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Should Apple Buy Hungary?

Agile VC

I had read somewhere that Apple’s cash pile was equivalent to Hungary’s GDP so I tweeted out the suggestion that perhaps an activist shareholder should push an acquisition of Hungary rather than thinking small (e.g. For some reason the notion of Apple hiking the taxes of Hungary to fund a dividend recap just amuses me….

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK. Obviously if you’re in a customer support role, a sales role or a customer service industry this can be impossible. Our European campus was in Barcelona where I rented a villa with 5 buddies.

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5 Most Successful Products Ever and What Small Businesses Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

The Rubik’s Cube is a run-away success straight from the unlikely homeland of Communist Hungary. Lipitor, an LDL (bad) cholesterol-lowering statin drug with sales in excess of $141 billion , is one of the best-selling products of all time. Super Mario games continue to innovate and earn astounding sales numbers today.

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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

If you’re the CEO of the company that’s your executive team, whether it’s engineering, product sales, marketing, social media, and all these other functions, you need to have feedback loops, with checkpoints to track how well you’re executing relative to that plan. For example, we establish a plan for a month.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

having grown up in Hungary I came to the States over 12 years ago. Having seen the success of escape rooms spread through Hungary and greater Eastern Europe I had a feeling they would catch on here in the States at some point. Zoltán being from Hungary, had read about escape rooms being popular there and doing well.