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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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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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How technology can disrupt a Government.

Start Up Blog

Any government is only all powerful as long as the system it operates under is stable, and the people allow it to continue to control its market. A Government is just like a business in many ways. While the government is a monopoly in most of its realms, what if technology could assist us to ‘go around it’?

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Key Insights from Every Speaker of Elite Camp 2017

ConversionXL

Elite Camp is a traffic and (mainly) conversion event held in Estonia every summer. Bob Ruffalo : How IMPACT Used the ResearchXL Model to 3x Conversions from Content Marketing. Hybrid Product analytics organization: Central teams for tools, methods, governance. Data governance – hated but necessary: Rules of play.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." Here's my conversation with Tomas Pueyo. He was not a famous author.