ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2011

It gathered 120 hackers from Finland, Estonia and Latvia under the same roof and challenged them to go from zero to demo in 48 hours. There is a requisite for each team to have at least one developer (frontend or backend), a designer and a marketing person. Garage48 Helsinki , the largest hackathon in the Nordics, took place last week.

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Transformify

AUGUST 20, 2018

The CEO of Transformify, Lilia Stoyanov, said ‘’ An umbrella or contract staffing solution is perfectly addressing the needs of those businesses facing skilled labor shortages on their local markets. However, a typical umbrella solution doesn’t address the candidate sourcing needs. All visa, relocation, etc. About Generate.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 16, 2023

Ultimately we want to create a marketable product that can be sold and licensed to public and private health organisations. So far we have built a great collaboration network across New Zealand, Turkey, Estonia and most recently the UK. As a biotech startup we prioritise safety, clinical utility and medical compliance.

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David Cohen

JANUARY 16, 2021

I want to do this 1:1, instead of in social media marketing blasts. Those companies have a combined market cap of more than $185 billion today. But it will never be general marketing blasts from me. Equilibrium. Eucalyptus. Enlightenment. Extrapolation. Evaluate new economic models. Equine Wrestling Federation. Eat more tacos.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

This is BIG – Estonia has just become first country to allow for e-citizens. Just like corporations basing themselves in low-cost markets, humans can now do it too. Seems more important to me than a tricked up cooler. There’s hope for the internet yet. Welcome to the Sans Nation State economy.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2015

If time is money – and in the world of business, it surely is – then honing the bottom line whilst at the same time hitting the marketing message home hard and accurately is key to survival in an increasingly competitive and straitened internationalised business landscape. Europe as an export market.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Some of our most interesting companies have originated in places like Estonia (GrabCAD), Croatia (Farmeron) and Omaha (SkyVu), although all have either moved or have a significant presence in a major tech hub like SF, Boston, or NY. The VC market is shaping up pretty much as we expected.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Silicon Valley can frequently be too provincial in its views of entrepreneurship, strategy, and markets. In my previous podcast with my friend and entrepreneur Wences Casares, we talked about the ability of entrepreneurs down here to see global markets that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs might miss.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Kickfolio: service to help brands market their iPhone apps. Pick1: retargeting service through automated market research.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Email marketing is one of the fastest ways to drive sales of any online channel. It’s hard to build an email database of 10,000 people or more (which is how big it needs to be to really start seeing the power of email marketing). 20 Tips for Dramatically Better Emails – this post by GetVero is an indepth guide on email marketing.

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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. Venture Beat highlighted the former is “expected to more than double by 2030, with last-mile delivery’s carbon emissions in Europe alone projected to reach 5.5

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Big market and purchasing power  — if you want to be attractive to startups you have to create a big enough market that could become fast first users of new products. Here is what I took from those meetings, might be helpful if you plan to take your startup at some point to US market or exit there.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

We connect them to hundreds of thousands of potential new customers using email marketing, social networks, and display ad campaigns. Unique Hotels is a small group lifestyle hotels located mainly in Tallinn, Estonia and Manor house just outside the city. Establish marketing goals ahead of time to achieve desired results.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

A new survey by Adobe and Econsultancy finds that 52% of digital marketers consider the ability to personalize web content to be fundamental to their online strategy. It’s personalized! It’s no secret why Amazon does that: content personalization makes money. This is where content personalization comes into play.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The PPC targeting options that Facebook has available are different from Google AdWords, LinkedIn, Twitter, and the abundance of other PPC marketing networks you have available. Here are the ads they use on the AdWords Display Network… With PPC marketing, you’re also able to target other demographics like: Income levels.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Elite Camp is a traffic and (mainly) conversion event held in Estonia every summer. Market shifts. 11 epic content marketing tactics: Create epic content. Bob Ruffalo : How IMPACT Used the ResearchXL Model to 3x Conversions from Content Marketing. Complexity of attribution strategy = complexity of marketing strategy.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I quickly proved myself and was promoted to head a small sales and marketing team (6 people) in the company. Even though I learned a huge amount on marketing, leadership and business development, the whole thing was slowly eating me from inside. I had strong experience in marketing real estate online. I was 25 years old.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 20, 2017

Any government is only all powerful as long as the system it operates under is stable, and the people allow it to continue to control its market. Digital Residency – Estonia now allows people to become virtual citizens. A citizen who economically can participate in their economy, without having a physical presence in the market.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

They achieve product/market fit while based abroad, and then sometimes gradually move key business functions to the US and Western European tech hubs. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

They achieve product/market fit while based abroad, and then sometimes gradually move key business functions to the US and Western European tech hubs. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 29, 2016

Spam Laws, Email Marketing, and Compliance written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Compliance laws reach a global market, so let’s visit a few that affect any international email your marketing team sends. Estonia – Information Society Service Act. Sweden – Swedish Marketing Act.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

Incubators and accelerators have provided a tremendous boost to the start-up ecosystem, but the arena also requires another medium to step in for those accelerator graduates – one that helps them scale, go global, and gain critical traction to attract market interest and investment. Make your mark in new markets.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Easier and cheaper recruiting, with less attrition compared with the heated New York tech talent market. In addition, HOF has backed 6 companies with roots in Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, India, and Russia. (In In addition, two of our companies (12%) have female CEOs/cofounders.)

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

However, it still takes 81 days to export from Kazakhstan compared to 5 in Estonia. Emerging markets are still struggling to climb to the top 50 spots: China is ranked 79th and India is at #134. In New Zealand it takes one day to create a new company; in Suriname it takes almost two years.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 27, 2012

Most people think that Skype is an American company (technically, now that it was bought by MSFT it is), but readers of this blog probably know it was started in Estonia and that Niklas went on to start his own VC fund. the UK startup ecosystem. An example where policy can hurt innovation is copyright.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Not everybody can, especially if they need to run with the idea to get to market. The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). [link] steve Interesting article. Don’t know if I agree totally though.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

The important lesson in order to gain market share was that in order for new users to try Microsoft Excel, they had to be able to work with the files their coworkers were creating. It was the first internet company to lose money on its first day on the public markets. Marketing materials. What did you learn at Juno?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

digital analytics, market research). What to do with AI: Predict churn ; Identify which offers to send to an individual; Accelerate innovation; Personalize content; Account-based marketing ; Algorithmic attribution; Forecast future lift; Predict blame. Product and marketing teams should be involved. Tell Don’t Sell.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So really it is not just the English-speaking, but since you're talking about addressable market, I had a thought about it. And really the addressable market is not just the people, English-speaking, connected to internet, but rather I would say whoever is willing to spend half an hour reading an article about the coronavirus.

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