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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

” Then we needed a permit to go unescorted, or something. ”But my credentials are for a television network. Distributed teams can work across multiple countries in ways that make the most efficient use of human capital. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.) . ”Why?

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. While the network was very helpful getting these startups together and introduced to investors, it wasn’t clear how and when these startups tested their “going global” hypotheses.

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Snowflakes in the Valley: What Happens When 40 Nordic Entrepreneurs Visit Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

Countries such as the UK , Russia and Finland are trying to replicate its ecosystem, to stimulate their local industries. This tendency to be more outspoken could also be seen in networking and pitching, where there was much less awkwardness than with Europeans. Silicon Valley is a hub. Bigger is Better.

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How We Grew Our Fashion Accessories Business To Over A Million Dollars In Sales

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Eventually, our biggest client we maintained was the Home Shopping Network (HSN), and we grew that relationship to be one of their top handbag brands. One of our top goals was always to have a New York showroom, especially one who had established relationships with the top accounts from Europe, the Middle East and Russia.

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Your Computer May Already be Hacked – NSA Inside?

Steve Blank

In Russia, President Putin’s office just stopped using PC’s and switched to typewriters. The microcode is distributed by 1) Intel or by 2) Microsoft integrated into a BIOS or 3) as part of a Windows update. Yet the one company’s name that hasn’t come up as part of the surveillance network is Intel. George Orwell.

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

You communicate, interact and network with each other in a way that’s unique in the history of our species. Today, China, Russia, North Korea and other countries have locked their citizens behind a great firewall. You’ve been in a university where information distribution in your classroom was not a democracy.

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The 50 Most Promising Israeli Startups in 2016

VC Cafe

Ironsource – Software Discovery, Distribution and Delivery Platform (Raised $123M). Taboola and Outbrain – Content distribution, discovery and recommendations (Raised approx. Plarium – Multi player games for social networks (Raised Unknown). MyHeritage – Family tree based social network (Raised $49M).