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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Next, Ashwin Bhambri from Warsaw, Poland, pitched Resmesh , a concept that aims to create 'profiles' for people.

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SXSW Startups: Sceenic Connects Viewers

Austin Startup

Then, when I was running MTV in Latin America but my parents were in London, it was the Volleyball World Championship Final, Poland vs Brazil. government) giving grants to innovate R&D-based projects and grants for research studies, etc. My dad called me on the phone to watch it together, separated by 13,000 miles. In the U.K.

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Freedom is Just Another Word…

Growthink Blog

Now, to the degree that the success of the American experience has inspired freedom worldwide - such that economies and cultures and lives of people in places like China, India, Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, parts of Africa - that until recently have been clothed in medieval darkness, poverty, and rigidity. But build on that.

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3 historical innovations and the businesses they birthed

crowdSPRING Blog

By the mid-18th century, the Empress had decreed that vodka distilleries were the exclusive purview of the government and and in the latter half of the 1700s taxes on Vodka sales were responsible for up to 40% of the Czar’s revenue! Meanwhile, distillation of Vodka spread like wildfire to neighboring countries.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

Late 2020 revealed the depth of the Solarwinds hack, which had massive implications for government agencies and (ironically) cybersecurity provider FireEye. He led the company’s global business operations through its centers in the US, the UK, Spain, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Mexico, Australia, Poland, and Israel.

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VC Day

ithacaVC

It has been a while since my last post on June 11th, which I wrote as I was heading over to Poland to watch Euros soccer. The issues dealt mostly with managing tax payments to the government on income deemed earned by management team members on receipt of the buyer’s stock. The soccer trip was great.

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The Internet Might Kill Us All

Steve Blank

The ability to copy and disseminate banned ideas undermined repressive regimes from Poland to Iran to the Soviet Union. In the 21 st century, authoritarian governments still fear their own people talking to each other and asking questions. One of the most effective weapons in the Cold War was the mimeograph machine and the VCR.

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