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In the ever-evolving landscape of startups, risks and opportunities draw in creative and entrepreneurial individuals who strive to realise their visions. While much of this occurs concealed from the gaze of the public, innovation has transformed from an enigmatic black box into a predictable and manageable process—provided one possesses the right tools and knows where to look and what actions to take. The method presented here for evaluating and managing startup risks is geared towards the uncertain world of innovative startups and enables entrepreneurs and investors to navigate it more confidently. The book introduces an agile non-cash-flow-based methodology for startup valuation, offering practitioners a holistic risk and innovativeness assessment tool enabling quantification of a startup’s potential for exponential growth throughout its lifecycle. The proposed Hypothesis Testing Method covers underlying assumptions rooted in the five primary hypotheses accounting for the lifecycle stages and potential contingencies of a startup venture. This guide will be invaluable to practitioners seeking to navigate the complexities of innovation, harnessing the potential of cutting-edge startups, and shifting the traditional capital-at-risk approach towards an opportunity-at-risk mindset, fostering a healthier investment culture and facilitating the advancement of transformative technologies.

Combining social science with the multi-disciplinarity of area studies, Alexander Motyl discusses in fifteen essays the malleability and modernity of national identity, the attractions and limits of social constructivist imaginings of nations, the impact of national discourses, binary morality, and historical narratives on interpretations of the Holocaust and the Holodomor, the relationship between liberalism, nationalism, and fascism, and the role of national identity and nationalism in Eastern Europe in general and the Soviet Union, Ukraine, and Russia in particular. Throughout the chapters, Motyl questions conventional wisdom, exposes its inconsistencies and weaknesses, and encourages readers to rethink their views in light of conceptual clarity, theoretical rigor, elementary logic, and empirical evidence.

Die Ukraine ist das neue West-Berlin Ost-Europas. Die Annexion der Krim und die russische Invasion im Donbas zwangen Kyjiw zu rasantem Wandel. Vor zehn Jahren war die Ukraine noch ein postsowjetisches Land mit gespaltener Identitat - heute ist sie ein Vorposten Europas, der nun bereits das dritte Jahr in Folge dem Ansturm der russischen Armee trotzt. Der Wilde Westen Ost-Europas ist ein Buch daruber, wie diese Transformation moglich wurde.

This book is a collection of stories from witnesses and victims of Russian war atrocities that occurred in Ukraine during the full-scale Russian invasion that started in 2022. It contains first-hand stories of killings, illegal detentions, torture, and heavy bombardments of the civilian settlements carried out the Russian military during the invasion of Ukraine. It also contains stories of evacuation, losing loved ones, and the heroism of soldiers and paramedics. This book will give you the human dimension of the war, reflected in the stories of real people.

This timely book provides a comprehensive, multi-dimensional and comparative analysis of political uncertainty.It is innovative in introducing the notions of inter-institutional, verbally induced, and historical uncertainty.

This collection of studies investigates the political economy of international relations between the Soviet bloc (the East) and the developing world (the South), spanning the entire post-Stalin era while focusing on the 1970s and 1980s.

The formation of a party system is widely regarded as a key to successful and sustainable patterns of democratisation. In this essay we examine the evolution of the party system in Ukraine, focusing on the extent to which the Euromaidan has addressed previous problems and weaknesses. So far the post-Soviet Ukrainian party system has been exceptionally unstable as electoral legislation, the factional composition of Ukraine's parliament, and the dominant parties in Ukraine underwent frequent changes. We argue that, despite advances in democratisation as a result of the revolutionary events of 2013-2014, the essential features of Ukraine's party system have not changed. The legislative, ideological and organisational foundations of the Ukrainian party-political landscape and parliamentary politics have remained fragile.

This monograph provides a detailed yet concise narrative of the history of the ethnic Germans in the Russian Empire and USSR.It starts with the settlement in the Russian Empire by German colonists in the Volga, Black Sea, and other regions in 1764, tracing their development and Tsarist state policies towards them up until 1917.

The post-2014 decentralization policy is consolidating the center-periphery relations in Ukraine.Already before 2014, domestic policymakers had been drafting proposals for local amalgamation and an increase of regional authority.Before the 2020 watershed subnational elections, only the local amalgamation policy was completed, however.

Freedom of religious expression and assembly has never been under greater threat in post-Soviet Russia.The infamous Yarovaya Law of 2016 has made good on previous legislative endeavors to curtail the activities of undesirable religious entities.