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Should Apple Buy Hungary?

Agile VC

I had read somewhere that Apple’s cash pile was equivalent to Hungary’s GDP so I tweeted out the suggestion that perhaps an activist shareholder should push an acquisition of Hungary rather than thinking small (e.g. For some reason the notion of Apple hiking the taxes of Hungary to fund a dividend recap just amuses me….

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CEO Behind Multi-Million Dollar Escape Room Business

Hearpreneur

Completely amazed by the indoor family amusement concepts like Dave & Busters and Chuck E Cheese, Akos decided that he wanted to establish a similar family entertainment concept in his homeland of Hungary. During my high school years, I spent an academic year in Burbank, CA as a foreign exchange student from Hungary.

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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

Real estate costs in tech hubs have skyrocketed. Huge leaps in technology have made seamless communication with remote teams efficient and cost-effective. Global internet bandwidth has exponentially increased while costs have become radically lower. But if you’re hiring from an African country (Nigeria, for example).

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How To Start A Medical Tourism Business

YoungUpstarts

Another important function of the medical tourism facilitator, besides functioning as a liaison between the patient and medical personnel, is to find an affordable package for the customer that includes costs related to travel expenses, medical bills, lodging costs, and so on. Hungary/Philippines: Advanced dentistry.

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SXSW Startups: Tunnelware

Austin Startup

It has the potential to help save time, cost and carbon. The three founders of DigitalTwin Technology met during the EU ICT 2017 in Budapest, Hungary. It is highly configurable and can utilize many different types of project data, expanding the possibilities for project teams and clients alike.

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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

However, the ever changing regulatory framework tremendously increases the cost and the administrative burden. If the visa, work permit and relocation costs are added to the equation, it becomes hardly possible to source the talent the business needs to thrive. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

Skype is probably the most famous of them, but there are a lot of other examples including Game Insights, Kaspersky and Parallels in Russia, LogMeIn and Prezi in Hungary and Avast and AVG in the Czech Republic. Why Eastern Europe? This low entry barrier should accelerate the pace of innovation.