YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

For example: what are the implications of Russia having a life expectancy of 59 versus 61 for Bangladesh? Companies need to be creative and find new business models to take advantage of the shifting makeup of their operating countries’ populations. The internet of everything is on its way.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Perhaps the biggest culprits of click fraud are robots—malicious computer programs ( botnets ) that automatically scan the internet and subtly carry out clicks, trying to pass as human. We found a range of providers, mainly in Russia, that were as low as $100/day to eliminate your competitors from the ad auction.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Massimo Sgrelli, Entrepreneur, angel investor, computer programmer, agrees with Eyal’s suggestion: The best way to attract Silicon Valley investors to your non-US startup is to split your operations keeping R&D in your own country, while moving business and marketing heads in the Valley (and potentially the founders too).

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

In Russia, President Putin’s office just stopped using PC’s and switched to typewriters. You’d be invisible to all rootkit detection techniques that checks the operating system. Your operating system ensures security of updates by checking downloaded update packages against the signing key.) George Orwell.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

Esther was talking about problems and entrepreneurs as far away as Russia. She was talking a lot about how the broader world doesn’t operate how we in Silicon Valley always perceive that it does. She encouraged people to get out and travel, see the world, see how other people live and operate. Om Malik was also on the panel.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Globalization is the most significant challenge facing multinational firms today, especially in the emerging markets of Russia, Brazil, China, and Mexico. However, global businesses evaluate a variety of considerations before expanding their operations into a new market. Its domestic economy expanded by 0.6%

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Dorian Barak , a China-Israel tech investment expert, said that ‘infrastructure like the new train not only make it faster to reach mainland cities like Dongguan, but also serves as a guidepost for companies seeking to enter or expand their operations in China. It is common knowledge that startups are currently soaring in Russia.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2015

The startup culture is rampant today, especially in emerging national economies like Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. If you operate from a single phone line, you could lose leads, as potential customers who hear a busy tone may call a competitor instead. Never miss another customer call. Some services are even free.

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Board Effect

APRIL 7, 2020

Criminals are always on the lookout for how they can make money by staying current with global trends and news in much the same way that legitimate corporations operate. The general public is on a constant search for updated information on the issue and the internet is the first place they’re looking to find it.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Have they moved to their forward operating bases in the Artic?) There was a big flap in the press when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles refused to permit Nikita Khrushchev to bring a captured gondola and tour the USA to show what the Government was playing over Russia. How many did they have? How would they reach the U.S.?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

Someone would put a radio next to it in Bloomington and we were like, "This internet thing has got to have a better way." My grandparents were forced from Russia. But this is not a standard operating procedure. So we started out what turned out to be one of the first, if not the first, audio streaming companies called AudioNet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2013

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Operations in another country. Investors in one country are generally reluctant to invest in a company outside their realm of operational knowledge. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2011

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Operations in another country. Investors in one country are generally reluctant to invest in a company outside their realm of operational knowledge. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. In your mind, what is different in the way companies need to operate in that post-unicorn stage? . The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns. David Zhang.

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Gust

JANUARY 6, 2013

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Operations in another country. Investors in one country are generally reluctant to invest in a company outside their realm of operational knowledge. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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Russia Startup Software Review Government 186

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

I was present at the creation of the first microprocessors, participated in the PC revolution, built video games, and shipped software on the first Internet browsers. Our better angels soared as printed books became the Internet of the Renaissance. I don’t have to explain the Internet to you. The same is true for the Internet.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

For many investors and entrepreneurs in the West, doing business in Russia can seem like a step into the unknown. With a little knowledge of some of the key cultural differences and unique properties of the local tech scene, Russia can easily become one of the most attractive tech markets in the world for investors. Russia in numbers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Operations in another country. Investors in one country are generally reluctant to invest in a company outside their realm of operational knowledge. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

Serial entrepreneur Weyrich has started three Internet companies and three mobile app companies since the age of 22, and recently sold a Catholic Dating service he owned and operated in 2007 to a competitor.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

Israeli start-up Iway Mobile and cellphone provider Cellcom brought to market the first in-car Internet navigation system – The Comodo. Iway founder and Chief Executive Danny Knafou said the first countries to offer the product would likely be France, Russia and China. Watch this space. Macro News.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 9, 2024

And about 70% of the global population uses the internet. Thats what happens when a critical mass of individuals, personally empowered by AI, begin to operate at levels that compound through society. President Reagan announced that whenever GPS became fully operational, the United States would also make it available for civilian use.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine. Drone technology was initially only available to national governments and militaries but is now democratized to low price points and available as internet purchases.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. I think Biden said that the top threat to America was Russia. I disagree with that.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I personally experienced the even more subversive side of DIGG when I learned that groups of people were actually demanding money to get stories on the DIGG homepage and I, the naive believer in online democracy and good intentions of people, learned about the black hat and gray hat monetization of the Internet. Video is the new HTML.”

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