Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland. 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.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g. A concept discussed during that time was “ glasnost ,” a part of the new Russia’s restructuring to provide more openness and transparency in information. 1/ Social Network Interference.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s worth considering the reasons why nations decline — they lose allies, a decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century.) neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia. Slides 35-37.

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Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 436

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Some of the readings for this week included: CRS Report on Space Force , Summary of the Defense Space Strategy , Space Force’s Capstone Doctrine “Space Power” , State of the Space Industrial Base 2020 , Space as a Warfighting Domain , Russia gears up for electronic warfare in space , Chief of Space Operations Planning Guidance.

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Technology United States Iraq Operations 284

Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

There is an ample supply of labor; a relative scarcity of challenging, career-building jobs for recent graduates of technical institutes and universities; and a dramatically lower cost structure for many initiatives as a result. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Capturing market space versus Russia, for instance. One of the subordinate functional areas is cybersecurity, which is a foundational aspect of any acquisition that cannot be traded for cost, schedule or performance. We are tracking 37 initiatives across DOD focused on four main areas. Designing in exploitability early in programs.

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Acquisition Technical Review Technology Security 284

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

For example: what are the implications of Russia having a life expectancy of 59 versus 61 for Bangladesh? For many mature economies like Japan and the US, the workforce will be older, healthcare costs will be higher, and it looks like we will see diminishing pension benefits. Only time will tell.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The cost of failure in the offline world is so high that even when the cost of failure is low (online), they don't want to take the smallest risk. " Let's look at the actual data by comparing USA and Russia. In Russia, that would mean figuring out how to be "communicators first."

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s worth considering the reasons why nations decline — they lose allies, a decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century.) neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia. Slides 35-37.

Technology 228

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 228

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

This emerging opportunity reflects the urgency of keeping pace with rivals like China and Russia, who are furiously integrating commercial technologies like AI, quantum computing, and unmanned systems into their armed forces. A startup could land a contract worth up to $3 million within months of entering the defense market.

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Transformify

AUGUST 20, 2018

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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. Compounding this problem of multiple new technologies is today’s reality that the DOD is facing multiple adversaries.

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Technology North Korea Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence 335

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

As the travel industry rebounds from the pandemic, partnerships between these various entities will become more common, creating one-stop shops to meet all needs, reduce costs and improve current services. Thanks to Cody Candee, Bounce ! #22- 22- Mainstreaming of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Photo Credit: Maya Mikhailov.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 110

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. Trip 1 to China to understand manufacturing landscape, potential partners and rough cost of goods. to understand distribution channel landscape, potential partners and rough cost of customer acquisition. Outside the U.S. Get seed funding in Australia.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2013

While cybercrime in Singapore is generally low compared to other high-risk countries (Russia sees 85% cybercrime rate, with China at 77% and South Africa at 73%), the sharp rise in losses from cybercrime is cause for concern.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Countries like Russia, China, Canada, and the United States are involved in drilling races, trying to capture as much of the crude oil market as they can, all the while implementing new energy tech innovation to improve safety, productivity, and environmental impact. Exploring New Areas.

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Saudi Arabia United States Offshore Russia 82

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. Compounding this problem of multiple new technologies is today’s reality that the DOD is facing multiple adversaries.

Technology 122

Technology North Korea Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence 122

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

In Russia, President Putin’s office just stopped using PC’s and switched to typewriters. After a particularly embarrassing math bug in 1994 that cost Intel $475 million, the company decided to fix the problem by allowing it’s microprocessors to load fixes automatically when your computer starts. George Orwell.

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Silicon Valley Russia Security Customer Development 335

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Buildings can reduce their costs by reporting energy use actively. Improving grid management and optimizing power production through different sources and distributed energy production are critical to cost management. Skolkovo Innovation City in Russia has been recognized as an attempt to emulate Silicon Valley.

Technology 60

Technology Russia China Iceland 60

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 26, 2019

The gas market is poised to expand given that this energy source is clean, flexible, cost-effective, and quite abundant. Today, the largest gas producers are the US and Russia, with around 766 billion m3 and 635 billion m3 respectively as of 2015, according to CIA’s World Factbook data.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

In addition, the competition for and the cost of hiring people, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, has gone up dramatically. So while the infrastructure cost and startup costs may have declined, the operating costs have increased. Increased competition for Series A means company needed more traction.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2016

election cycle, the ongoing refugee crisis flowing out of the Middle East, and geopolitical tensions with Russia, and it’s no wonder the Brexit vote’s got the world like… Hold up, you might be saying. In times like these, it’s tempting to play it safe at all costs. Mix in a contentious U.S.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are the buzz word in business for good reason. The internet has made it possible to have a global work force from launch date, and the same cost advantages that multinationals have had since they started exporting labour to China and other parts of Asia since the 1960’s.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Juniper Research estimates that click fraud cost advertisers $42 billion in 2019. Believe it or not, consumers who highly value particular brands click on competitors’ ads—knowing it will cost them money. For example, “Chameleon” is estimated to cost advertisers upwards of $6 million every month. They also cost more.

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VC Cafe

JULY 25, 2017

Encryption, while it’s important to us as consumers, can come at a cost of others using the platforms for malicious purpose. We give up privacy to avoid controversy. Controversy comes from authorities need to monitor communication to detect threats. In summary. But they’re also not completely private and vulnerable to attacks. Amazon Anytime.

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VC Cafe

JULY 25, 2017

Encryption, while it’s important to us as consumers, can come at a cost of others using the platforms for malicious purpose. We give up privacy to avoid controversy. Controversy comes from authorities need to monitor communication to detect threats. In summary. But they’re also not completely private and vulnerable to attacks. Amazon Anytime.

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Social Network Russia Mobile Japan 74

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Russia, Belarus, England, Greece and South Africa. For all his country’s advantages – lower taxes and costs than Silicon Valley – O’Sullivan says he realizes that entrepreneurs with a good shot in the U.S. “Of course, a good startup can get funding anywhere. But we think we have extra things to offer.”.

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 3, 2013

Or, you can kick back on some beach in Tahiti and sip drinks with those little umbrellas in them, while doing a face to face (ahem, Skype) business deal with a guy in Russia. You can live in a tent in a cornfield in Kansas and do business.

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BeyondVC

MAY 11, 2004

While a couple of our companies chose to use consulting partners to begin with due to lower upfront costs and better time to market, we found that over time (the last 2 years) that employee churn is becoming a huge problem in these consulting companies and making us less productive in the long run. What does that mean for us in the future?

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 17, 2016

Grexit, Russia/Ukraine and terrorism spring to mind as recent examples. So for me the only significant negative indicator has been sentiment, but given that there is little actual change I expect people will soon realise that their fears are overdone and return to business as usual.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

My grandparents were forced from Russia. I mean people out there don't realize the cost per click for advertising is going down. The customer acquisition costs are going down. MC : We tried to explain to them that throughout history that there's always been circumstances where you wake up one morning and the world is different.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I personally use coders online from Asia, India and Russia. there is the 7 day full functioning Free trial so you can test it again at any time mate It costs me a lot of money to provide this for free for 7 days to people, though the conversion from free trial to full membership is great, so makes it worthwhile etc.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. When you put those two things together, you get high-quality customers, high LTV, and acquisition at super low costs. So inflation is always one where it’s not fun. There can be all kinds of different knock-on effects from it.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Request for Quotation - Write and run an RFQ process to determine approach, costs, timescales and conditions under which each vendor would deliver, select a preferred vendor and a spare in case of any problems during contract negotiations. How much will this cost? But producing a professional and slick product costs money.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Many start-ups are going through ups and downs and this change would both incentivize them to hire more when things are going well and lay off less people in the downturns Examples from other countries: Russia reduced IT companies’ social contributions from 30% to 14% until the end of year 2017 2.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Of course the Russian aristocracy wanted to keep it to themselves and for several centuries it was only available in limited quantities and at great cost. Prior to this no one had distilled an alcoholic beverage of similar quality, clarity, and flavor. Drink up, friends… 2. The steam engine (70 AD).

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Poland New York City Russia Flash 68

www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. Total cost: $5000. Total cost: $100. With some great project management and a few crowdsourcing platforms. 114 submissions and a professional logo in less than a week.

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