Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 10, 2010
During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK. I ran a team of 14 people (12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk … both of whom were fluent in Japanese) who produced an Internet strategy for the board of Sony. It was not a touristy experience.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 26, 2020
The fact that the Internet and remote work apps are finally fast and robust enough that near-seamless remote collaboration is possible. The internet itself, and most particularly last-mile connectivity, would not have supported the sudden global shift. Many people are more productive working from home.
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ReadWriteStart
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Global internet bandwidth has exponentially increased while costs have become radically lower. If you’re recruiting out of Hungary, the signals you’d typically rely on to help you identify strong candidates probably don’t exist. Real estate costs in tech hubs have skyrocketed.
Agile VC
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
I had read somewhere that Apple’s cash pile was equivalent to Hungary’s GDP so I tweeted out the suggestion that perhaps an activist shareholder should push an acquisition of Hungary rather than thinking small (e.g. For some reason the notion of Apple hiking the taxes of Hungary to fund a dividend recap just amuses me….
Cracking the Code
OCTOBER 24, 2012
The first category includes companies that have a dominant position in their national market and are often internet or ecommerce companies. I would categorize these champions in two camps: the “Local Champions” and the “Global Champions”. Why Eastern Europe? mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JULY 17, 2013
Tweet I received an email recently from one my newsletter subscribers named Zsolt , who is from Hungary. world of blogging, podcasting and social media, versus traditional internet marketing formats. He had a really great question regarding what business models still work online. Specifically he was referring to the more social web 2.0
crowdSPRING Blog
MARCH 22, 2018
The iPhone integrated phone, camera, music player and internet access all into one device – and it did it well. The Rubik’s Cube is a run-away success straight from the unlikely homeland of Communist Hungary. But, the touchscreen wasn’t the iPhone’s only major innovation. Rubik’s Cube (1980).
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