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Why English Isn't Enough

Babbling VC

Be it within the company or external with customers or partners, English may work. My experience with over 20 years in Germany now is that no matter how well someone speaks English, when it comes to the hard things, they prefer German when in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

They keep the role neutral, like Switzerland, neither on the research side, nor on the operation side, but in between, like a mediator needs to be. Partner nations could see their own militaries and homelands subjected to the same threats and challenges that the United States would face. allies in the Asia-Pacific and elsewhere.

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Why English Isn't Enough

Babbling VC

Be it within the company or external with customers or partners, English may work. My experience with over 20 years in Germany now is that no matter how well someone speaks English, when it comes to the hard things, they prefer German when in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. I run the recruiting process for my VC firm, GRP Partners. He wanted to raise angel money.

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The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Steve Blank

We recruited two veteran Venture Capital partners to be part of the 10-week teaching team: Jon Feiber , at Mohr Davidow and John Burke of True Ventures. Since the first part of the lecture was about Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas, Osterwalder flew in from Switzerland to teach slides 20-76.

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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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[Interview] Meghan Fitzgerald, Author Of “Ascending Davos”

YoungUpstarts

It was in the mountains, in fact — in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum — that Meghan Fitzgerald realized she had been trading her health for her career. When I became a managing partner, aside from directing our strategy on where to invest, I also helped recruit board positions and management teams.