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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Leaders They Look Up To

Hearpreneur

He first learned about the internet on a trip to the U.S. If I am to name names, Elon Musk for his bold ideas, Jeff Bezos for his customer obsession, Steve Jobs for listening to his customers as well as knowing when to stop listening, and not just these guys, I try to learn from the people with whom I interact with as well.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

I had two goals in mind: I wanted to be even more technical than I already was as a developer (I wanted to work on cutting edge stuff, which back then was the Internet – pre World Wide Web browsers) and I wanted to live & work in Europe. Yes, we had a few laughs about his name – hey, we were in our early 20′s.

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12 Questions: Meet Emanuel H?rd?u? (Transylvania, Romania)

crowdSPRING Blog

Emanuel lives and works in Cluj-Napoca (Transylvania), Romania. My name is Emanuel H?rd?u?, I’m 34, I am a graphic and motion designer, I live in Cluj-Napoca (Transylvania), Romania, with my fiancee, Luciana, which I love very much and I hope we’ll get married soon. 12 Questions: Meet Dana (Romania).

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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). I certainly don’t want the next generation of iPad-like innovation to come “with an Internet nanny filter called Green Dam Youth Escort.&# Do you? He’s South African. More red tape.

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

The Next Web

Let me drop a few names and you will get the picture: Adyen, Booking.com (acquired by Priceline), Distimo, Mendix, Shapeways, Spilgames, Takeaway.com, TravelBird, WeTransfer and Qandidate. We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden.

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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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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

His father came from Romania. So my family is Jewish and very typical immigration story – his father left Romania at 19, had to get a fake passport in order to get out of the country, left and never went back, and left in the middle of winter and got frostbite. By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet.

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