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. It starts by not giving your company a name that means something totally offensive in some future important market.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2012

Filipinos come a very close second at 79-percent, followed by Russia (60-percent). When asked to name the gadget they could not live without, 43-percent said their smartphone, another 43-percent voted their PC or laptop. Even more encouragingly, 8-percent of those surveyed were already entrepreneurs!

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2022

including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. Those who come to this country with little more than hope to their name know that to get what they want they must work harder and longer than anyone else. The instant gratification approach just doesn’t work in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2019

including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. Those who come to this country with little more than hope to their name know that to get what they want they must work harder and longer than anyone else. The instant gratification approach just doesn’t work in business.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

In Russia, President Putin’s office just stopped using PC’s and switched to typewriters. Yet the one company’s name that hasn’t come up as part of the surveillance network is Intel. In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell. What do they know what we don’t?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2013

Its recent edition attracted more than 3,000 teams and 9,000 participants, both locally as well as from countries such as Australia, Canada, Norway, India, Brunei, Pakistan, Russia, Greece, the Philippines and Indonesia.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 27, 2017

The game takes place in a fictional world of anthropomorphic animals in a frigid country much like Russia controlled by a fascist Leader by the name Big Pig. Some can say it is a current review of our crazy political happenings, or even a reference to George Orwell’s Animal Farm or even 1984.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2012

Before long I was managing thousands of nerds in Russia, China, Germany, the U.S., Tieto gave managers a leadership score (formal name: Leadership Index/VCC Value Creation Capital) every year, based on surveys of the people who worked for and with them. But Tieto was growing rapidly and going global. and other countries.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2020

Interestingly, the 24-hour forex market is broken down into three geographical sessions: namely the North American, European and Asian sessions. However, the Asian market encompasses more than 40 individual states and nations, including China, Australia, New Zealand and even Russia.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

For example, apply a filter to find out if the page loading slowly in all countries or just Russia and Turkey. Step 1: Create a custom report and choose “Flat Table” Dimensions will be “Day of Week Name” and “Hour” Step 2: Add relevant metrics. You can do this using segments.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2012

Starcount simply aggregates data from 11 top social media platforms – including Russia’s social network VKontakte – and pulls this into charts to give you info on who or what is the most popular in social media. Starcount generates and assigns each a Starcount score, of which the largest number is 100,000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2017

including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. Those who come to this country with little more than hope to their name know that to get what they want they must work harder and longer than anyone else. The instant gratification approach just doesn’t work in business.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

The Venture Capital industry as a whole does a terrible job of giving things the right name and so we end up keeping the same name, but changing the meaning out from under it. A lot of this capital is coming from non-traditional geographies like China, Russia, Middle East, India. Tech companies generate a lot of buzz.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2012

Its only flaw is its name. Summer 2012) Russia – Alpina (July 2012) Thailand - WeLearn Korea – Insight Press China - China Citic Press To sign up Please register here. The Seminar Centre The Hauser Forum 3 Charles Babbage Road Cambridge, CB3 0GT His book, 'The Lean Startup', is an incredible work.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

Today, China, Russia, North Korea and other countries have locked their citizens behind a great firewall. It had different names in the past — “yellow journalism,” propaganda, misinformation. The same is true for the Internet. They control what their citizens can see and access.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

Girls in Tech London picked the top women in 19 countries – the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Greece and Israel – on the basis of their leadership and excellence in innovation and technology.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2012

The concept of virtual work has many names, from telecommuting and teleworking to distributed companies and remote workers. The firm’s 53 freelancers and part-timers are now happily collaborating on a huge project, the EuraMedia 2012 summit , while scattered across the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia.

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A Crowded Space

APRIL 10, 2013

oDesk’s core user base in the beginning was a very small (about 50) number of php programmers in Russia that we quickly employed nearly full-time. He knew every one of their names and new that one was having some health concerns. Etsy has the 10k club - for sellers that have sold over 10k items. Uber has full time drivers.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

She was an international facilitator and spoke all over the world from Russia to Spain to Canada and throughout the United States. How did you come up with your business name? We have tens of thousands of graduates who have gone through our programming, but very few know where the name Momentum Education comes from.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2016

For example, apply a filter to find out if the page loading slowly in all countries or just Russia and Turkey. You need to understand the context for the slow page load speed. You can do this using segments. Tip: Use Motion Charts to find additional context. They’ll tell you how page load speed has changed over time.

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The Next Web

JUNE 8, 2015

to the geopolitical (“Consequence of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.”) site itself is very much a ‘minimum viable product’: A spreadsheet that details the name of the startup, the idea, the reason for failure, and links to blog posts… This story continues at The Next Web. The Autopsy.io

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

She was an international facilitator and spoke all over the world from Russia to Spain to Canada and throughout the United States. How did you come up with your business name? We have tens of thousands of graduates who have gone through our programming, but very few know where the name Momentum Education comes from.

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Board Effect

APRIL 7, 2020

There are a good number of hackers lurking in cyberspace that have the backing of their governments —namely in China, North Korea, and Russia. In Russia, the Hades group is a well-known hacking group. Cybersecurity experts warn that it’s not only individual or small groups of hackers that pose a danger to your organization.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

It starts out as the autobiography of Bill Browder and his creation of a massively successful hedge fund ( Hermitage Capital Management ) that was one of the first non-Russian investors in Russia in the mid to late 1990s. Amy and I just finished watching The Night Manager on Amazon, which was based on John le Carré novel by the same name.

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Andrew Payne

MARCH 8, 2019

I’ve always felt my “best” Hacker News comments are the ones most down voted , like this nugget from about a year ago: (From: “ Zuckerberg struggles to name a single Facebook competitor “). No wonder Zuckerberg couldn’t name a competitor. Warren announcing the idea as part of her campaign platform.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2024

Project ‘Sfera’ is a recent example from Russia. Eliezer Yudkowsky was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in AI last year. The US Airforce successfully conducted a Dogfight between an autonomously controlled fighter jet and a human pilot last year.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 14, 2012

Step 1: Type your brand name, and your direct competitor, into the Search Terms area of Insights for Search. If I were doing this analysis in Russia I'd be using Yandex, in China I'd use Baidu, etc. Brand queries, obviously, also convert better. Leveraging Google Insights for Search. So over time, how's your brand doing?

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2011

Became tenured professor of economics at Harvard at age 28, where he first started mentoring a young undergraduate named Sheryl Sandberg, who ultimately became his chief of staff at the US Treasury. Intimately involved in resolving major macroeconomic crises in Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. Became US Treasury Secretary in 1999.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 13, 2010

Technology usage is no longer on the fringe, it is part of most people’s daily life, be it in India, Russia, Abu Dhabhi or Silicon Valley. Last week, I was honored to be named in the Top 50 Asian Americans in Business, with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, as the chief honoree. You want to be that elephant trunk.

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OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Although a small detail, subtleties in language and names are The Same, But Different, too. Although I tried hard, and although I am used to being in meetings with 5 people named Jeremy, 4 named Jen, and 6 named Matt, I will admit that I struggled a little bit with learning unfamiliar names in large quantities like Manish and Monesh.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

AJL supply these yeasts to breweries in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Spain, Brazil, Chile, USA, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Korea, India, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Greece, Belgium, Holland, Vi etnam, Germany and many other countries. I was impressed!

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 9, 2024

And this year, under Nobels name, AI pioneers have won his acclaimed prize for advancements in chemistry and physics. Russias focus, though overlapping, leans heavily toward leveraging AI for geopolitical influence, often with destabilizing intent, such as the potential for cyberattacks targeting energy grids or communication systems.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Hi, my name is Nadya, I am from Russia. I want to share my story about remote work and e learning. Don't judge me too much for my English skills, I tried my best) Kate is a really motivated student. She studying on Faculty of Foreign Languages in town where she lives.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Russia, with its 145M population has been providing 21 percent of our downloads ever since, and it is our second largest market after the US to date. First, you need to optimize your app’s name, as it carries the most weight amongst your keywords. Let’s say for example that your app’s name is Xanadu, and it helps people find vacations.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

We had a good product that worked well in France, so we expanded it across Europe between 2011 and 2014, before moving to a more global scale, launching in Russia, Mexico, and India. As we expanded, BlaBlaCar never had different names in different locations. But, for that to happen, we had to be at least a European winner.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

You start to see weird things like Russia and India are the same. You see the big ones named, the hidden mysterious ones, you can unmask using a mouse hover. are more clearly visible, and you get a much stronger sense of proportions. Yes, it was in the table. But for a visual person like me, this is the ah-ha moment.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

First, the company bought a fleet of 15 rockets from Russia, the U.S. And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. And Iridium would do this without building a single cell tower.

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