Titlebook: Entrepreneurial Icebreakers; Insights and Case St Julia Prats,Marc Sosna,Sylwia Sysko-Romańczuk Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of

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Introductionnufacturer was founded while private flying was still prohibited, but went on to win three NASA Challenges — a feat which no aviation company had done before. In Estonia, a small start-up made waves with its unique technology and industry-leading capabilities, attracting acquisition bids from global

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Entrepreneurship in Transition Economiesat home but also managed to build a global presence and reputation for their enterprises. We call them Entrepreneurial Icebreakers. We shed new light on how these entrepreneurs created value in less-friendly environments — for themselves as well as others. Our findings can enrich global and especial

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Overcoming Start-Up Challenges in Transition Economiesg-distance runner who gets additional weights attached to his arms and legs while forced to run on uneven and slippery ground, Boris’ first entrepreneurial steps were laden with issues and difficulties, compounding an already challenging context.

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Overcoming a Negative Country-of-Origin Effectprotect British products from foreign copycats of lower quality. And still today, the label “Made in… ” — despite its brevity — likely has one of the most significant impacts on people’s perceptions, value attribution and purchasing behavior across a wide range of product categories. This is true fr

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CASE 2: Atlantic Grupa: Preparing for Leading in the New Europe and cons of the decision they had discussed. He had often expressed the desire to further expand internationally and become a true regional player. Now a new acquisition opportunity could accelerate reaching that goal. He and his team needed to decide if this was the right strategic move or not — a

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CASE 3: Avangate: Preparing the Trans-Atlantic JumpGeorgescu had only created the RAV Antivirus product a year earlier. As the champagne corks popped at the little-known company, GeCAD Software, Radu already felt the need to look for new opportunities. Over the next few months most of the RAV Antivirus development team moved to Microsoft in the Unit

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CASE 5: Fx3x: Star Performance without a Star Attitudeonal Television Studio One, which was covering the Oscar Awards . ceremony currently underway across the globe in Hollywood. Three of the movies that Fx3x had worked on in the last year were nominated for Oscars and Life of Pi had just won an Oscar in the visual effects category. While the Fx3x arti

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CASE 6: Graphisoft: The Architecture of International Growthized by the investment banking group Cowen & Co. Gabor decided to interrupt a previously planned, well-deserved ski vacation with family and friends to devote one day of presenting his software company, Graphisoft, its past, present and ambitious future plans, to potential investors in anticipation

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CASE 9: The Masterplast Story: Constructing an Entrepreneurial Success Storyr in their office pondering the big question: What was the best next step in order to keep growing and internationalizing their company? So far they had built Masterplast from scratch to an €80 million revenue construction material wholesaler and producer with operations in 12 countries. In fact, Ma