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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

Gili Golander is a co-founder and CMO at Bazaart. When I started my startup journey two years ago, one word came to my mind whenever I thought about marketing: liars. As time passed and I took on the marketing role for my startup (while everybody else was busy coding), I started to see marketers differently.

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Think Big, Start Small: The Story of a Startup

Up and Running

The remaining two are in Brazil and on the International Space Station. Him and his team of technically-minded co-founders began with just a grant and the advisory help of the MBA faculty at American University. It’s an approach that is advocated today as part of the Lean Startup Methodology. Thomas U.S.

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Announcing our investment in SilviaTerra, a precision forestry startup

Version One Ventures

Today, we are thrilled to share that we’ve backed SilviaTerra , a precision forestry startup. . He has worked in forests all over the world, from the southern US to Armenia and Brazil. Zack co-founded SilviaTerra with Yale computer science student Max Nova in 2010. We co-led the $4.4M

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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SXSW Startups: Sceenic Connects Viewers

Austin Startup

Presenting in the Entertainment and Content Technology category at 3:30 pm on Sunday, March 11, Sceenic will talk about its Watch Together SaaS solution, which enables media companies to create interactive co-viewing experiences for dispersed viewers. Sceenic is the result of the learnings to do with co-viewing of SayYeah back in 2013-15.

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Founders Interview: Flash Pack

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Lee Thompson and Radha Vyas, the co-founders of Flash Pack , a lifestyle travel company specialising in adventure trips for solo travelers in their 30’s – 40’s. . Flash Pack’s co-founders and husband and wife team, Radha Vyas & Lee Thompson.

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Be a Benevolent Dictator (And Eight More Lessons For Getting Your Stalled Start-up Off The Ground)

YoungUpstarts

Here are nine tested and true tips and insights for getting the job done right: You’ll need to rule your startup like a benevolent dictator. I was thrilled that what I did employed 50,000 people and did business in every state but Vermont, with international operations in China, Japan, Brazil, and Mexico.

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