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Rustam Gilfanov: “The Business Plan Of A Startup Is A Test Of The Idea’s Survival Potential”

YoungUpstarts

In the post-coronavirus period, the demand for technologies that help businesses compensate for losses will only increase. In 2006, Rustam Gilfanov, together with his partners, opened an international outsourcing IT company in Kyiv. Collect and analyze information about the size of the niche you can occupy. Build a Financial Model.

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Pros and Cons of the Offshore Company for Software Development

The Startup Magazine

Hiring an expert from, say, Ukraine or another offshore development center may significantly lower the cost of paying programmers’ salaries, as well as totally eliminate the expense of equipment purchases and utility costs, whether the customer is based in the US, EU, UK, or Australia. Lower cost of development.

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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

All of this is in addition to the macro challenges that Israeli startups had to deal with in 2023 even before October 7th, including international investor unease due to the proposed judicial reform (that has since been taken off the table), Ukraine war, global venture slowdown ( US VC investments were down 60% in 2023 ), etc.

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Success Stories of Previous Winners at the Vernadsky Challenge

The Startup Magazine

Ukraine is a country rich in talents in the technology industry. Ukraine has never had a lot of investment possibilities for hardware startups. The Challenge is just 3 years old; it was initiated in 2015 by the Head of Google Ukraine, Dmitry Sholomko, and managing partner of Noosphere Ventures, Max Polyakov.

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Estimating App Development: What Small Businesses Need To Know?

YoungUpstarts

by Julia Kravchenko, partner and VP of HR at Qubit Labs. Julia Kravchenko is a partner and a VP of HR in Qubit Labs , an innovative software development company with offices in Tallinn, Estonia and Kyiv, Ukraine. Why don’t we make an app?”. Obviously, if you open this article you are also interested in creating the one.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 4

Steve Blank

We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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The Department of Defense Is Getting Its Innovation Act Together – But More Can Be Done

Steve Blank

From left, Skydio CEO Adam Bry demonstrates the company’s autonomous systems technology for Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks and Doug Beck, director of the Defense Innovation Unit, during a visit to the company’s facility in San Mateo, Calif. Even today, the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine rapidly delivers weapons.

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