Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

A concept discussed during that time was “ glasnost ,” a part of the new Russia’s restructuring to provide more openness and transparency in information. Russia has evolved in a different direction, with tight information controls and state-run media. ended the Cold War with the then Soviet Union.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

From my vantage point as a business lawyer for entrepreneurs, one of the greatest frustrations for a well-intentioned company or founder comes in attempting to comply with all applicable laws and regulations without necessarily even knowing what they are. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed founders looking for quick answers and decisive term sheets in New York City, the reality is that I would be pretty far down the list in the Valley. Their employees?

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

This emerging opportunity reflects the urgency of keeping pace with rivals like China and Russia, who are furiously integrating commercial technologies like AI, quantum computing, and unmanned systems into their armed forces. A startup could land a contract worth up to $3 million within months of entering the defense market.

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VC Cafe

MAY 2, 2023

Theme 1: The Power of Generative AI The first AI talk was by Greg Brockman , co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. The first one was Sal Khan , founder of Khan Academy. It’s hard to summarise a whole week in a short blog post, but I wanted to share a few thoughts on key themes from the conference and what I learned.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 26, 2012

When it was over, Happy Farm CEO and founder (and serial entrepreneur) Anna Degtereva drove me to the airport and–for some strange reason–escorted me to the gate. As I approached the check-in desk, a very gruff Ukrainian customs official looked at my visa to Russia and said, “You cannot travel.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s worth considering the reasons why nations decline — they lose allies, a decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century.) neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia. Slides 35-37.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks. It was an absolute honor working with such talented founders Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis and CEOs Gary Swart and Stephane Kasriel.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 26, 2019

And, when confronted with a for-profit company that has a strong social mission, many founders and investors struggle with the profit motive. Boundless’ CEO and founder, Xiao Wang , immigrated to the U.S. Another Jewish grandparent fled Russia in the 1910s. Sometimes, life gives you an easy decision. million Series A financing.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

What makes an individual a great startup founder (versus an employee) has been something I had been thinking about since I retired. A Day in the Life of A Founder For those of you who’ve never started a company, let me assure you that it never happens like the pleasant articles you read in business magazines or in case studies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. However, in meeting some of the sports startups one of the things that struck me is that most of the founders who said they wanted to grow big hadn’t given much thought about how they would go about building size and scale. Outside the U.S.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

So in this post, I present the epilogue to The New Venture Landscape that highlights my take on what I think the venture landscape looks like today and what the implications are for founders, for GPs and for LPs. Implications for Founders. Too many founders still think that. The Epilogue. Seed is the New A. Well, yes they do.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Startup founders and investors across the world love The Next Web, and we love them right back. We’re teaming up with local partners who know the scene well – in fact we’re still looking for great partners in Ireland, Russia and Turkey. You can find a list of locations below.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

It also demystifies any assumptions that our founders were “puritanical” – they were anything but. While Iran & Russia are moving to deny gay people’s existents or diminish their rights we live in a country that accepts them as the loving parents and people that they are.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

The founders of wildly successful companies - with their world-changing impacts and their awe-inspiring wealth creation - receive much well-earned praise and financial rewards for turning their great entrepreneurial visions into reality. But what about those with 1-2 degrees of separation who also benefit immensely?

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 10, 2014

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News It’s less than a month to go until the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi kicks off. But if you can’t wait that long and you can’t travel to Russia, there’s a solution much closer in Austin. It’s the Austin Startup 2014 Winter Games!

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The Next Web

JUNE 8, 2015

The great thing about the project – which is growing daily – is the bluntness of founders’ reflections on their shuttered startups, with reasons ranging from the brutally personal (“We were naive idiots.”) to the geopolitical (“Consequence of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.”) The Autopsy.io

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 30, 2017

However, the full version of the software removes any restraints at a price that has made it a competitive alternative in Spain, India, China, Russia and Latin America markets. Hector Castillo, Founder and CEO at Noysi. Noysi offers a free version of its software that includes 10,000 messages and 5 gb of storage.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2013

Petersburg, Russia, from 8 – 11 July, 2013. As overall champion, Team EyeCanSee will go on to represent Singapore in the Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals to be held in St. They will go head-to-head with other student teams from all over the world for the grand prize of US$50,000.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2010

Actually, I’m a lot closer to Russia than I am to DC and that makes me an expert on Russia. My friends Kevin Mann (British) and Thanavath Jaroenvanit (French) – both of TechStars Boulder 2008 – co-founders of Graphic.ly – and one of my inspirations for the Startup Visa movement) are prominently featured.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

It’s using sensors to collect data about the movement of people, all forms of vehicles and bikes,” Herman Chandi, co-founder of analytics company CommunityLogiq, told TechRepublic. “A Skolkovo Innovation City in Russia has been recognized as an attempt to emulate Silicon Valley.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In 2011 they were on the cusp of bankruptcy when Russia’s ‘least famous oligarch’ Alexander Mamut rescued the business. He brought James Daunt, founder of Daunt Books, a small chain of idiosyncratic books stores, in as CEO who’s booksellers perspective has made the difference.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . We’re a crossover fund.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

In discussions with founders and investors, as well as interviews , I describe the role that games have played in my career. Napoleon failed in Russia because his supply chains failed during the frigid Russian winter. It’s become a somewhat quirky facet of my public persona: Reid Hoffman, game geek.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2012

The firm’s 53 freelancers and part-timers are now happily collaborating on a huge project, the EuraMedia 2012 summit , while scattered across the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia. Sara Sutton Fell, CEO and founder of FlexJobs , a website for flexible jobs, offers more tips for virtual startups: • Plan ahead. Ask the Expert.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 9, 2012

The founders of wildly successful companies - with their world-changing impacts and their awe inspiring wealth creation - receive much well earned praise and financial rewards for turning their great entrepreneurial visions into reality. But what about those with 1-2 degrees of separation who also benefit immensely?

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 17, 2016

We know that many of the best founders we see hail from countries within the EU and we want them to continue to come here, and similarly we want our partner companies to continue to easily source talent from the whole continent. Grexit, Russia/Ukraine and terrorism spring to mind as recent examples.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Limit the burden of social charges for start-ups Start-up founders have the option to select any country to start their new company and today, the burden of social charges does not make France standout in a positive light in the global tech ecosystem.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2024

Project ‘Sfera’ is a recent example from Russia. I’ll finish with another TED talk takeaway on the existential threat of AI, this time from Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of Deepmind, founder of Inflection, and now CEO of consumer AI at Microsoft. Time will tell. I’m not sure.

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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If all companies were essentially similar, but some through luck or the efforts of their founders ended up growing very fast, we wouldnt need a separate word. Google is not just a barbershop whose founders were unusually lucky and hard-working. Whats different about successful founders is that they can see different problems.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Neil Andrew, Founder of PPC Protect , has endured devastating click fraud: The whole reason that I founded the company was due to suffering a devastating click-fraud attack that existing technology just couldn’t stop. Ad Age estimates that $1 out of every $3 spent on PPC is subject to click fraud.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 13, 2010

Technology usage is no longer on the fringe, it is part of most people’s daily life, be it in India, Russia, Abu Dhabhi or Silicon Valley. Focus is key to successful execution and is why visionary founders with great ideas are often paired with more operational leaders. Small Eyes: Focus, focus, focus.

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Babbling VC

MAY 13, 2010

Put a founder from the States in this crowd or on stage and they won’t shut up about what they are doing and how great it is. Ask a German founder about his business and he’s more likely to tell you everything wrong about it and his market before actually trying to sell you on the benefits. They exude energy! Europe is large enough.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. The founders were tired of having to remember all the precious tips their friend were giving them regarding restaurants, B&Bs, shops, etc. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. Total cost: $5000. Leggetelo qui. [.]

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Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

PostoInAuto’s founder, Olivier Bremer, was terribly talented, but his business was not at a point where he could raise a significant investment. He was intrigued, so I connected him to BlaBlaCar’s founders who convinced him to join the adventure shortly after. Thus it is not only about the money.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

It was a rallying cry of our founders as they built a single unified nation from a collection of states. And with our country focused for two decades on fighting non-nation states – Al-Qaida and Isis – Russia re-armed and China has built weapons that have negated our strengths, matched our military, and threaten democracy around the world.

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