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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Winding Tree

Austin Startup

Last summer, Etihad Airways, the United Arab Emirates’ national carrier, joined the many airlines and hotels that have partnered with Switzerland-based Winding Tree to bypass intermediaries using distributed ledger technology.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

what distribution channel? Vogt Holding), PhD Mechanical Engineering (FAU, Germany), MS Engineering (ETH Zurich, Switzerland. what’s the product? Come up with ways to test each of the 9 business model canvas hypotheses. Decide what constitutes a pass/fail signal for the test. Personal Libraries.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. In addition, we had attendees from many other parts of the world.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter May 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

The International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, in its 2011 World Competitiveness Yearbook ranked Israel in the 17th place among the world’s 59 leading economies in terms of competitiveness. Sony Classics bought the rights to distribute the film internationally.

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Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is

Steve Blank

Other companies operating in small markets with little R&D resources in their home country (ABB, Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, Philips in the Netherlands and Ericsson in Sweden) pursued R&D outside their home country by necessity. They let companies develop products to launch in world markets simultaneously.

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The State Of E-Commerce Checkout Design 2012

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

Above you see the distribution among the top 100 grossing e-commerce websites in regards to the number of checkout steps they have. Smashing Magazines editor-in-chief Vitaly Friedman will be speaking at the Front End Conf conference in Zurich, Switzerland. The average checkout consists of 5.08 Lets grab a beer ! Smashing Job Board.

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