The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC is how much money you can spend to get someone to become a customer. LTV ­ CAC = ROI. Good salespeople are expensive.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 24, 2012

In the past few years just about every country with a high-speed network and a national budget has hatched a “startup ecosystem.” Russia, Belarus, England, Greece and South Africa. None has succeeded. Ireland Can Help With Going Global. Enterprise Ireland has so far attracted entrepreneurs from the U.S.,

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. Do you see Viber ever moving ‘up the stack’ and becoming a social network tying everything together, rather than a predominantly communications-focused service? Viber is pretty small given the scope of what we do. Maybe someday.

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