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Estimating App Development: What Small Businesses Need To Know?

YoungUpstarts

Julia Kravchenko is a partner and a VP of HR in Qubit Labs , an innovative software development company with offices in Tallinn, Estonia and Kyiv, Ukraine. Don’t worry about this, it’s a typical work process. So, keep calm and enjoy it!

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GrabCAD’s Acquisition: From Talinn to London to Boston

Agile VC

GrabCAD today announced their acquisition by Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS). Hardi moved the company from his home in Estonia to Boston to be embedded in the deep CAD software ecosystem here (Solidworks – Dassault, PTC, etc) and was part of TechStars Boston’s second class. And thanks to Hardi I got to meet the President of Estonia.

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A blueberry in a bowl of chili or why any Founder should visit Austin.

Austin Startup

I saw what impact Skype had on Estonia and there are a lot of examples like that, how a role-model or a success story if presented right, creates a healthy competition and copy-inspired-cats around.

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How to Master PPC Targeting and Choose the Right Ad Platform

ConversionXL

But one of the challenges that we frequently find is that ad fatigue (one of the reasons why your cost per acquisition can go up) is much more severe here on LinkedIn than it is on Facebook. Search almost always takes the cake when there’s already demand.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). Seems like a hell of a lot of advantage to have, on top of a great founding team, when heading into a startup. Alex The critical stuff MUST be done in-the-house.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

Invites went up 50%; 35% lift in referral acquisition. Join us at Digital Elite Camp in Estonia on June 13–15. At ClassPass, they see referrals as important for bringing in new clients, so it makes sense to incentivize referrals. They tested offering 10 free credits for working out with a buddy. The good news?

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

One of my jobs in the past was consulting measures and acquisitions. And you need to look at the data very critically, because the other side of the merger or acquisition is actually trying to frame all the information in a way that is beneficial to that side and against your side. So you just shut down the country.