The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2017

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. So, keep calm and enjoy it! Diplomas in Psychology and HR and 10+ years of experience make her one of the top specialists in the field.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2023

Worse, China will learn from and apply the lessons from Russia’s failures in the Ukraine at an ever increasing pace. US Congress must take Ukraine and China’s dominance in the South China Sea as call for action and immediately establish a commission to determine what reforms and changes are needed to ensure the U.S.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Coca Cola traps itself between Russia and Ukraine Politics. This resulted in the Ukraine embassy showing its concern for the illegally occupied Crimea region by Russia. Let us see some Social Media fails and disasters of 2016, so far… Create a LOVED brand. Start with an eCourse HERE. .

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2020

For instance, if you choose Ukraine with the abundance of quality IT talents as the location for your office, take a look at Alcor and their unique business model. With it, you will promote your brand locally, close vacancies efficiently, share knowledge with your new team easily, and overall create a more productive environment.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

As the global economic situation deteriorates amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and soaring energy costs, many aspiring entrepreneurs might be tempted to give up and wait for better days. But don’t give up! It is true that founding a startup in times of crisis may look more challenging.

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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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

It later opened offices in Dublin, Ireland, Kiev, Ukraine, and St Petersburg, Russia. The company’s early operations were based in Mountain View before it relocated to San Jose, San California in February, 2016.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2012

Taking top spot in the Software Design category is quadSquad from Ukraine, winning US$25,000 with its set of custom-designed sensory gloves and a smartphone application called ‘Enable Talk’ that allows the deaf to communicate verbally by translating sign languages into speech. First Place: quadSquad (Ukraine). Game Design.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 13, 2024

I’ve been meaning to share this full story publicly for a long time, but something held me back… In 2017 I was in Lviv, Ukraine. I went to Ukraine initially because I wanted to attend Eurovision, which was being hosted that year in Kyiv, Ukraine. appeared first on Yaro.Blog.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp’s founders, immigrated to the US from Communist Ukraine as a teenager. If this acquisition, cited as the largest venture backed exit ever, doesn’t change that view, I’m not sure what will. He worked at Yahoo, where he met his co-founder.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

I applied this method to every single one of our hires and today our team consists of 22 people from United States, India, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Greece and the Philippines. I had to be sure that we really needed one more member and weren’t just wasting our money. The key takeaways here are how careful you need to be about hiring.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Then there’s the war in the Ukraine, rising energy prices, inflation, climate change, pandemic and who knows what other curve balls will be thrown our way. The ‘easy money’ that was characteristic of the venture market in 2021 has gone away, and venture activity contracted 30% globally in Q2 2022 alone.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MARCH 25, 2013

I ended up hiring someone from Ukraine because he could work full time on weekplan but both were really good. Now I can use the app as a way to show the company’s commitment to personal productivity. Out of the three developers I trialled, two passed the app test.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 17, 2022

Since her divorce, she has given away $12+ billion to >1000 organizations focused on gender equality, racial justice, public health, Ukraine, and more. MacKenzie Scott the author and book lover who inspired and helped Jeff Bezos start Amazon has taken charitable giving to a whole new level.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

The team working on Ukraine did not fly there for obvious reasons. Team Ukraine Click here if you can’t see the Team Ukraine presentation. The team working on the Green Hydrogen got connected to the Rotterdam ecosystem and key stakeholders in the Port, energy incumbents, VCs and Tech Universities.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

My COO is a doctorate from Ukraine, where the economy has not treated him well, but he is one of the most hardworking and intelligent people I’ve ever met. My procurement team is in China, my customer support team is in the Philippines, my COO is in Ukraine, my CFO is in Atlanta, and my legal team is in Chicago.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

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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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Vladimir Lempert CEO and founder of Spetztekhosnastka, or “STO”, a plastics design and manufacturing company headquartered in Dniprodzerzhins'k (about 200 miles Southeast of Kiev), in the Ukraine.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 6, 2011

That’s right, I prefer writing code than writing words and yet it’s been two months now that I started outsourcing the development of TaskArmy to someone in Ukraine. I spent the first 8 months developing the website myself until I proved to myself that my idea was a viable business idea.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

And as we’ve seen in Ukraine, Russia remains determined to wage a brutal war to play a disruptive role on the world stage. Team 8: Ukraine Aid Click here to see the presentation. Team 7: Public Private Partnerships Click here to see the presentation.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2013

Ann comes from Ukraine. Ann Smarty is the search and social marketer, community manager and blogger at Internet Marketing Ninjas. She is also founder of MyBlogGuest.com , the free community connecting bloggers to guest authors focusing on high-quality approach.

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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? She is the Managing Partner and CEO of Sputnik ATX , an accelerator that funds and mentors early-stage startup companies.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

When Koum was young, his poor family emigrated to California from Ukraine. It's steadily risen to the most popular toymaker spot once more. Thanks to Daivat Dholakia, Essenvia ! #24- 24- Jan Koum. Photo Credit: Amar Vig. Koum read more about computers in California. By 18, he had amazing computing skills.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2024

Over the last five years more of my students have understood that Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine and strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China mean that the world is no longer a stable and safe place. Here’s why and how. This has convinced many of them to work on national security problems in defense startups.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I felt like hanging out in Ukraine for a bit, so off I went. As Amy and I sit in our office in Aspen and grind away, we are blessed with a magical view. A few moments ago, my EA Annie sent me a link to WindowSwap. It’s a treasure. The post WindowSwap – Travel Around The World From Home appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks. But it wasn’t until a little later when I spent more time with the freelancer side that I discovered the true power and potential significance of the platform.

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The Startup Toolkit

JULY 19, 2013

I think this was in Kiev, Ukraine. I couldn’t have done this without the previous 2 periods, since that was when I built the network I was now cashing in on. It also took about 6 months to learn how to sell myself properly and develop some missing skills. Lots of fun, lots of airports. Minor existential crisis.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2012

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. Ukraine Startup Awards, Kiev, February 19th. We promise drinks and great networking opportunities. Romanian Startup Awards, Bucharest, February 5th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

The updated list of locations is below: Streaming Sponsor Africa Cape Town, South Africa: [link] Asia Chennai, India: [link] Pune, India: [link] Europe Athens, Greece: [link] Barcelona, Spain: [link] Belfast, Northern Ireland: [link] Berlin, Germany: [link] Brescia, Italy: [link] Brighton, England, UK: [link] Brussels, Belgium: [link] Bucharest, Romania: (..)

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2024

Even today, the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine rapidly delivers weapons. In Iraq and Afghanistan innovative crisis-driven organizations appeared, such as the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. And armed services have bypassed their own bureaucracy by creating rapid capabilities offices.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 16, 2010

Let’s not forget, there’s nothing stopping an entrepreneur from the Philippines also hiring cheap labor from the Philippines (or India, or the Ukraine, etc) and reaping huge profits selling in American dollars on the Internet to a global audience, including Americans.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The newly launched chapters are Zagreb (Croatia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy) and Kyiv (Ukraine). As promised at the end of July , the organization has now announced the launch of five new programs across the continent, doubling its European presence to ten chapters across as many countries.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Hello from beautiful Lviv Ukraine, the town I presently call home. I’ve had a very busy 2017, traveling from Toronto to Vancouver, then Paris, Nice, Monaco, Lviv, Kiev, back to Paris for the French Open tennis, London, Valencia, Barcelona, Warsaw, and then back to Lviv. Traveling this frequently is not.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2016

It’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot. If you search Google News for something like “new startup accelerator,” it will return hundreds of headlines from all over the world.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Alexander_Dsign has been a crowdSPRING member since November 19, 2010 and is from Kiev, Ukraine. We are thrilled to announce that the August $1,000 cS award will go to Alexander_Dsign , who did the most to upgrade their crowdSPRING portfolio during the month of August. We are proud to have him in our community.

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