YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2012

Taking top spot in the Software Design category is quadSquad from Ukraine, winning US$25,000 with its set of custom-designed sensory gloves and a smartphone application called ‘Enable Talk’ that allows the deaf to communicate verbally by translating sign languages into speech. First Place: quadSquad (Ukraine).

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Vladimir Lempert CEO and founder of Spetztekhosnastka, or “STO”, a plastics design and manufacturing company headquartered in Dniprodzerzhins'k (about 200 miles Southeast of Kiev), in the Ukraine. Or Prague or Peoria. As it is, if we just let it be so, for the rest of us too. read more.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 17, 2022

improved) customer experience. Anita convinced customers to spend their hard-earned money on greener products at a time when it was very uncommon. Since her divorce, she has given away $12+ billion to >1000 organizations focused on gender equality, racial justice, public health, Ukraine, and more. 4- Jeff Bezos.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Here’s a guest post on what happened to him in the Ukraine. Only rarely does the teaching itself require tenacity, as it did late last month in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine was magnificent. As I approached the check-in desk, a very gruff Ukrainian customs official looked at my visa to Russia and said, “You cannot travel.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Teams are continuing their relentless interviewing of customers, or beneficiaries as we call them in this class. The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Teams are continuing their relentless interviewing of customers, or beneficiaries as we call them in this class. The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections. And it’s a definite win-win for the customers and the manufacturer. When Koum was young, his poor family emigrated to California from Ukraine. Thanks to Daivat Dholakia, Essenvia ! #24-

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks. I would frequently sign up and test out the new services as one of a startup’s first customers. Upwork had truly life-changing potential.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

For example, in April of 2022, we donated 10 tonnes of aid to Ukraine. It's a win-win situation for everyone involved—the customer gets something they love and wants to support, which makes them feel good about their purchase; and then they're also helping out someone who needs it more than they do.

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The Startup Toolkit

JULY 19, 2013

We’d moved the company from SF to London to be closer to our customers and I decided to stay there. I think this was in Kiev, Ukraine. It’s about talking to customers. We always thought things would get better once we raised the next funding round. Turns out that money doesn’t fix bad culture.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Student teams will take actual national security problems and learn how to apply Lean Startup principles to discover and validate customer needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Deliver minimum viable products that match DOD/IC customer needs in an extremely short time.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. You’re going out to acquire customers. So they have about 60 million customers now, and they have a view of the net present value of each customer when they’re onboarding them and their models to show it.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

I was up at 13,000 feet sharing the route with young Russian speaking circus performers from Ukraine. I thought this custom was strange and felt foreign. I wondered when that custom started in Ecuador and how diffident that is from the U.S. Now I related to that fish and I was also gasping for air. How different, I thought.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Still, he got his guys in the Ukraine to code something up. Well, it turned out the company was probably too early to the market--and while that gave them a lot of time to create the best technology, customer traction wasn''t happening nearly as fast as we were spending money on AWS. I'm fearing the day Yahoo goes "Oops!"

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www.businessweek.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Photograph by Oli Scarff/Getty Images A man uses Siri on the new iPhone 4S after being one of the first customers in the Apple store in Covent Garden. Startups had to charge customers a per-use fee—a very unpopular model—or cover the tab on their own. Ukraine Tries to Sober Up Its Bears for Euro Soccer. Custom Publishing.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

You can outsource your development to India, the Ukraine, Buenas Aires, or even Indiana. Did you not understand your customer's pain point well enough in your lean startup process? More recently, Jim and Vinny the founders of Yipit taught themselves how to code to get their service up and running, after working in investment banking.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Before product-market fit… just care about speed of iteration according to your customer feedback. Put your users first: pretend that your customers have a seat at the table when you design your product roadmap. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” Need for Speed, indeed.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

Myself and the other founders managed to develop our company and generate more than 200,000,000 visits, hire 22 people, get 3,000+ customers, and promote products for the likes of Creative Labs, Polaroid, and Sony. Communication with your staff and customer is key for sustaining and augmenting growth. The Beginning. Communication.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Any chance seeing you in Kiev, Ukraine? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? I think there are more enterpreneurs per capita here than anywhere else! September 15, 2009 7:24 AM Mikesaid. It would be great to see you in Madrid! September 18, 2009 12:21 PM max said.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2021

Originally from Ukraine, she spent seven years in Russia. Burushkina and her team built a platform that generates personalized growth marketing plans with clear personas, customer journey mapping, and a data-driven growth strategy which is aptly called “Growth Channel”. They had no choice but to stay. Development started in 2018.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. rfan622 How Listening to Customers Helped Us Raise $700K in Seed Funding Mariya Genzel. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Make sure you think through how you will administer the system, handle customer queries, examine user accounts, run reports on user numbers and website traffic, etc. Posted by: Matt | October 4, 2007 9:05 AM As a Project Manager, working on different web projects outsourced to Ukraine I disagree with some parts of the approach mentioned here.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

My COO is a doctorate from Ukraine, where the economy has not treated him well, but he is one of the most hardworking and intelligent people I’ve ever met. My procurement team is in China, my customer support team is in the Philippines, my COO is in Ukraine, my CFO is in Atlanta, and my legal team is in Chicago.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Why low-fidelity prototyping kicks butt for customer-driven design | by Andrew Chen – crowdspring.co/MJ8WYr. Why low-fidelity prototyping kicks butt for customer-driven design | by @andrewchen – crowdspring.co/MJ8WYr. Ukraine in flames: Putin’s inferno – crowdspring.co/1f4KAOT. 1f4FthA.

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2022

Rising inflation and interest rate hikes, growth in debt to GDP ration, the war in the Ukraine (and global instability), increases in prices of energy, changing consumer habits to a post Covid-19, supply chain issues, etc, might be all contributing factors to the stock market (and tech in particular) declines. Gil Dibner, Angular Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. The sales rep that brings back news from the front line that is shared with the office adds to our collective knowledge about customer needs, product design flaws or partnership opportunities.

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OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Are customers or employees directly impacted? But if your startup does not operate in Ukraine or Russia, then denouncing Russia does little (and Russia does not care!) But if we feel something, should we say something? Before you speak up, ask the following questions: 1. Mission relevance.

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