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Why English Isn't Enough

Babbling VC

If you do anything on our team above and beyond software development, English wont just won't cut it. My experience with over 20 years in Germany now is that no matter how well someone speaks English, when it comes to the hard things, they prefer German when in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region. Don't get me wrong.I

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Why English Isn't Enough

Babbling VC

If you do anything on our team above and beyond software development, English wont just won't cut it. My experience with over 20 years in Germany now is that no matter how well someone speaks English, when it comes to the hard things, they prefer German when in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region. Don't get me wrong.I

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

For example, today, designing a smartphone App that alerts you when you have lost your car keys isn’t a viable standalone company; today, a service-based local software solution to manage ecommerce for brick and mortar companies, even if it is profitable, is not an interesting technology investment.

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12 Questions: Meet Bojan Bundalo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

crowdSPRING Blog

Inspiring nature and its position on the roads between Austria and Italy in north-west, and Greece and Turkey in south-east (German, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman culture), made this area rich in various influences, specially in fields of art and design. What software and tools do you use? What is your dream design project?

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The Power of Defaults in Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

Often, they are simply the predetermined setting on software , and “are generally intended to make a device (or control) usable “out of the box.” ” Default occur and are influential in multiple domains, including but not limited to software. Consider the simple example of installing software. Image Source.

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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

View from Seed

Five international MBA programs also boast Unicorn founders, namely INSEAD (France / Singapore / UAE), IIM Calcutta (India), Vienna University (Austria), Tel Aviv University (Israel), and University of Otago (New Zealand) (Please note that I only included MBA programs, and excluded Masters in Science degrees). UCLA Anderson).

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Takadu’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product enables utility companies to detect leaks, bursts and equipment failures as well as alerting personnel of any problems through email and SMS. The World Economic Forum selected TaKaDu, a water infrastructure monitoring leader, as a Technology Pioneer 2011.