that their developing the latest iPhone App. Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely. It was hard to use.

Flash 326

Flash Mobile Application Development Cloud 326

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

He not only has experience in dealing with the carriers where at JAMDAT he established all the carrier relationships but he also led the international expansion of JAMDAT in Europe, Asia & South America giving them a footprint in 40 countries. We have massively engaged youth using our product. They have no interest in an early exit.

Later Stage 310

Later Stage South America Mobile Silicon Valley 310

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JUNE 6, 2012

When you think about “time windows” of film distribution you literally need to think about the fact that you would open a film in the US and later ship the physical reels to London then Europe to open overseas. But the fact that Netflix focused on Arrested Development tells me they are likely thinking more like me.

Media 302

Media South Korea Distribution Technical Review 302

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MAY 7, 2016

The founders and team develop a huge confidence level that appropriately increases risk-taking, output, expansion, deals, revenue, press and everything that is a consequence of initial successes. You attended speaker dinners, went to entrepreneur parties on ships or in Europe. Your lead developer quit to join the new, new thing.

Churn Rate 150

Churn Rate Vesting Dilution Europe 150

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JANUARY 28, 2011

You want somebody who can do handset deals in the US, Europe & Asia. You want somebody who can raise $15 million to build out your R&D, business development and sales organizations. I am a strong believer that leadership and team development comes from these daily interactions. It was magic. I had some loyal friends.

Leadership 363

Leadership CTO Hire Technical Review Cofounder 363

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JULY 29, 2015

I saw some companies that became truly rancid – even one entrepreneur who flew to Hawaii as his company was melting down and got drunk at an M&A meeting to save his team and he ended up not paying his entire team all of their final expense payments but he flew first class to Europe. I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010.

South Korea 150

South Korea Italy Recapitalization Germany 150

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JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

At your stage of development do you really think a shit-hot VP Sales is going to join you to head up sales? One such meeting that he set up was with the CIO of the largest consumer products company in Europe. Bringing in a senior person who’s “done it all before&# is often a mistake in a startup.

Hiring 327

Hiring Startup Equity Sales 327

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Having been through the experience as an entrepreneur twice myself I have developed a list of what I think it takes. I had spent the previous 11 years in Europe and Japan. So what skills does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? What attributes am I looking for during the process? Persistence will pay off. An example.

Entrepreneur 338

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Florida 338

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017.

Government 280

Government Distribution Stock United States 280

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

He has questioned why the US would develop weapons unless we were prepared to use them preemptively. He has said he wouldn’t take using nuclear weapons in Europe off the table and that his goal on nuclear weapons was to be “unpredictable.”

Saudi Arabia 150

Saudi Arabia United States South Korea Ukraine 150