Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I recently had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Vladimir Lempert CEO and founder of Spetztekhosnastka, or “STO”, a plastics design and manufacturing company headquartered in Dniprodzerzhins'k (about 200 miles Southeast of Kiev), in the Ukraine. As for the rest of us, we all win. Does Vladimir have his challenges? read more.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Or, if it isn’t about my daughter, knowing that it’s happening to other families in my community—the founders of the companies I back? Nobody cares about what's happening to the Uyghurs, okay. Of all the things I care about, yes, it's below my line." Of all the things I care about, yes, it's below my line." Genocide.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about their best business or entrepreneur turnaround story and here are the responses. #1- Everyone knows about Elon Musk and his great success in numerous entrepreneurial ventures, which are not even limited to electric cars and commercial space flight. Tell us in the comments below.

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Transformify

MARCH 3, 2022

Yet, reality proved us wrong more than once. Now, we face the war in Ukraine and the sad reality that millions of Ukrainians may have to leave their homes and seek asylum across Europe. Displaced People / Refugees/ People living in a war zone in Ukraine. Our partners in Ukraine can help you do so remotely. RebuildLives.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

When I joined, it was just 4 of us hacking away on crude systems with almost no budget. Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks. Having an hour set aside per day helped us stick to that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

Unfortunately, the rest of the world soon forgot about it. Then he started a company called PostEra, which uses machine learning to identify promising compounds for new drug development. In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. How are you doing?

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

While the majority of our company works from our offices (in NYC or Ukraine), we have a few remote workers at Chanty. Hiring developers in NYC is extremely expensive and in Ukraine, we had struggles finding great writers. It took us less than a month to find, test, hire and onboard our new writer.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

We asked entrepreneurs how they're incorporating CSR into their businesses and here's what they had to say; #1- Sponsoring charitable initiatives Photo Credit: Andrei Vasilescu I have always been passionate about incorporating CSR into my business. For example, in April of 2022, we donated 10 tonnes of aid to Ukraine.

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The Startup Toolkit

JULY 19, 2013

Four of us living & working under one roof, with an unhealthy peer pressure around working harder and longer. We went through YC in summer ’07 and subsequently watched Dropbox, Songkick, and Disqus leave us in the dust as we puttered along for 3 more years. I think this was in Kiev, Ukraine. Minor existential crisis.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

(During the Cold War we used asymmetric technologies in silicon and software to disrupt the Soviet Union’s lead in conventional weapons.) Perhaps more important than the technologies, these new adversaries can acquire and deploy disruptive technology at a speed that to us looks like a blur. Yet in the last decade the U.S. North Korea.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

What about me with my bald head? Then ran ahead to hide and spook us. Unlike nine year olds here he did not know about star wars and did not have a computer. He did know about Mickey Mouse, thank god. I was up at 13,000 feet sharing the route with young Russian speaking circus performers from Ukraine.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Today the sound of a computer speaking in an unnatural, monotone robot voice strikes us as passé. With that goal in mind, I recently experimented with two voice synthesis technologies: Vall-E , from Microsoft and Respeecher , a Ukraine-based startup. It’s the kind of thing I’ve thought about in the past, but couldn’t get to.

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Diego Basch

MAY 25, 2012

Many people are talking about IPOs and bubbles, because it sells. It’s like asking “are we in Ukraine?” no, I’m in the US. ” which I can answer easily for myself: [ waiting for location. ] no, I’m in the US. Are you in Ukraine by any chance? ?????? Some are big, some are small.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 4, 2020

She was born and raised in Ukraine and the Soviet Union. Asked about her favorite reads, Malysheva replies: “ Master and Margarita for fiction, Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris for non fiction, and The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups for my most recent favorite book. You received your B.S.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 17, 2016

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” is an old French saying that translates literally as “The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing” Before the Brexit vote there was a lot of debate about the trajectory of the venture capital markets and that has intensified considerably in the last couple of weeks.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 19, 2016

During the online courses you may be forced to hear some annoying voice of teacher, of course you can skip the course, but you rolled because at least you were interested in or you have to (here I'm talking about specail courses that you have to complete to graduate). So, you decide use e-learning or not. Good luck!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 16, 2010

The basic premise behind the type of outsourcing we are talking about here, is hiring people from other countries where labor is comparatively cheaper than hiring from your local country. This, at least to a business person thinking about reducing costs and increasing profits, is a selling point and well worth promoting as a good thing.

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www.businessweek.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Siri is an example of “the types of situations we are looking to develop: smaller companies using us becoming big.”. Until the new rules kicked in, Nuance charged mobile developers about a penny each time the users of their apps tapped into voice recognition features. Ukraine Tries to Sober Up Its Bears for Euro Soccer.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It can mean addressing the UN’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and thinking about the impact of your startup on wider society and the planet as a whole. We should all care about the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Before product-market fit… just care about speed of iteration according to your customer feedback.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). And before we get started, could you share a little about TCV and what got you into venture investing? So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. Welcome, David.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

However, we didn’t let this discourage us. It was a way for us to stay creative and it also brought in some revenue. It could prove to be the case in Britain if the fears about Brexit are realised. I hired our first editor as well as a couple blog authors to help us generate content faster. The Beginning. It was 2009.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Now, 150 days after October 7th, the Israeli startup ecosystem is once again in a tough spot. But here comes the narrative violation: despite the challenges, Israeli tech continues to power on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 14, 2009 International tour about to begin For my international readers: are you in Washington DC, Paris, Barcelona, London, Amsterdam, Malmo, or even Oulu, Finland? Come join us if you can. Any chance seeing you in Kiev, Ukraine? Want to learn more about me? Fascinating.)

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Development: using DjangoPeople and Elance a very international team was born. Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. And I would say half the effort, if not 75% is in creating the revenue model… Please do keep us posted!

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2023

Questions I ask Carol Roth: [01:44] This financial world order topic that you talk about. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Use a set of tools that took us over 20 years to create. What inspired you? [05:38] 05:38] You spend a lot of time in the book, unpacking these things that are happening.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. That’s not about aiming for the bleachers but leveraging experience to reliably deliver on the singles and doubles it takes to get to home base.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Im about to start authoring an idea and I totally appreciate your comment: only 1 person can author it. This enables to get us to a point where we were pretty confident in what the system should look like when we sat down to create the mock-up. Posted by: Rachan | October 4, 2007 8:51 AM Hi Rachan, We started on paper.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

My COO is a doctorate from Ukraine, where the economy has not treated him well, but he is one of the most hardworking and intelligent people I’ve ever met. A COO based in the US would probably demand $200K+ a year and equity options. Even those members of our team that are based in the US are working remotely.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Beyond these encouraging developments with our former Cold War rivals the US assumed a position of unparalleled military dominance. Putin’s Russia is intent on undermining the US and West in any way it can – aggression in the Crimea and Ukraine and destabilizing activities in Syria ; Venezuela and beyond.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Beyond these encouraging developments with our former Cold War rivals the US assumed a position of unparalleled military dominance. Putin’s Russia is intent on undermining the US and West in any way it can – aggression in the Crimea and Ukraine and destabilizing activities in Syria ; Venezuela and beyond.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For those of who you do not know what TED events are about. There were about 200 attendees. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). I somehow caught wind of this event while browsing my usual websites. I’m glad that I did. TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2015

It’s more about our celebrating what we love about our country than it is about winning a war. His family was from the Ukraine and Romania. It’s easy to vilify people who are different from us. My father grew up in Colombia and to this day still mostly speaks Spanish (about 80% of the time).

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For those of who you do not know what TED events are about. There were about 200 attendees. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). I somehow caught wind of this event while browsing my usual websites. I’m glad that I did. TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. With all the recent obsessions about “pivots&# most people don’t realize that the more powerful pivots are the unnoticeable ones we make every day through these exchanges.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 3, 2022

Think pandemics, political upheavals (the Trump presidency, Brexit, and so forth), geopolitical shifts (the continued rise of China, war in Ukraine), and environmental crises (fires, floods, droughts). The Startup of You is about making the entrepreneurial way work for you. The Old Way of Thinking About Careers. And impractical.

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