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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we turned the spotlight on Latin and Central America. Entrepreneurs from Latin and Central America were given first priority to pitch their businesses at today's roundtable co-hosted by Innova Tiquicia and Startup Weekend Costa Rica.

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Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Keep Getting Younger

YoungUpstarts

Not only that, there’s an endless list of organizations devoted to helping young entrepreneurs get their ideas off the ground, from college business incubators to those that start at a young age like Lemonade Day. They’re not finding jobs : It’s difficult to find a job these days, especially with limited experience like so many students.

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Talented Women: Please Do Not Quit.

YoungUpstarts

One of the greatest defeats of the feminist movement in America has been the phenomenon that women in the thirties are quitting the workforce in large numbers. Being a completely bootstrapped company, Steals.com cannot offer its team the best possible pay. I have observed society around us closely.

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So You Want to Start a Cannabis Business: Advice for the Absolute Beginner

Up and Running

In 2016, marijuana sales in North America grew by a massive 30 percent, and sales are projected to reach $20.2 Many states have only legalized cannabis for medical use, but that’s gradually changing as well. Currently, one in five Americans lives in a state where they can use cannabis recreationally, without a doctor’s note.

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10 Reasons For Joining The New Startup Wave Now

Startup Professionals Musings

According to the latest Kaufman Startup Activity Index , entrepreneurs are making an unprecedented comeback in America, with data showing the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). Mixing metaphors, the attempt to accelerate the scaling process is a bit like asking a baby to be incubated in six months (dangerous). So VCs will need to invest.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #9: How, and why, to ask for help

Austin Startup

They pulled themselves up by their bootstraps?—?except So in America, 1776 is in our DNA. They not only invented business models, they also invented a new form of government, which was incredibly radical for that time. They took on the world’s greatest modern empire and they prevailed. except they couldn’t afford boots at that time.