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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. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. You can register to attend here.

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Voice AI startup ElevenLabs gets unicorn status after landing $80m

ReadWriteStart

The venture was co-led by prominent investors including Andreessen Horowitz , former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and entrepreneur Daniel Gross, who were joined by Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, Smash Capital, BroadLight Capital and Credo Ventures. As a result, they set about designing a platform that could do better.

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3 basic rules for entrepreneurs who want to expand internationally

The Next Web

I’m often asked how the company I work for managed to successfully expand from Sub-Saharan Africa to Poland, a very different type of market, to say the least. It’s complicated but I can tell you one thing, we didn’t follow any existing playbook.

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How a community is born: The rise of Polish startups

The Next Web

Traditionally, Web companies in Poland were focused on the local market of 40 million people, which seemed big enough to scale their business. Three years later and Poland has got a number of well-funded startups disrupting global markets. Entrepreneur Europe Analysis and Opinion' This story continues at The Next Web.

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6 Ways to Make Sure Your Tech Startup Will Succeed in 2018

Up and Running

That makes it even more important for entrepreneurs to come up with viable propositions for their business. Nations such as Estonia or Poland have made a name for themselves as well. Rose of Gust, roughly 1,500 startups get funded by venture capitalists, and 50,000 by angel investors in the United States each year.

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How to become a confident public speaker

The Next Web

I lived in Poland until the age of 23. I moved to New York 10 years ago, where I’ve led several lives: construction worker, scaffold operator, waiter, office manager, digital marketer, consultant, corporate trainer, entrepreneur, professional speaker, professor and executive. Entrepreneur LifeHacks Analysis and Opinion How-To''s'

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

It was my first time in the city and I must say that I was immediately taken by the energy of the city and of the entrepreneurs that I met at the conference. This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland.