Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2021

Yet, I find them often jumping to the forefront, with many notable successes , including Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, and Arianna Huffington (Greece) at the Huffington Post. Look at the world as today’s global market. But it does mean that every move be made with a global consideration.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2018

Ellison Eyewear offers designer quality sunglasses made in Greece using Italian components. Aristotle Loumis was born in Greece and grew up in Chicago, one of 8 children raised by a single parent. Aristotle still splits time between, Greece, Iowa, and Chicago, and refers to himself as “Greek born, city raised, and corn fed.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Both are “global commons” problems.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Both are “global commons” problems.

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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Transformify

JULY 3, 2016

Global hiring should be easy - companies get access to the right people regardless of the location and people get jobs no matter of their situation. Greece followed. We removed them and created something simple - the Transformify global outsorcing platform. We love it simple. The earthquacke distroyed lives and homes.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 3, 2014

This is the central conclusion of the Scale Up Report and we see it every day in our own operations and at our partners. Moreover, the percentage of people who are migrants has held steady since 1960 at around 3% of the global population – now about 232m people. Spain and Greece, by contrast, have seen increases in emigration.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

In 2012, finally, we will see the first major crop of Indian entrepreneurs playing on the global stage. I can say this with confidence based on my first hand experience mentoring a number of serious and promising Indian product entrepreneurs in the 1M/1M program, one of which, Freshdesk, has just raised financing from Accel Partners.

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