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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

Today, the end of Communism in Eastern Europe seems so obvious, but in my home country of Romania, until the day Nicolae Ceausescu was shot dead, I thought he would rule forever. In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. So what will become of IT?

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12 Questions: Meet Emanuel H?rd?u? (Transylvania, Romania)

crowdSPRING Blog

Emanuel lives and works in Cluj-Napoca (Transylvania), Romania. I’m 34, I am a graphic and motion designer, I live in Cluj-Napoca (Transylvania), Romania, with my fiancee, Luciana, which I love very much and I hope we’ll get married soon. The show was broadcasted on a national television (Antena1) in Romania.

Romania 68
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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

Today, the end of Communism in Eastern Europe seems so obvious, but in my home country of Romania, until the day Nicolae Ceausescu was shot dead, I thought he would rule forever. In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. So what will become of IT?

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12 Questions: Meet Jelena Mirkovic Jankovic (Serbia)

crowdSPRING Blog

And no designer portfolio whatsoever. That’s how I’ve been preparing a web portfolio (for design) for years now and I still cannot make myself to start! The only thing I do have is a web page with my art portfolio (which needs to be updated, naturally) – www.jelenamirkovic.com. Transylvania, Romania). Hvala Jelena!

Serbia 68
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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

His father came from Romania. So my family is Jewish and very typical immigration story – his father left Romania at 19, had to get a fake passport in order to get out of the country, left and never went back, and left in the middle of winter and got frostbite. By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition to supporting their portfolio companies in coming to the event, they also have taken the additional step of underwriting a limited number of discounted tickets that are available to the general public. Our sponsors continue to support the conference as well as deserving entrepreneurs. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Janvest Wants to Fill the Seed Investment Gap in Israel (Interview)

VC Cafe

In addition, we are working with more modest capital, for example, the current fund we are putting together (first of many), is $5.0M, which will be used to invest up to $500K in approximately 10 seed stage companies in the Internet, software, telecom, security/defense and alternative energy sectors.