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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

Today, the end of Communism in Eastern Europe seems so obvious, but in my home country of Romania, until the day Nicolae Ceausescu was shot dead, I thought he would rule forever. This reminds me of one of the most unbelievable vestiges of communist Romania: the so-called “Department for the Betterment of the People”.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

Today, the end of Communism in Eastern Europe seems so obvious, but in my home country of Romania, until the day Nicolae Ceausescu was shot dead, I thought he would rule forever. This reminds me of one of the most unbelievable vestiges of communist Romania: the so-called “Department for the Betterment of the People”.

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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. He grew up in Colombia, South America. ” I thought, “Nah.”

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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

Founded in 2007 by Ron Makavy, Micha Berdichevsky, and Barak Naveh, Snaptu raised a total of $9 million in three rounds: $3 million from Carmel Ventures, $5 million a year ago (March 2010) from Sequoia and $1 million from private investors, including Spotlab, an angel fund operated by former Israeli MP Neomi Blumental. source: [link].

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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. Just how cool is that? I know it looks awesome and it really is but it is also complicated and at times not fun at all. Why do you need Help?

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Janvest Wants to Fill the Seed Investment Gap in Israel (Interview)

VC Cafe

To learn more, VC Cafe interviewed Brian Rosenzweig, one of the managing partners in the new fund and the former marketing director at 21Ventures. pre-revenue/no prototype/mobile app only, etc). VC Cafe: What is the premise of Janvest and how large is the fund? Janvest: The premise of JANVEST is to give a wider base of U.S.

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Startup venture and alumni funds

VC Cafe

UiPath – originally from Romania, UiPath pioneered the RPA (Robotic Process Automation) category and experienced meteoric growth in recent years and raised almost a billion dollars to date.