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From Siberia to Silicon Valley: Wanelo’s Deena Varshavskaya Shares Five Startup Lessons Learned

From Siberia to Silicon Valley: Wanelo’s Deena Varshavskaya Shares Five Startup Lessons Learned

18 July 2011 | Uncategorized

By Deena Varshavskaya (Founder & CEO, Wanelo) I like to think that my entrepreneurial training started when I was born in the far east of Siberia, Russia — one of the coldest places on Earth where humans live (see #5 on this list). My family had been...
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