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Russia's Serial Entrepreneurs Launch A New Crop of Hot Companies

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on October 24, 2009

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U.S. skeptics said it couldn't be done but Natalya Kaspersky built a company inside Russia that today has annual revenues of $500 million and is ranked as one of the top five anti-virus companies worldwide. Now she is on to her next venture, InfoWatch, which is targeting another area of data security. Kaspersky is just one of the Russian serial entrepreneurs who presented their companies to global venture capitalists during a recent tech tour of Moscow, Tatarstan and Siberia. Click here to see the video and read the story.
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Tech Entrepeneur Martin Varsavsky: You Can Build Your Start-up Without Venture Capital.

Submitted by Martin Varsavsky on January 25, 2009

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Guest columnist Martin Varsavsky is a well-known tech entrepreneur and angel investor. Born in Argentina and now based in Madrid, he is the founder of a number of tech companies in the U.S. and Europe, includig Viatel, Jazztel and FON.Read more

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Jennifer L. Schenker has been covering technology outside the U.S for 23 years, most recently for BusinessWeek. She has also worked full-time for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune and Red Herring.

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