The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In terms of diversity, seven companies in the new class have at least one woman founder. Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Fake it before you make it.”

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

image source: [link] If you are a startup co-founder in Central and Eastern Europe, when you hear about about US entrepreneurial communities, you usually hear of course Silicon Valley, but more and more often now east coast as well.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

I’m thrilled by the companies we are investors in, as well as the founders that lead them. This is of particular risk if the founders of the firm never really worked together before, as was the case for us at NextView. Founders: Similarly, founders have a vast array of founding stories.

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David Cohen

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Jon continued to give back to startups by co-founding f6s which has since grown into a very large and useful social network for startup founders. After one of Brad Feld’s trips to Springboard , Jon encouraged and contributed to the Mentor Manifesto.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Estonia & India) and even other cities here domestically (e.g. Having a place that a startup calls HQ (even if the majority of employees are physically present elsewhere) is a litmus test for VCs to gauge whether a founder wants to create a small profitable business or a truly transformative one.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Part of why I’m on this trip with Wences Casares (founder and CEO of Xapo ) is to learn (and share) a broader view of entrepreneurship, where the strategies of Blitzscaling can be applied outside of Silicon Valley and China, and participate in Endeavor’s critical global mission for building the industries, companies, and jobs of the future.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Estonia & India) and even other cities here domestically (e.g. Having a place that a startup calls HQ (even if the majority of employees are physically present elsewhere) is a litmus test for VCs to gauge whether a founder wants to create a small profitable business or a truly transformative one.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Our guest today is Dmytro Okunyev, the Founder of Chanty - a simple AI-powered team chat. Dmytro, many founders believe that in-office teams are easier to manage. Especially in small countries (Estonia is a good example), there will be a major shortage of talent in the upcoming future. Therefore, remote working is the future.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Starship was founded by Ahti Heinla in Tallinn, Estonia, alongside Danish entrepreneur Janus Friis – the latter was the founder of Skype where the pair worked together.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2018

Andrea Chavez, the founder Pawscout started the company as the first major innovation in the dog tag industry in over 200 years. When we first launched our pilot a few years ago, a woman in Estonia found a dog with a Pawscout Tag. Pets can be our best friends. Do you have any success stories you can share? .

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Rob Go

APRIL 14, 2014

Also, David, one of my co-founders at NextView also worked at this firm, as did some of our first investors and the founder of one of our portfolio companies. As an investor, we’ve benefitted from the ability of international founders to start and build companies in the US.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

And like this if you do it from the United Kingdom: And finally like this if you are, like me, from Estonia: All this makes buying for customers around the world easier as they can see prices in their national currency and don’t have to Google exchange rates. This is how it looks when you visit from the States: .

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). Bringing macro back down to micro – there are Dutch techies and executives ‘ kicking ass and taking names ‘ around the globe.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

These are often 100% US-based at inception, but in my experience they are more likely to both open an office abroad and to sell abroad than a company without an immigrant founder. Determined Founders. Being an international founder is a significant advantage if you’re looking to sell abroad. They burnt their ships behind them.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

These are often 100% US-based at inception, but in my experience they are more likely to both open an office abroad and to sell abroad than a company without an immigrant founder. Determined Founders. Being an international founder is a significant advantage if you’re looking to sell abroad. They burnt their ships behind them.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Their main investor was the husband of Anita Roddick (the founder of Body Shop), who passed away. Instead, I decided to package what I know about internet marketing and build an online course for small businesses in Estonia (that’s where I’m from). I sent an email after email after email. No replies.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Tim Schumann, Founder & CEO, Buddy Ventures , highlights that typically less investment capital is required to get into foreign startups at the same stage of development as a comparable US startup. . Founders’ determination. If you want to start selling abroad, an international founder is an advantage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko. Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, BlueSpark. Co-founder, Polyvore. Founder, Monsoon and Badmash. Founder, Tout. Founder, Crowdvine. mashagenzel How $40 Saved Us Nine Months and $2MM Paul Howe.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 27, 2012

from donations, which is something you can do when you attract the founders of Google, Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Steve Ballmer, etc who are all alumni of the school. How do they make the money back? the UK startup ecosystem. the UK startup ecosystem.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 29, 2016

Estonia – Information Society Service Act. John Thies is the CEO and Co-Founder of Email on Acid , a service that gives email marketers a preview of how their emails are displayed in the most popular email clients and mobile devices. Belgium – Etat des lieux en juillet 2003, July 4, 2003. Czech Republic – Act No.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson. None are in Silicon Valley, one is in New York City, they’re spread out across the world (France, Estonia, St.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Go beyond standard sources of voice of customer data ; better options are: Interview founders (the original “customers”); Thank-you page surveys; Usertesting.com; Mine sales calls; Mine support tickets; Mine Facebook comments ; Mine online reviews. Founder interviews can find the story, the value proposition , and the big idea.

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