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AI Houses & Reverse Mentors

Start Up Blog

He helped me design the first ever corporate speech I delivered. Ross helped me understand social media, blogging, and the emerging business models the internet was facilitating. The Stranger from Romania – Raul Oaida – was my co-conspirator in creating the world’s first ever drivable lego car.

Romania 62
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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Leaders They Look Up To

Hearpreneur

Not just the gadgets, his focus on aesthetically pleasing design and making technology accessible to everyone are almost sure to have changed our lives in a good way. He first learned about the internet on a trip to the U.S. Now he is known for Internet entrepreneurship and is asked to lecture about it all over the world.

Romania 126
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12 Questions: Meet Emanuel H?rd?u? (Transylvania, Romania)

crowdSPRING Blog

Emanuel lives and works in Cluj-Napoca (Transylvania), Romania. I’m 34, I am a graphic and motion designer, I live in Cluj-Napoca (Transylvania), Romania, with my fiancee, Luciana, which I love very much and I hope we’ll get married soon. I was an animator and background designer for a tv animated series.

Romania 68
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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

Today, the end of Communism in Eastern Europe seems so obvious, but in my home country of Romania, until the day Nicolae Ceausescu was shot dead, I thought he would rule forever. In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. Final thought.

Romania 77
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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

The main prize of oDesk’s competition is a trip to the Silicon Valley with guided tours to the offices of major Internet companies, including Facebook, PayPal, Autodesk, and others. Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia. Have laptop – will freelance.

Russia 151
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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. Again, much red tape even though David grew up in the US (he had since moved to Europe and married a wonderful woman from Romania). He spent a bunch of this time in Canada. More red tape.

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12 Questions: Meet Jelena Mirkovic Jankovic (Serbia)

crowdSPRING Blog

Following my “artistic urge”, which is more powerful than orientation (what I would be when I grew up), I left to attend the High School of Art in Novi Sad (Serbia), where I graduated from the Department for Interior and Industrial Design. How did you become interested in design? And no designer portfolio whatsoever.

Serbia 68