ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

As the global economic situation deteriorates amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and soaring energy costs, many aspiring entrepreneurs might be tempted to give up and wait for better days. But don’t give up! It is true that founding a startup in times of crisis may look more challenging.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2020

For instance, if you choose Ukraine with the abundance of quality IT talents as the location for your office, take a look at Alcor and their unique business model. With it, you will promote your brand locally, close vacancies efficiently, share knowledge with your new team easily, and overall create a more productive environment.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Here’s a guest post on what happened to him in the Ukraine. Only rarely does the teaching itself require tenacity, as it did late last month in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine was magnificent. Not if I had to spend two weeks in the Ukraine applying for a new Russian visa!

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

It later opened offices in Dublin, Ireland, Kiev, Ukraine, and St Petersburg, Russia. The company’s early operations were based in Mountain View before it relocated to San Jose, San California in February, 2016.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2012

Taking top spot in the Software Design category is quadSquad from Ukraine, winning US$25,000 with its set of custom-designed sensory gloves and a smartphone application called ‘Enable Talk’ that allows the deaf to communicate verbally by translating sign languages into speech. First Place: quadSquad (Ukraine). Game Design.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 13, 2024

I’ve been meaning to share this full story publicly for a long time, but something held me back… In 2017 I was in Lviv, Ukraine. I went to Ukraine initially because I wanted to attend Eurovision, which was being hosted that year in Kyiv, Ukraine. appeared first on Yaro.Blog.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp’s founders, immigrated to the US from Communist Ukraine as a teenager. If this acquisition, cited as the largest venture backed exit ever, doesn’t change that view, I’m not sure what will. He worked at Yahoo, where he met his co-founder.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

I applied this method to every single one of our hires and today our team consists of 22 people from United States, India, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Greece and the Philippines. I had to be sure that we really needed one more member and weren’t just wasting our money. The key takeaways here are how careful you need to be about hiring.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Then there’s the war in the Ukraine, rising energy prices, inflation, climate change, pandemic and who knows what other curve balls will be thrown our way. The ‘easy money’ that was characteristic of the venture market in 2021 has gone away, and venture activity contracted 30% globally in Q2 2022 alone.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The preferred location for several tech startups is Ukraine since the rates they pay for talented tech workers are low in comparison. This external hiring equates to an outpouring of money from the country since the companies need to pay their overseas staff and their family activities. Wage Inflation.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MARCH 25, 2013

I ended up hiring someone from Ukraine because he could work full time on weekplan but both were really good. Now I can use the app as a way to show the company’s commitment to personal productivity. Out of the three developers I trialled, two passed the app test.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 17, 2022

Since her divorce, she has given away $12+ billion to >1000 organizations focused on gender equality, racial justice, public health, Ukraine, and more. MacKenzie Scott the author and book lover who inspired and helped Jeff Bezos start Amazon has taken charitable giving to a whole new level.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

The team working on Ukraine did not fly there for obvious reasons. Team Ukraine Click here if you can’t see the Team Ukraine presentation. The team working on the Green Hydrogen got connected to the Rotterdam ecosystem and key stakeholders in the Port, energy incumbents, VCs and Tech Universities.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Vladimir Lempert CEO and founder of Spetztekhosnastka, or “STO”, a plastics design and manufacturing company headquartered in Dniprodzerzhins'k (about 200 miles Southeast of Kiev), in the Ukraine.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 6, 2011

That’s right, I prefer writing code than writing words and yet it’s been two months now that I started outsourcing the development of TaskArmy to someone in Ukraine. I spent the first 8 months developing the website myself until I proved to myself that my idea was a viable business idea.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

And as we’ve seen in Ukraine, Russia remains determined to wage a brutal war to play a disruptive role on the world stage. Team 8: Ukraine Aid Click here to see the presentation. Team 7: Public Private Partnerships Click here to see the presentation.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2013

Ann comes from Ukraine. Ann Smarty is the search and social marketer, community manager and blogger at Internet Marketing Ninjas. She is also founder of MyBlogGuest.com , the free community connecting bloggers to guest authors focusing on high-quality approach.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 4, 2020

She was born and raised in Ukraine and the Soviet Union. Growing up in Ukraine , did you ever imagine that your life journey would take you to leading startups in the middle of Texas? She is the Managing Partner and CEO of Sputnik ATX , an accelerator that funds and mentors early-stage startup companies.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

When Koum was young, his poor family emigrated to California from Ukraine. It's steadily risen to the most popular toymaker spot once more. Thanks to Daivat Dholakia, Essenvia ! #24- 24- Jan Koum. Photo Credit: Amar Vig. Koum read more about computers in California. By 18, he had amazing computing skills.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2024

Over the last five years more of my students have understood that Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine and strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China mean that the world is no longer a stable and safe place. Here’s why and how. This has convinced many of them to work on national security problems in defense startups.

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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. But it wasn’t until a little later when I spent more time with the freelancer side that I discovered the true power and potential significance of the platform.

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The Startup Toolkit

JULY 19, 2013

I think this was in Kiev, Ukraine. I couldn’t have done this without the previous 2 periods, since that was when I built the network I was now cashing in on. It also took about 6 months to learn how to sell myself properly and develop some missing skills. Lots of fun, lots of airports. Minor existential crisis.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2024

See and actively seek out the impact of disruption in adjacent areas e.g. AI’s impact on protein modeling, drones in the battlefield and Black Sea in Ukraine, et al. Ask the pointy end of the organization (e.g the sales force, fleet admirals) if they are willing to take more risk on new capabilities.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2012

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. Ukraine Startup Awards, Kiev, February 19th. We promise drinks and great networking opportunities. Romanian Startup Awards, Bucharest, February 5th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

The updated list of locations is below: Streaming Sponsor Africa Cape Town, South Africa: [link] Asia Chennai, India: [link] Pune, India: [link] Europe Athens, Greece: [link] Barcelona, Spain: [link] Belfast, Northern Ireland: [link] Berlin, Germany: [link] Brescia, Italy: [link] Brighton, England, UK: [link] Brussels, Belgium: [link] Bucharest, Romania: (..)

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2024

Even today, the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine rapidly delivers weapons. In Iraq and Afghanistan innovative crisis-driven organizations appeared, such as the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. And armed services have bypassed their own bureaucracy by creating rapid capabilities offices.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I felt like hanging out in Ukraine for a bit, so off I went. As Amy and I sit in our office in Aspen and grind away, we are blessed with a magical view. A few moments ago, my EA Annie sent me a link to WindowSwap. It’s a treasure. The post WindowSwap – Travel Around The World From Home appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The newly launched chapters are Zagreb (Croatia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy) and Kyiv (Ukraine). As promised at the end of July , the organization has now announced the launch of five new programs across the continent, doubling its European presence to ten chapters across as many countries.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

It’s consistently being a Russia apologist like David Sacks of Craft Ventures who thinks that the way we could have stopped Russia from attacking Ukraine was to just promise not to let Ukraine join NATO of its own free will, you know, to protect itself from the very thing that is happening right now.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Hello from beautiful Lviv Ukraine, the town I presently call home. I’ve had a very busy 2017, traveling from Toronto to Vancouver, then Paris, Nice, Monaco, Lviv, Kiev, back to Paris for the French Open tennis, London, Valencia, Barcelona, Warsaw, and then back to Lviv. Traveling this frequently is not.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2016

It’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot. If you search Google News for something like “new startup accelerator,” it will return hundreds of headlines from all over the world.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Alexander_Dsign has been a crowdSPRING member since November 19, 2010 and is from Kiev, Ukraine. We are thrilled to announce that the August $1,000 cS award will go to Alexander_Dsign , who did the most to upgrade their crowdSPRING portfolio during the month of August. We are proud to have him in our community.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For example, the best R&D teams for your needs might be based in the Ukraine, whereas the best designers may be in Germany. A globally distributed business model allows you to hire the best talent wherever in the world it is. Transitioning to and managing a globally distributed model isn’t plain sailing.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 4, 2018

If you follow me on Instagram you’ve probably seen some photos during 2017 and 2018 of my apartment renovation project in Ukraine. As the months sped by the progress of the renovation continued, turning what was a very old and run down Austrian Empire era apartment, to a modern western.

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