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Transformify Partners with Laboratoria to Empower Young Women and Girls in Latin America

Transformify

A great number of women in Latin America are unemployed or not employed officially, due to various reasons. Also, according to the UNDP report the women of Latin America and the Caribbean work three times more at home (unpaid work) than men. In 2 years we have trained more than 400 students in Peru, Chile, and México.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Our winner in Rwanda Zilencio Creativo is a Kickstarter clone; When asked why the founders built a clone they told us they were unable to put a project on Kickstarter as the legalities state it’s for USA users only. In Rio we stayed with the founders of Resolveai, an Uber clone. But startups are also solving local problems.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

ReadWriteStart

Whitehill is founder of Entrepreneur Week , the Greek version of which was inspired by riots protesting the country’s austerity moves. He teamed up with a number of Greek organizations, associations and institutions, including CoLab Athens (Greece’s first co-working space), which offers workshops and accelerator programs to startups.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

ReadWriteStart

Inspired by Riots Whitehill is founder of Entrepreneur Week , the Greek version of which was inspired by riots protesting the country’s austerity moves. Given those kinds of attitudes, it’s hard to argue with Whitehill’s contention that “it’s relatively easy in America to start a business.” Ignore the odds; be a survivor. Partnerships.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

If you want the site to translate ancient Arabic poetry to Spanish to increase global tolerance, just say, “Translate paragraphs from Arabic to Spanish.” Bless you, chile! Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Co-founders and outsourcing work the same.