thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2018

Financial headlines over the past week focused on Turkey’s rapidly depreciating lira. Bitcoin was priced at a 12-15% premium on Indian exchanges vs US exchanges during that time given the increased demand. In order to protect themselves from such a move in the future, many people turned to the crypto market.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 21, 2018

Last week I wrote about how geopolitics can impact demand for public blockchain cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. Cryptocurrency can serve as a (relatively) stable store of value when local currencies are devalued or taken out of circulation – most recently witnessed in Turkey.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The problem with these visas is they are in such high demand that last year the entire cap of 85,000 visa applications was exhausted within one week of its application start date. An immigrant from Turkey, Serhat has founded and run various businesses in the United States with a great degree of success.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Actually, you don’t have to show up late to your child’s holiday play because you’re tying up a work project, or run off to check your email while the turkey gets cold. As you work toward your time off, it will be very important that you not respond to the demands of the day reactively. Set your vision. Make a plan. Stay the course.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 6, 2014

2) Don''t Let The Turkeys Get You Down. When Ronald Reagan left office, he provided a final note with words of wisdom for incoming president Geroge HW Bush: "Don''t let the turkeys get you down." And, believe me, when you''re a newly public company executive, there are a lot of turkeys out there. They demand results.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It didn’t help that I was vegetarian (wait, didn’t Indians eat turkey…oh wait) and spoke a weird language to my brother at the bus stop. How my 5th grade classmates thought I was Native American and that I was making up stories when I returned (from my teepee, possibly?)

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2018

The demand for eco-friendly products continues to rise with the increase in climatic changes. One client came to us with the problem of creating a bag that could hold and protect odd-sized products, like turkeys or cakes, from the store to their ultimate destination. As a pioneering CEO in the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 26, 2012

It took a few years – and a few thousand failed consumer internet startups – but investors have gone back to the basics and now demand that companies they fund have income, not just a lot of Web users or app downloads. Countries from Chile to Turkey have tried to cook up their own startup ecosystems in the past couple of years.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Inspiring nature and its position on the roads between Austria and Italy in north-west, and Greece and Turkey in south-east (German, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman culture), made this area rich in various influences, specially in fields of art and design. Every brief is the story for itself, and there’s really no rule.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Compare that to views in other countries, like Turkey, which averages 1.13 But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. Just 138 million video views happen in the United States despite a population of 329 million (0.42 views per person). views per person.

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Pascal's View

JULY 20, 2008

While the Pickens Plan may make a lot of sense, the website, and what I have heard of the Pickens message so far, omit a major element required for success– immediate moves by American energy consumers to reduce energy demand and increase energy conservation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Key Takeaway: How fast is fast enough for today’s demanding consumers? There's a restaurant here in town who doesn't have Turkey. They can never, they never have Turkey. Now it's like some sort of mythical Turkey shortage. You'll give you a chicken for free, you can't possibly get Turkey. We don't know.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2018

And so focus is one of those things that contributes to it but, at the same time, I would argue that in the environments that we work inside of today, it’s the ingredient that’s in the most demand and it’s the one that we so often have the least control over. One of my favorite apps for writing is called Cold Turkey Writer.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I don’t believe in cold turkey transition. That is how I became a brand in demand. That’s a good way to end up back in corporate America, so the number one question that I am asked as the SmallBizLady is why does it take 12 months, SmallBizLady? Lastly, promote yourself with care. Nobody wants to be sold to, right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. EB : If you go really back, I was born in a small village in South-east part of Turkey.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Markets include Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, the Arabian Gulf among others. “. Phoenix will act as a platform to channel Gulf investment into OurCrowd’s 220 portfolio companies, building on the pent-up demand in the UAE for opportunities in the thriving Israeli start-up scene.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

You think Turkey is going to be eager to allow the movement of capital it can’t track? And if you think the US government is going to allow wide-scale movement of money within the United States in which the government can’t identify the sources and uses of capital you’re kidding yourself. What I can tell you from my vantage point?

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