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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

ReadWriteStart

In 2018, venture capital investments in Latin America doubled for the second consecutive year, according to LAVCA’s Annual Review of Tech Investment in Latin America. Looking at the major markets in Latin America in 2018, most show increases in VC investment in keeping with the regional average. Truly innovative.

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The Real Story Of America Is About Small

VC Adventure

Why is America so divided? America is home to a lot of big companies that dominate the headlines, mindshare and financial markets of our country. million businesses – between just February 2002 and April 2020. When we lose small businesses, we take a loss on three incredibly important pieces of America. Trillion Of GDP.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? Social Networking in Web 2.0.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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Venture Capital Access Program launches to aid women and diverse entrepreneurs

David Teten

the shift of America to a majority minority country by 2050. Department of Commerce & the Minority Business Development Agency, between 2002 and 2007, diverse-owned firms outpaced the growth of non-diverse firms in gross receipts and employment. According to the U.S. for non-diverse firms.

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To Infinity and Beyond: How Entrepreneurism is Making Space Tourism Viable

YoungUpstarts

Shepard, America’s first astronaut, Blue Origin’s spacecraft is known as the New Shepard. Since its founding in 2002, Musk’s SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) has been at the forefront in the conceptualization and manufacture of efficient space rockets.

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How The 5G Revolution Emerged And How It Will Give Business A Boost

YoungUpstarts

currently trails China and South Korea in 5G development, a situation which puts America at a disadvantage if it is not addressed. As a tariff war between the U.S. and China threatens to escalate, 5G wireless technology has emerged as one of the major fronts in the long-term competition between the two superpowers.