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Aaron Wens on the Lifecycle of Your Ocean-Going Vessel Investments

The Startup Magazine

The ship broker and financing operations must work together to create a feasible financial plan. Investors may be called upon to cover some of the cost of the ship in return for some of the proceeds of the sale. The ship is generally thought of as ready for recycling if the cost of repairs is outweighing the ship’s usefulness.

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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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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Italist is the essence of what we do: bringing online the experience of shopping from the streets of Italy. I then wanted to play off of the strong Hispanic presence in San Antonio, a feeling of familiarity & friendliness, low-cost, and variety, so “Tacos” came to mind. Italist is the result of Italian+list=italist.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

It was a well-respected business that operated in the city of Scranton for decades. More because I met my wife(Niki) who is also a linguist in Italy. And you know, you can't but reference Italy when it comes to coffee. Marketing, engineering, and operational assistance are shared between the two businesses I've formed.

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The Great Internet Stock Correction of 1997, or 1999, or …

Feld Thoughts

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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Many Startups Stumble on International Cultures

Startup Professionals Musings

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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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

The human toll a virus could inflict and the immense economic cost of the emergency response stayed with him. As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. This hypothesis might be the case until we saw the crisis in Italy. As a child, Alpha Lee lived through the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong.