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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

If you think so, please let me know what they are.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 34: Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken

Steve Blank

Steve : The first example I remember hearing about that was getting printing presses and Xerox machines into Poland during the Solidarity movement. Then the question is, will their governments allow them to use it and if not, are there workarounds? . We tell other governments, “Look.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Next, Ashwin Bhambri from Warsaw, Poland, pitched Resmesh , a concept that aims to create 'profiles' for people.

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The Internet Might Kill Us All

Steve Blank

The ability to copy and disseminate banned ideas undermined repressive regimes from Poland to Iran to the Soviet Union. In the 21 st century, authoritarian governments still fear their own people talking to each other and asking questions. One of the most effective weapons in the Cold War was the mimeograph machine and the VCR.

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How to Secure Temporary Startup Funding If You Don’t Have Investors Yet

The Startup Magazine

Also, Sifted reports that startups might struggle to secure investments from their governments depending on the financial situation of their respective countries. This was seen in countries like Poland and Hungary back in 2023. Why do investors not want to fund startups at times?

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SXSW Startups: Sceenic Connects Viewers

Austin Startup

Then, when I was running MTV in Latin America but my parents were in London, it was the Volleyball World Championship Final, Poland vs Brazil. government) giving grants to innovate R&D-based projects and grants for research studies, etc. My dad called me on the phone to watch it together, separated by 13,000 miles. In the U.K.

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3 historical innovations and the businesses they birthed

crowdSPRING Blog

By the mid-18th century, the Empress had decreed that vodka distilleries were the exclusive purview of the government and and in the latter half of the 1700s taxes on Vodka sales were responsible for up to 40% of the Czar’s revenue! Meanwhile, distillation of Vodka spread like wildfire to neighboring countries.

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