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My Commencement Speech?—?Life at Your Crossroads

Both Sides of the Table

His father, my grandfather, ended up in South America after fleeing Jewish oppression in Romania. So you need to build a network even outside of your company. Developing an audience gives you a bigger network, bigger knowledge and more power to get ahead. You may never have this audience but even niche networks create power.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

His father came from Romania. So my family is Jewish and very typical immigration story – his father left Romania at 19, had to get a fake passport in order to get out of the country, left and never went back, and left in the middle of winter and got frostbite. And my specialty was computer networks. It was all technical.

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Out of the Crisis #6, helpwithcovid.com

Startup Lessons Learned

Out of the Crisis #6 is my conversation with someone who not only saw that deficit but did something about it--literally almost overnight. You can listen to our conversation on Apple podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever you like to download. A complete transcript of my conversation with Radu is also below.

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12 Questions: Meet Clara Garnier (México)

crowdSPRING Blog

I have this odd habit of quoting old movies all the time, or some old TV shows only a few people remember so I get many funny looks during conversations and embarrass my teens (I think that’s cute and fun, I guess they don’t. I try to participate on crowdSPRING all I can and keep networking online. Gracias Clara!

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Join a conference simulcast near you

Startup Lessons Learned

Past livestream attendees have reported great conversations and networking. They represent more than 10,000 people total. If you're not attending the conference in person, consider meeting up with one of these groups to watch. Most simulcasts are free, although some charge a small fee to cover their costs.

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THINK. TECH. DISCOVER.

Austin Startup

Now we see weird case of designer from Nigeria collaborating with APP developer from Romania building a product which Intellectual Property is registered in Netherlands and LLC registered in Boston. Austin Sales and Business Development  — Great meetup, people with high insights on SaaS and people with great network in Austin.

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

thenextweb.com

Mikhail is now the Associate Director of Product at Merchantry, an e-commerce merchant network, after being introduced to the co-founders by someone he met while at ClickFacts. Follow conversation. Latin America. Middle East. Y Combinator’s first batch: where are they now? 5th August 2012 by Christopher Jackson. 2 comments.