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Society, Internet Marketing & · 1W ago

Venture Capitalists are not needed to establish a technology startup

In 1989 Soviet Union collapsed, so was the Science Academy where I worked. Economy in Estonia had collapsed as well; basic food was in coupons and black market soared. During those days I started one of the first IT companies without any capital. Only thing we did, was some work to Finland against t
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Society, Internet Marketing & · 2W ago

Estonia isn’t a right place to start an IT business nowadays

October 2011 I was back in Barcelona after France, grossing Toulouse and Andorra this time. So my concerns where to chase some “customers” to whom I did Link Building campaigns and never got paid; and to figure out some other web based tasks to earn enough to buy a used MacBook to write down my [...
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Society, Internet Marketing & · 1Y ago

Mobile Websites are not yet Viable Business

In 2007, Mobile Web was cool. Every mobile consultant in mobile related event talked about it. So, I made my choice to get some mobile sites done to see, where it goes. That’s why I programmed my Mobile Content Publishing platform. To my first surprise, formatting XML files with XSLT wasn’t much imp
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Society, Internet Marketing & · 1Y ago

Kirk Kimberly ugly porn site – a British way to do business

Brits really are something. Recently a guy calling himself Kirk Kimberly joined to youngentrepreneur.com forum. First he introduced himself as a successful entrepreneur who are interested to buy more businesses. Then he asked if someone can do his website to look more professional, because it really
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Society, Internet Marketing & · 1Y ago

Abandoning my documentary projects because of corruption and incompetence in that market.

When it was starting to be clear that raising financing for my low budget indie features by offering a good ROI to investors doesn’t happen as soon as I expected, I was facing a dilemma. What could I do with less budget to make a good return and producing some documentaries [...]
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Society, Internet Marketing & · 1Y ago

Being a Homeless person, I’m living an very Interesting life and meeting interesting people

2008 I left UK and Belfast. They where able to help me only 50% of financing to any of my projects in Northern Ireland and I was told that unlikely I will find matching financing there. So, unable to find a job or do any other business activities, it wasn’t much viable to live in [...]
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Society, Internet Marketing & · 2Y ago

Tested SEO strategies that worked will kill some SEO myths.

When I wrote my article “Internet directories – waste of time”, I didn’t waited enough as it takes several months from Google to show the effect of your linking strategy rather than few weeks I expected when I wrote it. So from those efforts I was in top page after few months and enjoyed the 27% [..
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Society, Internet Marketing & · 2Y ago

Windows CE 5.0 Netbook – not really a notebook?

Once I had Dell Axim X30 which was running on Windows for Pocket PC 2003. It had Word, Excel, web browser, POP3 email and media player. For this device I had to install MPEG player and Adobe reader to get it useful for my needs. However, batteries lasted only around 20 minutes and to get [...]
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Society, Internet Marketing & · 2Y ago

Documentary (Discovery) Campus idiotic requirements to attend their master school

I was finally happy that in year 2009, the Discovery (Documentary) Campus Master School was free to attend. Previously I had attended to their event in Belfast 2007, met some interesting persons, like Sean Langan who had made documentary series on what’s really goes on in Afghanistan and find out th
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Society, Internet Marketing & · 2Y ago

Is BBC redefining the definition of film now?

When I was arriving to Brighton 2004 then I presented Screen South a project and professional script which I had successfully tested against my target market to make high profits from low budget feature film using the emerging digital distribution channels. Then Screen South bureaucrats answered to
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