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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

My wife, Ann, and I took a trip this past spring to visit Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Russia. Topics of conversation included how to identify fundable companies, trends in funding, business plans, and pitching to investors. Tallinn is the capital of Estonia, located just across the Bay of Finland from Helsinki.

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How to Use Personalized Content and Behavioral Targeting For Improved Conversions

ConversionXL

Content personalization and behavioral targeting are the next 2 big things that are going to give you the conversion lift you want. Monetate has found that across its significant client base when it personalized experiences based on international visitors’ geo-location, it improved conversion rates by as much as 100 percent.

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What living in different countries has taught me about life (and work)

Austin Startup

From running around Manhattan in 2008 selling to restaurants while the world economy was in tatters, to the first hire of a startup based out of Estonia, to my current role in Austin, Texas it sure has been a windy road. Looking at my career thus far, it has not followed a textbook game plan by any means. Natives will appreciate the effort.

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Austin’s Technology Hub Can Hack Digital Identity for Homelessness

Austin Startup

Digital identity on the blockchain has already been used for keeping track of vaccinations in refugee camps, for voting in Estonia, and is being tested in cities and states all over the U.S for various government services.

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Chile, Entrepreneurs, Endeavor, and Global Lessons

Reid Hoffman

In our second conversation, we now turn to the topic of how blitzscaling works when you’re not in Silicon Valley or China. The small domestic market in Estonia and the fragmented nature of the market in Europe changed from a disadvantage to an advantage for launching Skype.

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14 List Building Hacks to Grow Your Email Database Fast

ConversionXL

The challenge with this method is that even if you can get a cost-per-subscriber of $5 (that’s $1 per click and a 20% conversion rate on your landing page) you’ll need to spend $50k to generate a 10,000 person database. If your cost-per-conversion is $10, then it will cost you $100k. A/B testing of messaging.

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

The Next Web

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Qual Canal: service that allows you to track conversations about TV shows in social media. Pick1: retargeting service through automated market research.

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