ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. Typically, just using very tight targeting, not showing ads in countries where there are higher instances of click fraud or click farming, and using paid social—which, as a closed network, seems much less susceptible to click fraud—seems to work.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Today there is a national network of 40 colleges and universities teaching Hacking for Defense. We’ve created a network of entrepreneurial students who understand the security threats facing the country and engaged them in partnership with islands of innovation in the DOD/IC.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

” Then we needed a permit to go unescorted, or something. ”But my credentials are for a television network. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.) . ”Why? This is personal, not a professional assignment.” Do you see a TV crew with me?”

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Plarium – Multi player games for social networks (Raised Unknown). Kenshoo – Programmatic advertising in search engines and social networks (Raised $65M). MyHeritage – Family tree based social network (Raised $49M). Gett – Taxi hailing and deliveries in Israel, Russia and UK (Raised $102M).

Israel 60

Israel Software Review Analytics eCommerce 60

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2011

What It’s Like To Be An Entrepreneur – Network After Work – [link]. Not surprising that more affluent consumers use social networks differently – [link]. Good article on ranking algorithms & inner workings of Yandex (Russia’s Google) – [link]. Good thoughts on teams and accountability – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2012

Filipinos come a very close second at 79-percent, followed by Russia (60-percent). Well, unsurprisingly, online social networking is huge with this lot. Weekly Facebook use is incredibly high especially in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia rated 93-percent) as compared to other social networks.

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United Arab Emirates Asia South Africa Indonesia 237

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Our industry is definitely moving to an all-encompassing travel and business aids model in which the entire network of services related to it are part of a larger portfolio that includes deliveries, coordination with fulfillment companies, and app-based platforms that assist both the vacationer and business person. Photo Credit: Cody Candee.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 126

Gust

JULY 12, 2012

My wife, Ann, and I took a trip this past spring to visit Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Russia. We finished our first full day at a dinner with Halo , the Northern Ireland Business Angel Network (Alan Watts). Later that afternoon, we visited the phenomenal new Titanic Experience – Not to be missed!

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Community Estonia Ireland Finland 121

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

NETWORK EQUIPMENT MAKER JUNIPER BUYS ISRAELI VIRTUALIZATION SECURITY FIRM ALTOR FOR $95 MLN. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks.

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Israel Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Magento e-commerce system is not very common in Russia where there are few serious implementations in domestic e-commerce, and there are almost no competent developers either. But in the world of CMS, Magento development now occupies a leading position.

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Developer Technology Architecture Russia 132

thebarefootvc

MARCH 4, 2022

The unspeakable violence and aggression that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine and its people is the first all out “hot war” invasion in Europe since WWII. “War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty” —Clausewitz.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. While the network was very helpful getting these startups together and introduced to investors, it wasn’t clear how and when these startups tested their “going global” hypotheses.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

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. We have one of the best telecommunications networks, and are extremely well connected, but it can be very difficult to integrate people into our culture.

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Leadership Singapore Finland China 164

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2011

Interesting (probably smart) that major publishers are creating own ad networks – [link]. This would be a fun way to get to work: In Central Russia, DIY Motorized Propellers Ski You! Social media marketing spending expected to nearly double in next 12 months – [link]. Is Social Business Innovation? – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

VC Cafe

MAY 2, 2023

Apart from being one of the best events from a production point of view (lots of attention to detail from communication to infrastructure and design) it was an opportunity to learn, network and get inspired.

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Generative AI ChatGPT Cofounder Russia 168

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Countries such as the UK , Russia and Finland are trying to replicate its ecosystem, to stimulate their local industries. This tendency to be more outspoken could also be seen in networking and pitching, where there was much less awkwardness than with Europeans. Silicon Valley is a hub. Bigger is Better.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

The most common solution is not necessarily the easiest, where companies hire a manager with expertise or a network in the chosen country, and enable him or her to hire a team of two or three people as support to get started. However, an experienced leader is extremely difficult to find and the risk of failure is high. “I

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Italy Technical Review Germany Poland 59

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

It’s likely that the investors don’t know you, so try and find warm intros from people in your network. Some startups are more interested in mentorship and network than they are in money. Network and talk to people. Use your network #1: do you know someone who we may know and respect (eg.

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Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks. The correct answer is to closely manage the overall network – promote the good people and kick out the bad people. Upwork had truly life-changing potential.

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San Francisco Bangladesh Ukraine Philippines 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

First, the company bought a fleet of 15 rockets from Russia, the U.S. iridium satellite network. But in the 11 years it took Iridium to go from concept to launch, innovation in mobile phones and cell phone networks moved at blinding speed. And Iridium would do this without building a single cell tower.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2012

We’re teaming up with local partners who know the scene well – in fact we’re still looking for great partners in Ireland, Russia and Turkey. The winners will be announced at the various Startup Awards ceremonies in Germany, the UK, Ireland, France, Romania, Spain, Poland, Holland, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Denmark.

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Europe Web Ukraine Ireland 126

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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Silicon Valley Russia Security Customer Development 335

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 7, 2011

Eventually, our biggest client we maintained was the Home Shopping Network (HSN), and we grew that relationship to be one of their top handbag brands. One of our top goals was always to have a New York showroom, especially one who had established relationships with the top accounts from Europe, the Middle East and Russia.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com will enable the social network to embed face recognition software into its photo app.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I thought the reading experience would become equivalent and the convenience of ebooks and networked comments would win. In 2011 they were on the cusp of bankruptcy when Russia’s ‘least famous oligarch’ Alexander Mamut rescued the business. There’s lots of things I love about this story.

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Russia Bankruptcy Stock Global 60

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. Make sure you have enough demand to support your network - make sure they can spend most of their time working and earning. Uber has full time drivers.

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Metrics Disintermediation PHP Russia 111

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Arguably the #1 factor in gaining those tiny, critical slivers of business competitive advantage, just as it is for Olympic athletes , is the quality of our team and network of advisors, consultants, coaches, and helpers. Business is no different.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2012

Roberts Engineering Building University College London Torrington Place (@ Malet Place) WC1E 6BT London Monday, January 16- London England Business Leaders Network Event At 6pm I’ll take the stage to talk about the ideas behind The Lean Startup and what it means to apply those ideas in practice.

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VC Cafe

JULY 25, 2017

“Take a moment think who would actually miss you if you deactivate all your social networking accounts, whatsapp, BBM etc”?—? While Social Networks also enable you to share text, media and documents with your friend, there’s always a question for the user of who has access to that data. Anamika Mishra. This is day two. In summary.

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Social Network Russia Japan China 68

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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Social Media Media Singapore Aggregator 187

VC Cafe

JULY 25, 2017

“Take a moment think who would actually miss you if you deactivate all your social networking accounts, whatsapp, BBM etc”?—? While Social Networks also enable you to share text, media and documents with your friend, there’s always a question for the user of who has access to that data. Anamika Mishra. This is day two. In summary.

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Social Network Russia Mobile Japan 74

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

Mark has been at the forefront of providing job stability and funding for his own employees and the networks that support them during the pandemic. Create local network effects and then go from there. We were one of the very first local area network and wide area network integrators. during S&L crisis. (36:43)

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Dallas Employee Government Social Media 68

paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Growing too slowly is particularly dangerous in a business with network effects, which the best startups usually have to some degree. 14 ] I once explained this to some founders who had recently arrived from Russia. In Russia they just kill you," they said, and they were only partly joking.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

For example, building a broad network of allies gives you more options and more opportunities to be lucky. Napoleon failed in Russia because his supply chains failed during the frigid Russian winter. Part of life and business strategy is to play in a way that luck favors you more often.

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Cofounder Silicon Valley Russia Germany 69

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 24, 2012

In the past few years just about every country with a high-speed network and a national budget has hatched a “startup ecosystem.” Russia, Belarus, England, Greece and South Africa. None has succeeded. Ireland Can Help With Going Global. Enterprise Ireland has so far attracted entrepreneurs from the U.S.,

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Silicon Valley Ireland South Africa Belarus 60

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

There were no social networks, let alone sharing economy then, so it took a while to take off. 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. Back in 2006, that was a very weird concept.

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Global Europe France Cofounder 62

Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

She was one of the founding members of the Athena Network in 2005 where she also served as its Operations Director and supported over 30 Regional Directors. Gina Bianchini is the founder and CEO of Mighty Networks, which is a SaaS platform to help entrepreneurs create a community-powered brand. Kendall SummerHawk. Gina Bianchini.

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