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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

At Andersen Consulting I had built computer networks and programmed in COBOL. The Europe goal was shaped by three random things: My father is from South America and his native language is Spanish (although his father was from Romania and escaped oppression there). “Mark, I’m an Associate Partner.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

His father came from Romania. So my family is Jewish and very typical immigration story – his father left Romania at 19, had to get a fake passport in order to get out of the country, left and never went back, and left in the middle of winter and got frostbite. And my specialty was computer networks. It was all technical.

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Janvest Wants to Fill the Seed Investment Gap in Israel (Interview)

VC Cafe

To learn more, VC Cafe interviewed Brian Rosenzweig, one of the managing partners in the new fund and the former marketing director at 21Ventures. Janvest: First, JANVEST is a combination of best practices from leading Angel networks and VC funds. VC Cafe: What is the premise of Janvest and how large is the fund?

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

Today, the end of Communism in Eastern Europe seems so obvious, but in my home country of Romania, until the day Nicolae Ceausescu was shot dead, I thought he would rule forever. The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators.

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How to find the right cofounder

NZ Entrepreneur

I thought I could do everything myself and outsourced the development to a company in Romania through a freelancing website – big mistake! Go to networking events, startup events and meetups and talk to people. So if you’re a technical founder you should generally be partnering with a non-technical founder.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

Today, the end of Communism in Eastern Europe seems so obvious, but in my home country of Romania, until the day Nicolae Ceausescu was shot dead, I thought he would rule forever. The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators.

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My Commencement Speech?—?Life at Your Crossroads

Both Sides of the Table

His father, my grandfather, ended up in South America after fleeing Jewish oppression in Romania. So you need to build a network even outside of your company. They called the partner in America responsible for the project, Grieg Coppe, put him on the phone and he said, “what the hell are you doing there?” My grandfather.

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