YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 24, 2020
Remember that investors will not appreciate a business plan that features exorbitant salaries of the founders. Rustam Gilfanov is an IT company co-founder, IT businessman and international investor. It is also important for Rustam Gilfanov to develop charity projects in Ukraine, the largest of which are “????????”
VC Cafe
MARCH 4, 2024
All of this is in addition to the macro challenges that Israeli startups had to deal with in 2023 even before October 7th, including international investor unease due to the proposed judicial reform (that has since been taken off the table), Ukraine war, global venture slowdown ( US VC investments were down 60% in 2023 ), etc.
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David Teten
MARCH 5, 2021
(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. Patrick Collison , self-made billionaire founder of Stripe. Bill Gates , founder of Microsoft. Choosing a co-founder, and hiring the early employees is key to building a successful company.
Steve Blank
JULY 25, 2023
I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. The team working on Ukraine did not fly there for obvious reasons. Team Ukraine Click here if you can’t see the Team Ukraine presentation.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 17, 2017
The co-founder of Google wasn’t born in America nor was the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, WhatsApp, Yahoo! and the founder of eBay and many others. And what of our most revered tech founder — Steve Jobs? Our most famous current rocket entrepreneur — Elon Musk — was from South Africa.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 16, 2016
by Evan Varsamis, Founder/CEO at Gadget Flow Inc. Myself and my co-founders were just a bunch of young upstarts with a big idea. I applied this method to every single one of our hires and today our team consists of 22 people from United States, India, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Greece and the Philippines. The Beginning.
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