crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Nausika lives and works in Athens Greece. … it’s pronounced Nafsika) and I come from Greece. I live and work in Athens which is Greece’s capital. How has the economy affected the design industry in Greece? Of course it’s no secret that Greece is in a tight spot these past 3-4 years.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Mykonos, Greece. First we take a look at the iconic Greek island of Mykonos, secondly we take a look at Marbella’s “Golden Mile” in Spain and at last we will reveal why Monaco is such a hot spot for rich people, sports stars and start-up entrepreneurs.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2014

I’m planning on going to Greece with my family this summer, so obviously the first stop is to Google “Greek travel”. This page tells me nothing about what a vacation to Greece might be like, and if my family hadn’t already made up their minds about going to Greece, we might give up on Greece all-together (think about that for a second) .

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Greece Customer eCommerce Design 107

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2014

I’m planning on going to Greece with my family this summer, so obviously the first stop is to Google “Greek travel”. This page tells me nothing about what a vacation to Greece might be like, and if my family hadn’t already made up their minds about going to Greece, we might give up on Greece all-together (think about that for a second) .

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Greece Customer eCommerce Design 98

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2014

I’m planning on going to Greece with my family this summer, so obviously the first stop is to Google “Greek travel”. This page tells me nothing about what a vacation to Greece might be like, and if my family hadn’t already made up their minds about going to Greece, we might give up on Greece all-together (think about that for a second) .

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Greece Customer eCommerce Design 82

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2013

The world where I order new leather seat covers for my car, from Greece, on Ebay, and at a fraction of the price of what the dealership is asking. The world where, with a click of a button on my phone, I can buy a mobile app that sends me my text messages as e-mails (but don't ask me why I want this).

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 17, 2022

and the other was in Greece. Photo Credit: Robert Calderon. In 2003, Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis were friends who wanted to work together even though one of them was in the U.S. oDesk merged with Elance in 2013 to create Elance-oDesk and Upwork was formed 18 months after.

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View from Seed

JULY 19, 2022

SK: I was born and raised in Athens, Greece and moved to Florida to pursue a Master’s degree in 2014. We like to think of it as transferring wealth from the pockets of big tech companies to those of the retailers and brands we are working with. Get to know the founders. RH: Hello founder! Please introduce yourself.

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deal architect

APRIL 16, 2014

Mexico Technology on the ICE Train – Germany Shipping ice cream globally – US, China Big Data of Long Lives – Italy, Greece, Japan Nokia alumni. Innovation from around the globe'' iElevation – Nepal A museum or a library? Globalization and Technology'

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2013

On the other hand, much of Europe is languishing in recession – Portugal, Spain and Greece bring up the rear as three of the five cities with the worst business climates.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 7, 2013

Black Cat Design is based in Athens, Greece and actually teaches graphic design, typography, and multimedia design. Satya comes to us from Indonesia and has over 14 years of IT and website development experience. They like to focus on excellency and great experience. We’re happy to have you on board!

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

State of Web Design in Greece – [link]. Creating HTML Emails – How To And Design Inspiration – [link]. Designing For The Future Web – [link]. Creating Web Design Wireframes: Tools, Resources and Best Practices – [link]. Unconventional Website Designs – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Wine Outlet is a company based in Athens, Greece that was founded in 2016. Nannuka was founded in 2014 and within a year became a leading child care online platform in Greece and all Europe. Is a lawyer firm based in Manchester city of the United Kingdom. Wine Outlet. Tannico is a wine retailer based in Italy that was founded in 2012.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

With huge unemployment rates in countries like Spain, Greece and Portugal, coupled with risk-averseness and impractical education this leads to a circle of hopelessness. The colleges that tend to have work placement initiatives prepare students better for hands-on work, but are “less reputable” than the research-based universities.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

But Blank and the teaching team encouraged the students to keep “getting outside the building” and iterating their MVP – particularly with refugees themselves and the first responders tasked with handling corpses in front-line countries like Greece and Italy.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

But Blank and the teaching team encouraged the students to keep “getting outside the building” and iterating their MVP – particularly with refugees themselves and the first responders tasked with handling corpses in front-line countries like Greece and Italy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

12 Questions: Meet Nausika Georgakopoulou (Greece) – crowdspring.co/15u9zNy. Showcase Of Amazing Photoshop Food Tutorials – crowdspring.co/18DeIUd. 10 MORE Illustrator Tips, Tricks & Tools – crowdspring.co/18EmWFE. “Too many designers are designing to impress their peers rather than address real business problems.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 4, 2024

Let's go back to ancient Greece, which I do in the book. I mean, Matt Beane (13:56): Yes. And so I think the fair thing to say is the problem I'm describing has been around since the advent of language, so about 160,000 years old. And an expert doesn't need mentee or an apprentice quite as much.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

While David Skibbins, the author of Becoming a Life Coach , points to the origins of personal coaching dating back to Ancient Greece, he notes that it has taken a little longer for the industry to fully bloom, thanks in part to the rise (and partial fall) of the corporate culture of business mentoring.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

The book starts in Dallas, takes us to Iceland, to Greece, to Ireland, to Germany, and finally back to the California. If you want to understand what is going on in Europe, especially Greece, Ireland, and Germany, how it happened, why it matters, and where it might go, read this book.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Just this past week, we used ProductionHUB to find gear and crew in Athens, Greece!”. Now that I know about ProductionHUB ’s Request Engine , I let them do the searching for me,” says MaryElla Collins, office manager at Odyssey Creative, which does media production work for companies like AT&T, MTV and Fidelity Financial.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Spain and Greece, by contrast, have seen increases in emigration. Most migrants are in search of better economic opportunity. Hence they head for countries that are doing well. That’s why migration has been rising in the UK recently whilst on average worldwide it has been falling. These tides will turn of their own accord.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

And the “Uber of Greece” is in Greece – not exactly the next big market. I know we romanticize the LGBT entrepreneur making an app for the LGBT community, but too many of our ideas are “ghettoized” and not seen as “big ideas”. You can make the next SnapChat – not just the next (blank) for African-Americans. Think bigger!

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2012

“Barack Obama’s address this evening touches more than just folks from the United States,” says Dunne, who first co-founded Babelverse in Athens, Greece. Babelverse recently emerged with top honors at LeWeb’11 , the internationally renowned technology conference based in Paris, France.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2020

Given this trend of some of the leading industrialists and thinkers supporting and promoting leisure in the early 20th century we should now be living in a culture which, similar to say Ancient Greece and Rome, values leisure highly and sees busyness actually as a form of laziness and lack of time management and deep reflective thought.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 13, 2017

Originally from Greece, Rafael lives in Los Angeles and when he’s not working at Weberous, he offers business and marketing consulting to small businesses.> It doesn’t take long to learn and it’s an immediately useful skill to have that will give your leadership a boost.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 11, 2024

Well, seeing as I'm Greek rafti is, or Rafti actually in Greek is a small town in the mountains of Peloponnesian, Greece where my dad was from and where I hearken from my relatives. 01:09): So I'm always curious about names being of names, business names. So Rafti advisors, what's the rafti?

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Up and Running

JUNE 15, 2017

The solution, designed by the Athens, Greece-based creative office Matadog Design , was a label that welcomes the consumer, and literally asks them to take it home. The label on the back reads: “I am a pure extra virgin olive oil from Greece and I am made especially for you.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

Example: More than 50% of all youth in Greece & Spain (34% in Italy) are unemployed and if you take “under-employment” it is even worse. The world still has economic challenges that often aren’t perceived by many of us the tech world in our little cocoons of Silicon Valley, NYC or Los Angeles.

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ConversionXL

MAY 17, 2012

A famous example is Pantheon built in Ancient Greece: Can you use it on web design? Here’s what the golden ratio looks like: Many artists and architects have proportioned their works to approximate the golden ratio. You betcha. Here’s Twitter: Image source.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Today Stathis Katinas from Greece, pitched CarRentalBookers.com , a business he founded with his partner Tristan Mcvean. Nonetheless, I was very happy to see a European entrepreneur, especially one from Greece, amidst that country's utter crisis-ridden state. CarRentalBookers.com.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

I have worked while sailing Croatia and Greece in the Summer and hopping every Christmas market in Europe in the Winter. While in Europe, I continued to make the same income as I did back in the states and realized that with only my Macbook and decent WiFi I was able to work from anywhere that SkyMiles and a backpack would take me.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

From its roots in ancient Greece to modern topics like unequal gender pay, business ethics is a large field of study. It applies to the production, distribution, marketing, sale and consumption of goods and services. It can include potentially controversial issues like insider trading, bribery and discrimination.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

For the next few days I am at the WPP Stream Un-conference in sunny Greece. Many of the worlds best minds in technology, communications and media are here. So I’ll be living tweeting their insights and blogging what I learn.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 11, 2012

Because their partners in government – and whatever one’s political persuasion government is and will remain a key partner that must work well if business is to thrive (see Greece, Argentina, et al.) – have to and are working better. The process is slow. It is painful. It is cynical-inducing. But it is happening. Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Greetings from Crete, Greece Reply Jerry Ji , on April 10, 2009 at 11:09 am Said: Simply _THE BEST_ war story I’ve read in months. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. Thanks so much for sharing such stories.

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