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Alex Shumaiev
Expand Borders
Published in
2 min readApr 25, 2017

Hi there.

We are Alex and Marina. And this is our blog. I don’t know how people usually write the first post on Medium. So I will improvise.

We are experienced travelers, and we have visited almost 25% of the world. Originally we are from Ukraine, however, now we are in Dallas, TX.

We know each other for 10 years. We studied together at one university, and one day we fall in love :)

We have been working together on different projects for several years. Btw, we are married for almost four years!

Firstly we were freelancers and we developed websites together. Five years ago we made our first startup — social network for home workers. The project was created for Ukrainian and Russian markets. It was running for half a year; we had more than two thousand registered workers. But we had to freeze the project.

After that, we launched our second startup — “Mall Guide.” It was quite successful. However, because of the situation in our country, we had to search new ideas and new markets. We will write about it in future.

And now we are founders of travel-startup which is based in Dallas, TX — CruiseBe. The project is like our baby, every day we are waking up and thinking how we can improve the functionality and add new features. Soon we will write about our project :)

So, on the one hand, we are entrepreneurs. And on the other, we are travelers.

All our life we try to travel, to make new connections, to have new emotions.

So in this blog, we will tell you our stories, both — “Story about startupers life” and “Stories about travel.”

Hope, you will enjoy!

Stay tuned.

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