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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

Even some of the most prominent startup household names in Silicon Valley saw their demise last year — and everyone entrepreneur and startup face this fear. Similar to neighboring Latvia and Lithuania, Estonia, and more so its capital, Tallinn has become a playground for startup-hungry entrepreneurs.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. The main prize of oDesk’s competition is a trip to the Silicon Valley with guided tours to the offices of major Internet companies, including Facebook, PayPal, Autodesk, and others.

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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

And not just tolerated my fanboy love of YouTube but we grooved about technology, avatars, adolescence and all things Internet. Virginia recently wrote Magic and Loss , an amazing and well-received book about the Internet as art. Hunter Walk: The Internet moves at fruit fly generational cycles – always evolving.

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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

And not just tolerated my fanboy love of YouTube but we grooved about technology, avatars, adolescence and all things Internet. Virginia recently wrote Magic and Loss , an amazing and well-received book about the Internet as art. Hunter Walk: The Internet moves at fruit fly generational cycles – always evolving.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Redwood City, California’s Shutterfly, a leading internet-based social expression and personal publishing service, has acquired Israel’s Photoccino , a developer of groundbreaking technologies for photo ranking, analysis and organization. SHUTTERFLY ACQUIRES ISRAELI PHOTO SOFTWARE COMPANY PHOTOCCINO.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

His name is Tomas Pueyo. Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1 It helped them to come to grips with what was happening and hold their leaders accountable for action and inaction. T omas Pueyo : Yeah.