ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. Here is what their founder Leo Mirsky told us in the early beginning of the collaboration: Marketing was a mystery to us.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Stef Lewandowski , co-founder of Makeshift.io, which has launched apps attending.io , hiremyfriend.io domain also references “input/output”, something that Courtney Boyd Myers , founder of audience.io says founder Kellee Khalil. My co-founder] Gavin thought of it, but really knew we wanted a.io “These new.io io” as well.

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The Next Web

APRIL 4, 2017

To kick this new series off, we had an inspiring chat with David Rodriguez, CEO and co-founder of CornerJob, a startup that runs a two-sided app for employment. CornerJob just landed the title of Spain’s fastest growing start-up in our Tech5 competition. But how did they manage to get there?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

On October 15, Capital Factory hosted the Latinx in Tech Summit, where over 100 founders, investors, executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the city gathered together for an inspiring and insightful afternoon. Despite not having formal coding skills or startup experience, Pamela became a founder by using Facebook as her platform.

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The Next Web

MAY 24, 2018

For the fifth year in a row Adyen and TNW teamed up to find the fastest growing companies in Europe’s six hottest startup ecosystems: the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, and Sweden. The winner, mattress business Emma (Germany), was announced tonight at TNW Conference Founders Dinner in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I thought I was pretty sell suited to answer that question because having grown up in Northern California but lived and worked in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain & Japan over 11 years I had seen quite a few societies and work environments. I wish I had 20% of her confidence, focus and leadership skills at 25.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Ticketbis, a Spain-based online platform where users can easily and securely buy and sell tickets for every kind of event, such as concerts, festivals, theater plays, art performances or soccer games – earlier last month closed a round of funding worth US$6.6 million, making it a total of $12.7 million since its founding in 2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

ShoeDazzle has Kim Kardashian as a co-founder / company as a spokesperson as well as Brian Lee who was a co-founder at Legal Zoom. This round was led by Kevin Spain from Emergence. Investors: Emergence Capital Partners (Kevin Spain), OpenAir Ventures (Ron LeMay) , with existing investors Steamboat Ventures, Voyager Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It was the closest I could get to Spain. I didn’t have someone willing to offer me a job in Spain. I thought if I could live and work in Spain I could become bilingual, but I never got the opportunity. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 26, 2021

From the start, we have limited ourselves primarily to startups within North America, with a handful of exceptions: Nexus Mutual and Drover (UK), Guesser.com (Spain), and Headout (India). We back mission-driven founders, those who will stop at nothing to solve a deep pain point that they know well.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On a macro level it has led some countries, like Italy, Spain and Portugal, into a vicious cycle, with billions of dollars tied up in overdue invoices. This is a last resort, and not advisable as it will brand your firm a poor paymaster and cause irreparable damage to supplier relations. Anthony Coundouris.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 26, 2017

DR. CARMEN HIJOSA Originally from Spain, Dr. Hijosa has a track record in the design and manufacturing of leather goods, selling through her own company and supplying key retail outlets such as Harrods and Liberties in London. As Director of Talent at Interplay, Mia saw first hand what it takes to be a founder.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In terms of diversity, seven companies in the new class have at least one woman founder. Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Fake it before you make it.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. This never ends well.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liz Elting In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liz Elting, the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. billion in revenue and offices in over 100 cities around the globe.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

No clear vision or purpose This should be the starting point for any startup founder, but it’s often overlooked. Whilst the tide is turning, there’s still a need to educate startup founders about the competitive advantage well-designed products and services can bring. Life’s too short to build something nobody wants.”

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

1- I credit my co-founder. I credit my co-founder Eric Frothingham with coming up with our name. In the 90’s, there was a famous TV spot in Spain from Renault tagging the new young generation entering labor market. Her picture is my office as an added reminder of the woman I consider our real founder.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 9, 2017

Recent speakers at the Gibraltar hub include Alex Capurro (founder of Easy Payment Gateaway) and Professor Daniella Tilbury (Vice-Chancellor & CEO of the University of Gibraltar). The tax economy at the moment is just 10% compared with the 25% in Spain, making it a popular place for business.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2017

In the lead-up to Tech5 2017 – the annual competition organized by TNW and Adyen which celebrates Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies in The Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, France and Sweden– we’re launching a series of remarkable stories of businesses that experienced extreme growth. … This story continues at The Next Web.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

I have lived (England, France, Italy, Spain, Japan & the US) and worked (Ireland, Germany, India) around the world. It also demystifies any assumptions that our founders were “puritanical” – they were anything but. I adore accents. I listen not only for the country but the region.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2022

It was supposed to be a light, positive announcement: Horizon Worlds, the company’s virtual world product that lets users create their own VR environments, was set to launch in France and Spain. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and CEO. The updated Horizon Worlds graphics – much better graphics, but is it enough?

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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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The Startup Toolkit

JULY 19, 2013

My friends were startup founders. So basically I now do a couple trips per month to London to keep business moving and then retreat back to Spain to give myself the head space to work on big projects. ” Founders' Anyway, I gave it a try, which led to a lot of startup layers in my life. I lived in a startup office.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We have a group of amazing founders from all over the world,” Blake Yeager, managing director of Techstars Cloud wrote in a blog post. startups from Spain, Taiwan and Ireland are […] The post Techstars Cloud Selects 11 Companies to Participate in “Cloud 2016” appeared first on SiliconHills. In addition to the U.S.,

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 16, 2018

I remember when one of our executive candidates called me from Spain, where he was on vacation at the time, and said, “You weren’t specific about something?—?I Years after writing this post I was having lunch with John Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods. what you plan to accomplish at Bazaarvoice in your first 100 days”.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2015

By Rob Nelson, Founder and CEO at Grow. The company plans to expand into Japan, China, Portugal, and Spain by the end of the year – marking only the beginning of their international expansion strategy. Netflix is revolutionizing the entertainment industry. With over 65.5

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

This summer, I landed endorsements by Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup, master marketer Seth Godin, the founders of BNI and GreenBiz.com, and several others for my 10th book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, forthcoming in March from Morgan James (and already available for preorder). #6 – Wonderful & Productive Summer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

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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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Startup founders and investors across the world love The Next Web, and we love them right back. Says Patrick de Laive, co-founder of The Next Web: “Europe needs real entrepreneurs to put itself back on the map again. Vigour and drive, the willingness to transform and develop are what’s required.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Voice Artisense (Munich, Germany) Deepblocks (Miami, FL) Intvo (Ann Arbor, MI) Sonavi Labs (Baltimore, MD) Wunder (San Francisco, CA) Alternates for Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Voice 3Space Makers (Conroe, TX) PIX Moving (Guiyang, China) UneeQ (Austin, TX) Augmented and Virtual Reality echoAR (New (..)

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

I am in Madrid, Spain this week with a group of MBA students on a one week intensive study abroad. The founders were able to build a high growth company that launched their own satellite into space using only self-funding of $250K from the founders.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Stock Quotes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

We once took a “vacation” in Spain with Tania’s parents but we were in the midst of an M&A transaction so this photo is how my wife & her family remember me on that trip. Many startup founders spend all day making tons of hard decisions both big and minute. Help encourage him not to. Also, pro tip.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 8, 2010

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Special thanks to our streaming sponsor Justin.tv for handling the actual broadcasts. Special thanks to our streaming sponsor Justin.tv

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

(This post was originally published on TechCrunch and has been enriched with a few quotes from the Blablacar founders) International expansion is a challenge any globally ambitious company will face — some sooner than others. For example, in my experience, what works in France tends to also work well in Italy and Spain, but the U.K.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 3, 2010

Im excited to announce the first six confirmed simulcast locations: Delft, Netherlands [link] Provo, UT [link] Boulder, CO [link] Chicago, IL [link] Barcelona, Spain [link] Vancouver, Canada [link] Please RSVP so our organizers can plan capacity accordingly. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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