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Can Ireland Offer Startups Something Silicon Valley Can’t?

ReadWriteStart

Russia, Belarus, England, Greece and South Africa. We have a network of 28 offices around the world that are at the disposal of our startups to make business connections and gain access to customers and partners,” O’Sullivan says. Enterprise Ireland has so far attracted entrepreneurs from the U.S.,

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How to help your startup turn a profit in 4 simple steps

The Next Web

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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The increased cost of offshore development in India

BeyondVC

In our weekly partner’s meeting yesterday, we ended up in a discussion about the progression of offshore development in a variety of portfolio companies. The problem is that offshore development has become so popular that the cost of doing business has increased since wages have been bid up and since employees have many job options.