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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

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Vitalik Buterin is the founder of Ethereum, a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of fraud or third-party interference. and the other was in Greece. Thanks to Gary Hunter, CompareGolfPrices ! #18- 18- Vitalik Buterin. Photo Credit: Charles Cridland.

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Accelerator Spotlight: nudgem

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Founder: Stelios Kapandais. Get to know the founders. RH: Hello founder! SK: I was born and raised in Athens, Greece and moved to Florida to pursue a Master’s degree in 2014. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? Company: nudgem. ” – Melody Koh. Please introduce yourself.

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Learning This One Language Will Instantly Make You A Better Leader

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by Rafael Romis , founder of Weberous. Originally from Greece, Rafael lives in Los Angeles and when he’s not working at Weberous, he offers business and marketing consulting to small businesses.> In fact, the language I’m talking about doesn’t even involve talking at all. Why Learn It?

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

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Example: More than 50% of all youth in Greece & Spain (34% in Italy) are unemployed and if you take “under-employment” it is even worse. The world still has economic challenges that often aren’t perceived by many of us the tech world in our little cocoons of Silicon Valley, NYC or Los Angeles.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

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There are some excellent comments, especially observations made by Vikrant Mathur, founder of iFood.tv. Today Stathis Katinas from Greece, pitched CarRentalBookers.com , a business he founded with his partner Tristan Mcvean. You can participate in further discussion here. Indian Product Entrepreneurs Emerging. CarRentalBookers.com.

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Ellison Eyewear the Multi-Billion $ Sunglass Industry

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Ellison Eyewear offers designer quality sunglasses made in Greece using Italian components. Aristotle Loumis was born in Greece and grew up in Chicago, one of 8 children raised by a single parent. Aristotle still splits time between, Greece, Iowa, and Chicago, and refers to himself as “Greek born, city raised, and corn fed.”

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Supercharge Growth Without Raising Money

YoungUpstarts

by Evan Varsamis, Founder/CEO at Gadget Flow Inc. Myself and my co-founders were just a bunch of young upstarts with a big idea. I applied this method to every single one of our hires and today our team consists of 22 people from United States, India, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Greece and the Philippines. The Beginning.

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