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Transformify: The Sustainable Platform for Remote Jobs

Transformify

Traveling around the world, I met startup founders, forex traders, marketers, online shop owners, travel bloggers, Instagram influencers and digital business entrepreneurs of all kinds. It was a growing community of people who enjoyed their digital nomad lifestyle. Small cafes, family-owned restaurants and artisan shops flourish.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

In terms of diversity, seven companies in the new class have at least one woman founder. Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Everbill: invoice and estimate service. Iconfinder: site for icons.

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The Future of Entrepreneurship Hinges on Bringing People and Tech Together

ReadWriteStart

Many of these events can be isolating for startup founders or leaders of growing companies; without name recognition or existing relationships, they struggle. Carter and his co-founder, Michael Lovitch, established The Baby Bathwater Institute to provide entrepreneurial support they didn’t see available elsewhere.

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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

I’m thrilled by the companies we are investors in, as well as the founders that lead them. This is of particular risk if the founders of the firm never really worked together before, as was the case for us at NextView. Founders: Similarly, founders have a vast array of founding stories. OUR INDUSTRY.

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Our 7 favorite startups from the Wayra London 2013 demo day

The Next Web

However, rather than simply acting as yet-another TV guide, Tank Top TV, uses its proprietary algorithm to recommend content for individual users, as well as using it to push “good” content to the top of the list, Liz Rice, co-founder of Tank Top TV explained. It also has a map of known defibrillator locations.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Also, he is now one of the owners of Buggati, which is a huge success for an entrepreneur from such a small country as Croatia. 5- WhatsApp founders. One of my favorite business turnarounds is the story of the founders of WhatsApp. My favorite entrepreneur turn-around story has been of Eric Yuan, founder of Zoom.

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

Rob Go

There was great news yesterday in the MA entrepreneurial community when Governor Patrick proposed sweeping legislation to ban companies from enforcing non-compete agreements. Also, David, one of my co-founders at NextView also worked at this firm, as did some of our first investors and the founder of one of our portfolio companies.