In 2003, a recent MBA grad, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I was implementing my business plan which I developed during the entrepreneurship course at London Business School.

GoalEurope was set up to offer outsourcing advice to western companies looking for software development outsourcing in eastern Europe. I have signed up a number of companies to be in my supplier network. One of them was NTR Lab whose cofounder and CEO Nick Mikhailovky told me all sorts of interesting stories about neutral networks when I first met him in his office in Moscow in 2003.

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Nick Mikhailovsky will represent POIdo at the Technology Entrepreneurship and Development Program (TEDP) on March 11-27, 2011. POIdo, ePythia and Pirate Pay were awarded the CRDF Global Technology Entrepreneurship Development Program Travel Grant at the October 2010 Technology Entrepreneurship Workshop in Moscow, Russia. During the visit the winners will go through series of training and coaching sessions and will participate in SXSW Trade Show featuring presentations of the best new digital works. Beginning in Austin, Texas and continuing in Arlington, Virginia, the travel will end in Silicon Valley, California, where grantees will particiapte in the Global Technology Symposium, the leading investment conference venture capital, technology and entrepreneurship in emerging markets.

For more information please visit http://www.crdf.org/events/events_show.htm?doc_id=1494780

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Pay-per-click location-based advertising platform POIdo will present  at MobiTechFest Conference on September 21, 2010 in San Francisco, CA

Moscow, Russia and San Francisco, CA, September 20, 2010 – POIdo , a pay-per-click location-based advertising platform, is announced one of 12 companies selected to present to investors and industry executives at Investorfest Media’s MobiTechFest 2010 conference at the Microsoft Conference Center in San Francisco, CA on September 20, 2010.

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Location or geo-based advertising is a hot topic for the online marketing industry. FourSquare and Facebook have both made moves towards geo-marketing. Home-grown start-up POIdo has also entered the fray with their service. It’s definitely one to keep on your radar.

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By Nick Wilsdon
September 8, 2010
RussianMarketer

Millions of users of Maps@Mail.ru, the major mapping service in Russia, will see POIdo geocontext ads

Russia’s leading internet portal Mail.ru became the first Russian web resource displaying geocontext ads. POIdo ads will be shown in Maps@Mail.ru, a mapping service providing data about road traffic in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other big Russian cities.

The new geocontext advertising service is a perfect fit for the mainstream business audience. POIdo ads are equally useful for both large companies with numerous locations and small businesses serving local clients, such as shops, cafes and car washes.

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POIdo is one of 20 promising startups included in the MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition and is in the running for one of two coveted Tesla Awards.

POIdo, one of a number of location-based advertising startups, is putting a new spin on the concept. The Moscow-based company is able to target advertisements at users based on their exact locations, the context of them being there, and their recent behavior in other applications on their phones.

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By Camille Ricketts
July 12, 2010
VentureBeat

Location-based advertising platform POIdo was recognized as an innovative company by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and awarded a resident status for the Tomsk Special Economic Zone

Moscow /Tomsk, July 9, 2010.
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) were first established in Russia in 2005 to gather clusters of the most advanced high-tech companies and to promote innovations. SEZs provide buildings and other infrastructure, incentives and concessions to the carefully selected companies.

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Location-based advertising platform POIdo is announced one of six winners of Geo-Loco Startup Competition and one of 20 finalists of the MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition

San Francisco – July 1, 2010 –
Finalists of the MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition and winners of the Geo-Loco Startup Competition have been announced. Nick Mikhailovsky, POIdo CEO, will first present POIdo platform to over 450 influencers, investors, and press on July 12-13 in San Francisco at The Palace Hotel, and then will pitch the platform to 100s of Geo-Loco professionals on July 21st.

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POIdo, the new advertising platform providing targeted ads using customers’ precise location, context and behavior in applications on mobile phones, portable navigation systems and internet site, launched today.

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