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Mission accomplished: Startup Visa Canada is here

Version One Ventures

In 2010, Cristian and Mircea arrived in Vancouver from Romania to start a new company. This program is sure to raise Canada’s profile within the global technology community, sending a signal to the best and brightest that we’re open for business. The initiative was inspired by the immigration struggles of the talented Summify team.

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Is Outsourcing Exploitation?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

When my business partner Gideon Shalwick recently hired a full time Filipino at around $400 US a month, I had a long discussion with him about why it is okay to do this and why it is not exploitation. He had the same argument as Adam, which as you will hear in the recording with Jonas, I agreed with and supported. Well sort of.

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Out of the Crisis #6, helpwithcovid.com

Startup Lessons Learned

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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The increased cost of offshore development in India

BeyondVC

In our weekly partner’s meeting yesterday, we ended up in a discussion about the progression of offshore development in a variety of portfolio companies. In the end, the companies that were doing the best job with development were the ones that had their own operations offshore. I am already seeing that happen.

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You’ve graduated from the incubator cocoon… now what?

The Next Web

Incubators and accelerators have provided a tremendous boost to the start-up ecosystem, but the arena also requires another medium to step in for those accelerator graduates – one that helps them scale, go global, and gain critical traction to attract market interest and investment. Beyond Silicon Valley investors.

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THINK. TECH. DISCOVER.

Austin Startup

Now we see weird case of designer from Nigeria collaborating with APP developer from Romania building a product which Intellectual Property is registered in Netherlands and LLC registered in Boston. Global Innovation Exchange : Great place for people looking to promote their ideas and get funding. Just how cool is that?

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2020 Accel Euroscape: Decacorn Unleashed

Cracking the Code

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. And Europe has shown even greater acceleration.

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