Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

Example: More than 50% of all youth in Greece & Spain (34% in Italy) are unemployed and if you take “under-employment” it is even worse. I believe that market conditions drive innovation as much as great entrepreneurs do. Think about it – most retailers can’t compete with the scale and costs of Amazon.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2014

We had to grind through a refiling of our S-1 which cost us a month. At the end of June I went to Italy for a week vacation with my wife Amy and my parents. ” I scrambled to find a flight home from the middle of Italy, got to NY by Saturday mid-day, re-started the road show on Monday, and we were public by the end of the week.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 23, 2020

KaviAR Tech is giving clients the tools to “dip their toes” in the water of AR in an efficient, cost-effective and beneficial way. Today, clients are discovering augmented reality, what it is and how it can help them. Our first clients have been able to use AR which was previously too expensive or complicated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

I informed him that we needed to translate the software into Finnish at a cost of $50,000. I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany. HR rules are local. Not following this advice can be very costly. Proceed with caution.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

“Choose a comforting or familiar name that conjures up pleasant memories so customers respond to your business on an emotional level,” Entrepreneur says. For example, a name like “Italiatour” for a company that promotes tours to Italy can instantly excite audiences about foreign travel. Avoid overused metaphors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

I informed him that we needed to translate the software into Finish at a cost of $50,000. I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany. Tags: entrepreneur international cultures challenges business. HR rules are local.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 27, 2013

In business the verb usually refers to tools that are created to make projections of sales or profits, but can also be used to predict anything from website traffic to manpower requirements to employee health care costs. Condottiero meant “leader of mercenaries” in Italy in the Renaissance.). This is as basic as it gets.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- To take knowledge and apply it to what is coming next. Amazing chefs and experts who want to share their cultural and culinary traditions with curious people – even if they can’t hop on a flight and visit Japan this year or Italy next year.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. Entrepreneurs, which by definition are stubborn entities are therefore finding creative and cheap ways to bootstrap their startups. Total cost: $5000. Total cost: $100. TheStartup.eu Meet Tipsandtrip.

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Tim Keane

JULY 20, 2007

I was in Italy a couple of weeks ago at the request of the US State Department to discuss angel investing with IBAN, the Italian Business Angels Network. We tell entrepreneurs that who they take money from is much more important than the relative price they pay for it. Fixed costs can be a real burden in a situation of cost overruns.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

At home we have entrepreneurs who think global day one. 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. The point is clear, we need more entrepreneurs with the ambition to build large lasting companies.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2018

Thanks to a new company helmed by Greek-American entrepreneur Aristotle Loumis of WearEllison.com , that worry will be a thing of the past, and everyday consumers can get in on his innovation via his outside-the-box crowdfunding campaign on Republic.co. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners? .

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

  It was simple   - Reduce costs and improve consumer experience for the large retailers.   I’ve been fortunate enough to be teaching aspiring entrepreneurs at Marquette University ever since.   I’ve been fortunate enough to be teaching aspiring entrepreneurs at Marquette University ever since.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

But entrepreneurs can be great spouses and parents. When I ran Rocket Science our corporate partners were in Japan (Sega), Germany (Bertelsmann) and Italy (Mondadori) and some travel was unavoidable. As a single entrepreneur I had a philosophy of, “ I live to work ” – nothing was more exciting or important than my job.

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Transformify

MARCH 10, 2020

Digital nomads were mostly successful tech entrepreneurs who had made an exit and could afford to work and travel, traders, marketers, photographers and the like. Coronavirus resulted in quarantine in many cities worldwide and an unprecedented country-wide quarantine in Italy. Valued at USD 2.75 These days GitLab is not alone, though.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

Esther was talking about problems and entrepreneurs as far away as Russia. I was living in Silicon Valley at the time of the panel, but I had been living abroad for 11 years before returning having lived in England, France, Italy, Spain and Japan as well as establishing physical offices in India. It was an “enterprise 2.0”

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JUNE 11, 2012

Let’s face it: designing responsively takes longer and costs more. Still, time and expense can be justified, especially when compared to the cost of trying to retrofit device-specific optimizations onto your design. There’s an obstacle much bigger than time or cost: it’s the obstacle of change. Change Is Hard. Lets grab a beer

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

On the one hand, a travel business can be fairly inexpensive to start, and you can often get away with limited staff and little upfront cost. Resources to help you do market research and determine your niche: Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. However, starting a travel business is a bit of a mixed bag.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 8, 2013

The only thing that kinda sucks about this place is that they don’t carry The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur or The Pumpkin Plan. From an HR standpoint, GiftZip.com cuts down the costs associated with buying plastic cards, eliminates the need to hold a burdensome inventory, and allows instantaneous incentivizing via email.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The only thing that kinda sucks about this place is that they don’t carry The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur or The Pumpkin Plan. From an HR standpoint, GiftZip.com cuts down the costs associated with buying plastic cards, eliminates the need to hold a burdensome inventory, and allows instantaneous incentivizing via email.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The only thing that kinda sucks about this place is that they don’t carry The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur or The Pumpkin Plan. From an HR standpoint, GiftZip.com cuts down the costs associated with buying plastic cards, eliminates the need to hold a burdensome inventory, and allows instantaneous incentivizing via email.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2012

If we look across history, the same underlying culture that created Silicon Valley is not that different from what caused bursts of creativity and growth in Northern Italy during the Renaissance or the Dutch Golden Age. It just manifests itself in different ways in different places. The economic result is not just about high tech businesses.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad. CellBuddy - Company Website. TVersity - Company Website.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. The parallels to the music industry are too obvious even though the industry players, the medium and the cost structures are different. I have a young entrepreneur friend who IMs me a lot.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. What makes 1M/1M unique?

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Each week we discuss the latest news, resources, and advice for entrepreneurs and small business owners. They’re more nutritious than the cotton candy or ice cream treats that you’ll find on the boardwalk and they won’t cost you an arm and a leg, or even a hand, to buy. You have some costs at the banana stand?

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

This is how we generated our first wave of downloads and it had cost us nothing at all. It cost us exactly $0. Italy, France and Germany are now in our top 15 download countries. Using the resources we had at no or little cost allowed us to quickly grab markets that are less well served. We didn’t invent this approach.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

A provider of low-cost health clinics across the country, Carbon Health was also on the frontlines when the COVID pandemic hit--and even understood what was coming long before most people in the U.S. Carbon Health is a provider of low-cost health clinics across the country. They had to decide whether and how to respond.

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