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AI Houses & Reverse Mentors

Start Up Blog

A tiny cohort of startup founders who shared ideas on tech before it was trendy. The Stranger from Romania – Raul Oaida – was my co-conspirator in creating the world’s first ever drivable lego car. This became a global viral sensation. And I’m calling it now – it will be a global viral sensation.

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Mission accomplished: Startup Visa Canada is here

Version One Ventures

oi and Cristian Strat, founders of Summify (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Two years ago , Danny Robinson, Maura Rodgers and myself started to lobby for a Startup Visa Canada that would make it easier for foreign (tech) entrepreneurs to start their company in Canada. In addition, Startup Visa will create good Canadian jobs.

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Bring Me Your Accents. Immigration Fuels Innovation

Both Sides of the Table

It also demystifies any assumptions that our founders were “puritanical” – they were anything but. He followed in the footsteps of his father who left Jewish oppression in Romania to create a new existence. It’s the global struggle for a better life. I know, I know … just read the book).

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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

Cracking the Code

Before answering this, let’s take a look at what happened in the global software and cloud market over the last year. Global market snapshot The world now has 10 software and cloud giants worth more than $100B, representing $4.1T Beyond the giants, the momentum continues for the public companies in our global cloud Index.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

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). At home we have entrepreneurs who think global day one. For both indicators we rank better than ‘entrepreneurial-friendly’ USA.

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Out of the Crisis #6, helpwithcovid.com

Startup Lessons Learned

Highlights from the show Radu on his background and what he was doing before HelpWithCovid.com (2:53) Radu on being a builder and his experiences with YCombinator (4:04) Radu's quarantine life and his parents quarantine life in Romania. (5:45) Eric Ries : You're originally from Romania, right? 18:06) The tech that powers the site. (19:22)

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The rise of European SaaS: apply now to be included in the Accel Euroscape 2019

Cracking the Code

Fast forward three years – Europe has proven that it can produce amazing global software companies. Accel has been on the ground in Europe backing the best founders and helping software companies go global for the past 20 years, believing strongly that the European software ecosystem would rise and reach the global stage.

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