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Can Ireland Offer Startups Something Silicon Valley Can’t?

ReadWriteStart

Ireland Can Help With Going Global. Russia, Belarus, England, Greece and South Africa. For all his country’s advantages – lower taxes and costs than Silicon Valley – O’Sullivan says he realizes that entrepreneurs with a good shot in the U.S. That’s more than top U.S. But we think we have extra things to offer.”.

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The increased cost of offshore development in India

BeyondVC

While a couple of our companies chose to use consulting partners to begin with due to lower upfront costs and better time to market, we found that over time (the last 2 years) that employee churn is becoming a huge problem in these consulting companies and making us less productive in the long run. What does that mean for us in the future?

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. Viber is quite global. Obviously, we index better in some countries (and worse in others), but it’s pretty much a global phenomenon. Viber is pretty small given the scope of what we do. Maybe someday. Eventually.

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