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In addition to speaking at IDCEE’13 in Kyiv, Cooper had another goal in visiting Ukraine (and Russia, a couple of days before that). The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine have been sort of anchors for oDesk on the technical side,” Cooper explained.
The first category includes companies that have a dominant position in their national market and are often internet or ecommerce companies. This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland. Why Eastern Europe? mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs.
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Having said that you can also find the most narrow-minded people from the U.S – people who talk about wanting to do business in Russia or China without ever visiting these countries. This is potentially a politically sensitive question, but I would say that in parts of the United States people are using technology actively.
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Or someone like Mark Cuban, who rode the Internet wave perfectly, to the tune of selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.9 Even better, he had the additional good luck to sell nearly all of that stock near the peak of the Internet bubble. billion in Yahoo stock.
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We have over half our population using the internet, and some of the highest daily internet usage in the entire world. Understandably, having a population higher than Russia and America combined, Latin America also comes with a vast amount of differences between our North American cousins.
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Esther was talking about problems and entrepreneurs as far away as Russia. I remember once sitting on a panel with Esther Dyson who is one of the most travelled and broad-experienced technologist I know. It was an “enterprise 2.0” panel at the dawn of what people began calling “web 2.0.”. Om Malik was also on the panel. As was Shel Israel.
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As a development manager I have, over the years, utilized development teams in India, China and Russia. I think he’s right, and I believe that what we’re seeing is a generation of young people, now in their twenties, who speak good English because they grew up with Internet access and were exposed to a lot of English content.
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It’s already coming close to saturating the limits of world Internet usage. For example, there are five major markets where Facebook is not the top social network : China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
Or a Mark Cuban, who rode the Internet wave perfectly, to the tune of selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.9 Even better, he had the additional good luck to sell nearly all of that stock near the peak of the Internet bubble. billion in Yahoo stock.
The startup culture is rampant today, especially in emerging national economies like Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. From job search engines, to cab companies, to food delivery services, many of these businesses are growing fast and gaining popularity. Some services are even free. Promote your business en masse.
Thank you, Internet! As the US slowly is decreasing its consumption (relative to other countries), Russia, Brazil, China, India and other are on an incline. I mean if you have an office cleaning service, how are you going to clean an office in Japan and then another one in Russia. Why the urgency? The New Global Economy.
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Project ‘Sfera’ is a recent example from Russia. The US Airforce successfully conducted a Dogfight between an autonomously controlled fighter jet and a human pilot last year. As we move rapidly towards ‘smart cities’ the result could be quickly turned into surveillance states.
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