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They say time moves faster on the internet — and if you’re looking for proof, just ask Marina Treschchova, the CEO of Moscow incubator Fast Lane Ventures. The company, which builds Internet companies focused on the Russian market, only launched in 2010… and yet it celebrated its first major success last month, with the $40 million sale of shoe retailer Sapato.

That’s speedy work.

When I met her in London last week, Treschcova says even the team at Fast Lane — which explicitly targets only ideas that can achieve rapid growth — didn’t expect things to happen quite so quickly. But the deal to sell to Ozon, Russia’s biggest online retailer, was too good to turn down.

To read the full, original article click on this link: In the Fast Lane: tips from Russia’s hottest incubator — Tech News and Analysis