At a time when starting a business can be easier than deciding what you want for breakfast, it’s easy to get caught up in the idea of launching your own startup. The result? Approximately 543,000 new businesses are started each month, which is more than 6.5 million new businesses per year. And 70% of upstart tech companies fail within their first years of existence. Some, however, are rather lucky. I launched my first startup — Inbox.lv — in my home country of Latvia back in 1999. Three years later, this Latvian equivalent to Hotmail became the country’s first-ever tech […]
