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10 Digital Startup Conferences You Should Attend This Year

YoungUpstarts

Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Its focus on collaboration and networking will introduce you to other founders who have been at the same stage in their business journey that you’re at now. Lisbon, Portugal. SaaStock 2018. Dublin, Ireland. October 15th – 17th, 2018.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

A quick look at the really nice sites developed in just a few months by companies like CircleUp, FundersClub, Bolstr, Seedrs, et al will show you that the base technical challenge of creating a marketplace/social network is not particularly difficult.

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[Event] Sandbox Global Summit Gathers Young Innovative Minds in Lisbon

YoungUpstarts

The recently concluded Sandbox Global Summit which took place over the weekend saw some of the brightest young minds gather in Lisbon, Portugal and engage in discussions over ideas that (one day may) change the world. We wish them all success!

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Pandere Shoes, Anchorage Startups, and Techstars

Feld Thoughts

The founders loved where they lived and put together a support team of shoe experts and designers in Boston, France, and Portugal. While Alaska is not a shoe capital, it is now headquarters to a shoe company addressing a global problem. Their shoes are made in Portugal.

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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

12:50): How have you adapted TransPerfect to meet changing global trends? John (07:00): Well, and you were kind of pre-internet, a pre global economy mean, so you needed people all over the world, and they were not as easy to find as they are today. I mean huge global companies, but they needed other things. That is the hardest.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. We’re 2.5 years in and still down 5% from the peak. What gives? And Social.

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Brazil is using the law to push innovation, but here’s how it can do more

The Next Web

in recent years: accelerate smartphone penetration, increasing consumption of online video and social networking, and boosting mobile ad spending, e-commerce, and more. Give young startups a global experience. The country can potentially follow a similar pattern to what we’ve seen in the U.S. One step forward, but many more to go.

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