Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A tiny cohort of startup founders who shared ideas on tech before it was trendy. He truly led me to becoming an author and technology commentator. 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.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 24, 2013

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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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We have three universities in the top 100 of the Shanghai ranking for engineering and technology. 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). The Dutch are an entrepreneurial bunch.

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Netherlands Technical Review Stock Silicon Valley 143

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 29, 2020

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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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. Before jumping into the list, let’s have a quick look at what’s been a very special year in many ways for the cloud ecosystem globally and in Europe. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit? What’s Next?

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

A few hours before he had told them, during a talk at Harvard Computer Society, not to come to him for funding, but to seek it elsewhere from individual rich people who had been involved in technology startups themselves. But what of those eight members of the first Summer Founders Program; Y Combinator’s “First Batch”? Latin America.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 14, 2020

What an incredible journey for this company born in Romania. This success is the testament of the hard work and relentless ambition of the founder, Daniel Dines and his co-founder Marius Tirca. UiPath and Daniel Dines are the perfect example of a company founded locally but scaled globally.

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