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Our Interview With Richard Burry, International E-Commerce Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

Recently we visited Richard Burry in his seaside base of operations in Cascais, Portugal for an intriguing conversation about the keys to online success. This is why I like to include customers in product development and testing. Q: How important is it to understand what motivates the consumer?

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.” despite having lots of competitors.

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Pandere Shoes, Anchorage Startups, and Techstars

Feld Thoughts

The event fostered confidence that buoyed the team through enough contest wins to develop a prototype. The founders loved where they lived and put together a support team of shoe experts and designers in Boston, France, and Portugal. Their shoes are made in Portugal.

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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

The eight teams hail from all over the world – including entrants from Montreal, Toronto, Portugal and Bulgaria – and have spent the last three months tirelessly working away on their hardware-based startup ideas for the Internet of Things in preparation for today. Playground Energy .

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[Infographic] Best Business Climates Of The World

YoungUpstarts

In fact, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates are amongst the top five cities in the first world (based on the Human Development Index) that have the best business climates.

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The Best Emerging Real Estate Markets In Europe For 2020

YoungUpstarts

Lisbon, Portugal. There is a growing interest in Lisbon’s luxury property developments from German, South African, Chinese, Canadian, French, American, and Italian buyers. In this article, we are going to explore some emerging markets in Europe that are on the radar of property investors from around the globe. Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

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. And yet, most of us responsible for trying to develop foreign policy don’t come from that background” of technology and innovation. “We