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AI Houses & Reverse Mentors

Start Up Blog

The Stranger from Romania – Raul Oaida – was my co-conspirator in creating the world’s first ever drivable lego car. Ross helped me understand social media, blogging, and the emerging business models the internet was facilitating. He truly led me to becoming an author and technology commentator. I’m excited.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

Again, much red tape even though David grew up in the US (he had since moved to Europe and married a wonderful woman from Romania). It seemed that back then the US government recognized the importance of attracting the best and brightest from around the world. We then moved our CFO, David Lapter, to the US. He’s South African.

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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 success was only possible because of the support of many people – from the whole Startup Visa Canada team to countless individuals and organizations including the CVCA , who is an official partner in the new government initiative.

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Re-imagining Enterprise Applications in the Cloud

Ben's Blog

Christian grew up under a totalitarian communist government in Romania during the 1970s and 80s. Proferi is to enterprise software applications as the United States is to Communist Romania. OutlookSoft was eventually acquired by SAP.

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Reflections of America this July 4th

Both Sides of the Table

I know we have a budget deficit and as an economic conservative I believe in smaller government. Every government form in England seemed to ask questions about my parents. My dad’s father was from Romania. In American we have people like Charles Best. Still, we are cutting back on public education. At least not in California.

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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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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

But I think its fair to say that the Dutch post-World War II welfare state isn’t exactly breeding the young and hungry entrepreneur you find in Turkey, Romania and Estonia. The Next Web and the Next Women) and several government backed initiatives. Rockstart, Startupbootcamp) larger and smaller VCs (e.g.