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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. The Europe goal was shaped by three random things: My father is from South America and his native language is Spanish (although his father was from Romania and escaped oppression there).

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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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The Silk Road Patron

Start Up Blog

In fact, what we are doing has been on line for some time for those who wanted to seek it out – the secret , has been out a while on this Ignite talk I did at a global digital event as linked below: A Stranger From Romania. The Silk Road Patron is the internet version of a silk road trader of antiquity. It is done.

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My Commencement Speech?—?Life at Your Crossroads

Both Sides of the Table

His father, my grandfather, ended up in South America after fleeing Jewish oppression in Romania. It was 1999 and I had valuable Internet skills. After just 4 years I become managing partner of what is now the largest venture capital fund in Los Angeles. My dad was an immigrant from Colombia. My grandfather.

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

VC Cafe

Snaptu is a fast-growing application for feature-phones (or not-so-smart phones) which serves as a mini-app store for WAP-Internet phones. In 2010 not "very smart" feature phones - handsets that are dumber than smartphones - comprised over 75 percent of the mobile market. source: [link].