crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

This is less true for Salesforce – it continues to be a market darling while continuously losing huge sums of money. For example, there are five major markets where Facebook is not the top social network : China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. And in its most important market – the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2012

Prior to starting All The Worlds Entertainment , Thomson was executive chairman of global integrated advertising agency iris Worldwide , where he grew the business from £39 million to £75 million, and established iris in 15 key markets globally along the way.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2011

Intimately involved in resolving major macroeconomic crises in Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. Became US Treasury Secretary in 1999. President of Harvard from 2001 to 2006. Until late 2010, served as President Obama’s director of the White House National Economic Council.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

There are a couple of good reasons a company should consider bootstrapping its market entry. Or the founders have taken on a small amount of seed financing, just enough to get them into the market. This was especially true as we found some of the best developers to be in Russia and India, therefore splitting the travel.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Today, more than 90 million BlaBlaCar community members travel by carpool of long-distance buses across 22 markets. There were no social networks, let alone sharing economy then, so it took a while to take off. Back in 2006, that was a very weird concept. BlaBlaCar started in France and became a local phenomenon.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Not sure about what percentage of those get used (there’s more than 125 million active vs. unknown no of parked domains), but many of the owners try their luck and spend money on hosting, design, development and maybe even a little bit of marketing. based in emerging markets: Russia, China, India.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Caught in between, social media companies try to constructively engage with both the “right” and the “left” domestically while rooting out foreign influences from antagonistic nations like Russia and Iran. Market forces do help with this task, as companies in competitive environments respond to customer preferences over time.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. The app obviously geolocalizes every info and integrates with Facebook and other social networks. They are competing in a very crowded and fragmented market but I’d say that for $10k, they’re off to a good start. Total cost: $5000. Two months of work and $2500.

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