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How to Build an All-Star Remote Technology Team

The Startup Magazine

Hiring a unicorn like that may involve pushing your search outside your region like hiring Ukrainian developers. This kind of companies, for example, can augment the teams behind successful startups in the Bay area while operating in Asia, Eastern Europe or South America. The problem is that A-level talents are hard to come by.

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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 80 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 120,000 members worldwide. Here are the largest flocks: Angelsoft.

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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. Rather, it is a organization searching for a business model (inside a company that’s executing an existing one.) Their copies of the Four Steps were dog-eared and marked with sticky notes.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

So we as VCs search for entrepreneurs/founders who have the whole package or as much of it as possible. 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). Few people have it. I was recently on TWiST with Jason Calacanis.

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Flocks of Angels, and All You Need is One

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 50 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 60,000 members worldwide. Or does it? I’ll come back to that later.

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“Visibility” — A Powerful Lesson on DACA and The American Dream from @LeonKrauze

Both Sides of the Table

As a Jewish person I know something about this scapegoating because it is the history of my people for 2,000+ years including the Pogroms in Eastern Europe that cause my family to escape using fake passports and wind up in South America (Colombia) in search of a better life. They decided to emigrate in search of a better life.

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How To Name Your New Company

Mike Michalowicz

How To Choose Your Company Name: When you hear Monster, you think — wait for it — job searches. But when the same car was introduced to Spanish speaking countries in South America, the car didn’t sell at all. The Right Way: A simple trademark search will identify if the name is already legally owned by someone else.

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