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Success Stories of Previous Winners at the Vernadsky Challenge

The Startup Magazine

Ukraine is a country rich in talents in the technology industry. Ukraine has never had a lot of investment possibilities for hardware startups. The Challenge is just 3 years old; it was initiated in 2015 by the Head of Google Ukraine, Dmitry Sholomko, and managing partner of Noosphere Ventures, Max Polyakov.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. Feasibility requires the teams to figure out what are the key activities, resources and partners they would need to deliver their product or service to their beneficiaries and their State Department sponsors.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. Feasibility requires the teams to figure out what are the key activities, resources and partners they would need to deliver their product or service to their beneficiaries and their State Department sponsors.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

How to Scale Unicorns With Partner David Zhang, TVC. Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. I have been in and around technology for over ten years. Jonathan Siddharth . David Zhang.

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Oksana?s Story: Geoffrey Frost

Austin Startup

THE IMPORTANCE OF GENDER PARTNERSHIP ‘The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.’ While not as imbalanced as physics, there were still more men then women that advanced to the partner track. Geoffrey used to quote William Gibson: “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed”.

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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

These two deals are significant, and suggest that Facebook didn’t just buy an app - Snaptu is a mobile platform and a distribution channel for emerging markets with low smartphone penetration, where the users use their mobile phones as their main access device to the Internet.