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

Cracking the Code

I would categorize these champions in two camps: the “Local Champions” and the “Global Champions”. The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. Why Eastern Europe?

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The Best Country to Start a Business | WSJ.com

Campus Entrepreneurship

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Three Lessons from the Coronavirus for Telecom Service Providers So Far

The Startup Magazine

At this point in time, it seems to be globally accepted that only urgent travel shall take place. This is not the first and it won’t be the last time we face a global pandemic. For a decade or more, big employers have been developing contingency plans and business-continuity strategies. Workforce Location and Travel.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I’ve developed an app that helps people achieve their goals through social and financial accountability. Our company is in the Czech Republic. I wanted to express the concept of world-wide luxury weddings and, of course, the diamond is the ultimate, recognized global symbol of promise. 9 – Also a Verb.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Steven Randall, Vonya Global ! #8-Provide And so, I wanted to develop a company that could solve this problem head-on. Sales can be really hard and frustrating at times — so, any way that we could effectively help them find the most targeted leads was something we wanted to develop. Photo Credit: Vaclav Muchna.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives. We wrote a whole new kind of development environment for writing it from scratch. And that's been remarkable.