thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp’s founders, immigrated to the US from Communist Ukraine as a teenager. They later started a company based in Silicon Valley that became one of the fastest growing companies ever, with almost all of its growth coming from outside the US. He worked at Yahoo, where he met his co-founder.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 4, 2020

She was born and raised in Ukraine and the Soviet Union. Growing up in Ukraine , did you ever imagine that your life journey would take you to leading startups in the middle of Texas? In Silicon Valley, founders usually have a strong plan B. She is also the Managing Partner and President of Linden Venture Fund.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Here’s a guest post on what happened to him in the Ukraine. Only rarely does the teaching itself require tenacity, as it did late last month in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine was magnificent. Not if I had to spend two weeks in the Ukraine applying for a new Russian visa!

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. They don’t need an office in Silicon Valley to figure out what’s out there. Yet in the last decade the U.S. North Korea. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea.

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Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

The Next Web

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The Founder Institute , the early-stage startup accelerator that aims to ‘globalize Silicon Valley’, is doubling down on Europe big time. The newly launched chapters are Zagreb (Croatia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy) and Kyiv (Ukraine).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Not all hot startups are built in Silicon Valley – we’re seeing very talented entrepreneurs with big ideas and great execution all over the world. The winners will be announced at the various Startup Awards ceremonies in Germany, the UK, Ireland, France, Romania, Spain, Poland, Holland, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Denmark.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

One of my goals in creating the Startup Lessons Learned event is to foster entrepreneurial communities around the world, not just in Silicon Valley. For some of my thoughts on Lean Startup Machine, see A month is fifteen weekends and The real entrepreneurs of New York City.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. 114 submissions and a professional logo in less than a week. Development: using DjangoPeople and Elance a very international team was born. Total cost: $5000. Two months of work and $2500.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

My family was also Jewish (my father’s father fled Jewish oppression in Romania and his mother from the Ukraine) so in fact I am Jewtino. I grew up in a household with strange foods (arepas, platanos, tongue) strange music and a father who had no sense of American culture. But childhood sure didn’t feel that way.

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