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6 Ways to Make Sure Your Tech Startup Will Succeed in 2018

Up and Running

Nations such as Estonia or Poland have made a name for themselves as well. Running a company blog where I shared case studies and stories from company life has been a smart move. Run a company blog where you share project news and show the company life at its funniest or most exciting. Manage your growth.

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I haven’t blogged about GrabCAD much here at AgileVC in the past, but we’re excited to be invesetors in the company. Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. Author howerl.

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Five for Friday v4

Start Up Blog

This is BIG – Estonia has just become first country to allow for e-citizens. Crowdfunding the more important things in humanity – scientific research. Seems more important to me than a tricked up cooler. There’s hope for the internet yet. Just like corporations basing themselves in low-cost markets, humans can now do it too.

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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

But there actually have been unifying themes (which I’ll blog more about another time). Some of our most interesting companies have originated in places like Estonia (GrabCAD), Croatia (Farmeron) and Omaha (SkyVu), although all have either moved or have a significant presence in a major tech hub like SF, Boston, or NY.

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Introducing TechStars London

David Cohen

Meanwhile, TechStars in the US had funded some fantastic companies such as Memrise (from London, $6M in venture funding), GrabCAD (Estonia, $12M in venture funding), and DocTrackr (Paris, $2M in venture funding) so we also became more familiar with the great talent that TechStars London could tap into.

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14 List Building Hacks to Grow Your Email Database Fast

ConversionXL

Noah Kagan shared this tip at the Digital Elite Camp conference I attended in Estonia this year. The tactic here is to maximise every part of a blog post to capture emails. If not, a guest post is where you write an article on somebody else’s blog – that’s it. Add a subscribe link in your email signature(s).

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Making MA More Competitive – An Innovative Way Around the H-1B Visa Cap

Rob Go

My friend Jeff Bussgang has discussed it in more detail on his blog here. Four of our portfolio company founders are from other countries (India, Estonia, Croatia, and Canada). Lucky for me, it was a lot easier to get an H1-B when I was applying for them than they are today.