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Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: Web 3.0 & Social Dancing, Romania Emerging

ReadWriteStart

Florin Cornianu from Timisoara, Romania, pitched 123ContactForm , a company that competes in the same space as YCombinator's WuFoo that exited earlier this year for a $35M price, and was acquired by SurveyMonkey. Of course, the significantly lower cost-structure in Romania helps a lot. 123ContactForm. We hope to see many more in 2012.

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Top Startup Winner: Balodana

The Startup Magazine

Then in 2016 I found a dressmaker in Romania who created fashion-forward designs that were made to measure, and the light bulb went off! I traveled around recruiting a fantastic starting lineup of designer partners to build their stores on the Balodana marketplace, and I left my CMO job in March 2018 to build the prototype and the business.

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How to find the right cofounder

NZ Entrepreneur

I thought I could do everything myself and outsourced the development to a company in Romania through a freelancing website – big mistake! So if you’re a technical founder you should generally be partnering with a non-technical founder. If you are planning on doing this, I strongly advise against this route.

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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

During the test period, the candidates work out of the coworking offices of Transformify ‘s partners. arrangements can be outsourced to Transformify’s partners. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution. The candidates are hired as self employed or independent contractors via Transformify Recruitment CRM.

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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”. Final thought.

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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. ” “Okay, well you can be an operating partner or a venture partner.”

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Mission accomplished: Startup Visa Canada is here

Version One Ventures

In 2010, Cristian and Mircea arrived in Vancouver from Romania to start a new company. This success was only possible because of the support of many people – from the whole Startup Visa Canada team to countless individuals and organizations including the CVCA , who is an official partner in the new government initiative.

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