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My Commencement Speech?—?Life at Your Crossroads

Both Sides of the Table

His father, my grandfather, ended up in South America after fleeing Jewish oppression in Romania. The right company and colleagues are better than the perfect title, role or brand name. So you need to build a network even outside of your company. You may never have this audience but even niche networks create power.

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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. And my specialty was computer networks. It was all technical.

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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 are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. Serious talent.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

At Andersen Consulting I had built computer networks and programmed in COBOL. The Europe goal was shaped by three random things: My father is from South America and his native language is Spanish (although his father was from Romania and escaped oppression there). I wanted to do more of the former, less of the latter.

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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) My name is Radu Spineanu. Eric Ries : You're originally from Romania, right?

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12 Questions: Meet Clara Garnier (México)

crowdSPRING Blog

I use to name everything around me since I was a little girl, I named all my pencils and brushes during my school years, I named my first car (the dragon) my first computer (Jane) and kept doing it so now I drive the Bug, work on Ruby Rodh my great laptop, and check. 12 Questions: Meet Dana (Romania). because is 9 a.m.

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Rebuild Lives #Ukraine/ Provide Work Opportunities to Refugees

Transformify

As the name ‘’ Rebuild lives’’ implies, the program leverages remote work arrangements to assist foreign businesses ready to provide employment to people living in war and post-war zones. Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, etc. Rebuild Lives goes even a step further. The Solution. Caas / Comapany-as-a-Service/ model.

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