Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

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. Founders: Similarly, founders have a vast array of founding stories. OUR INDUSTRY. There was no Angellist.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2018

A Pawscout tag tracks movements and identifies lost pets with the help of the Pawscout App, allowing owners to share alerts and receive virtual updates from their online community of friends, family, and other pet owners. When we first launched our pilot a few years ago, a woman in Estonia found a dog with a Pawscout Tag.

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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2018

It is estimated that service providers like the Trinity Center and Sunrise Community Center spend roughly $10,000 annually on fees to recover identification documents, not including staffing hours. All of these spent resources are a huge set-back in the recovery process. Recovering documents is an expense to our service providers as well.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Hunie: community for designers to help them get feedback from their peers. Everbill: invoice and estimate service. Iconfinder: site for icons.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

image source: [link] If you are a startup co-founder in Central and Eastern Europe, when you hear about about US entrepreneurial communities, you usually hear of course Silicon Valley, but more and more often now east coast as well.

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Rob Go

APRIL 14, 2014

There was great news yesterday in the MA entrepreneurial community when Governor Patrick proposed sweeping legislation to ban companies from enforcing non-compete agreements. Four of our portfolio company founders are from other countries (India, Estonia, Croatia, and Canada).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

Unique Hotels is a small group lifestyle hotels located mainly in Tallinn, Estonia and Manor house just outside the city. Create a new community channel for customer interaction, provide updates, and generate news. Another thing to note is that all their prizes for different campaigns are in-line with AppSumo customer interests.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

But I think its fair to say that the Dutch post-World War II welfare state isn’t exactly breeding the young and hungry entrepreneur you find in Turkey, Romania and Estonia. In my view, we can do a better job of forming strong tech communities. We don’t have a ‘Paypal’ mafia, a Netscape brethren or an equivalent strong network in tech.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Elite Camp is a traffic and (mainly) conversion event held in Estonia every summer. Community of practice. It’s among the very best CRO events in the world, and of course in Europe. Elite Camp 2017 had an enviable line-up of heavy hitters and rock stars. Here are top insights from every speaker of this year’s event.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 15, 2012

For the 2010 and 2011 Lean Startup conferences , we offered the complete conference for simulcast so that people could join in from their communities around the world. These simulcasts are important community-building opportunities. (BTW, BTW, you can read more about why in Brad Feld's new book, Startup Communities.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

We struggle with this issue every year, because we strongly encourage everyone who can to participate with their local entrepreneurship community. Strengthening ties between entrepreneurs is one of our most important values. That said, there comes a point where that's not possible for everyone.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

” The role model for most of the international innovation communities I meet is Israel, the “ startup nation ”. In addition, HOF has backed 6 companies with roots in Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, India, and Russia. (In An increasing number of Israeli companies are now building their US presence in NY.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. If you're in town Saturday night, you'll want to stop by Ignite: Lean Startup , a community-run event that features a number of new voices in the Lean Startup community. Welcome to our fair city. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 27, 2012

Most people think that Skype is an American company (technically, now that it was bought by MSFT it is), but readers of this blog probably know it was started in Estonia and that Niklas went on to start his own VC fund. the UK startup ecosystem.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up. The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

The software is not difficult to build and the hosting element has become a commodity; the hard part is building a community. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. Jeff Atwood had a community of people built up from his blog. Building Communities. Distinct Communities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

For example, Santa Clara had a community-spread case early in March. If something like that happens, you want to close everything, because it's a community spread. So you have countries like Australia, New Zealand, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Iceland, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Finland and many, many more.

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