YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Marcelino Lopez, Colombia. Lopez and his family were living in a plastic tent in Barrio Nelson Mandela, Colombia, with $300 to his name. When The Baptist University of the Americas asked him to set up shop on campus, he financed the project with a $4,265 loan from ACCION Texas-Louisiana to secure supplies and part-time employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

My dad was an immigrant from Colombia. His father, my grandfather, ended up in South America after fleeing Jewish oppression in Romania. They called the partner in America responsible for the project, Grieg Coppe, put him on the phone and he said, “what the hell are you doing there?” at least I got to visit Japan!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

The updated list of locations is below: Streaming Sponsor Africa Cape Town, South Africa: [link] Asia Chennai, India: [link] Pune, India: [link] Europe Athens, Greece: [link] Barcelona, Spain: [link] Belfast, Northern Ireland: [link] Berlin, Germany: [link] Brescia, Italy: [link] Brighton, England, UK: [link] Brussels, Belgium: [link] Bucharest, Romania: (..)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2011

Streaming Sponsor Africa Cape Town, South Africa: [link] Asia Pune, India: [link] Europe Barcelona, Spain: [link] Brussels, Belgium: [link] Eindhoven, The Netherlands: [link] Göteborg, Sweden: [link] The Hague, The Netherlands: [link] Lisbon, Portugal: [link] London, United Kingdom: [link] Madrid (@TetuanValley), Spain: [link] Madrid (@EOI), Spain: (..)

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Mexico became the most straightforward economy for doing business in Latin America, overtaking Colombia. Mexican firms can file their taxes on the web, which is still impossible in most Latin American countries.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2013

He grew up in Colombia. ” He grew up in South America. so you already know that I didn’t get my height from Dad. I’m 5 foot 10 when there’s a strong wind. Not South Carolina – that’s Columbia with a “u.” In Medellín, actually. Although his father was raised in Romania. Jewish Emigrants.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

After a stint as the President of North America at BBC Worldwide, Herb is returning to his roots in both digital and Latino. We = my father is from Colombia, South America, immigrated to the U.S. This isn’t your grandmother’s Univision or telenovelas. His son then went on to raise more than $1.1 billion to finance US startups.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Here's the latest list: Streaming Sponsor Africa Cape Town, South Africa: [link] Asia Chennai, India: [link] Pune, India: [link] Europe Barcelona, Spain: [link] Belfast, Northern Ireland: [link] Berlin, Germany: [link] Brescia, Italy: [link] Brighton, England, UK: [link] Brussels, Belgium: [link] Bucharest, Romania: [link] Cambridge, UK: [link] Cluj-Napoca, (..)

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Their leather shoes and accessories are handmade by previously unemployed artisans in Colombia. They start off with a shocking statistic informing backers that one in four children in America are growing up functionally illiterate. Take Mamahuhu shoes and bags, who completed their first Kickstarter campaign 140 percent over target.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

He grew up in Colombia, South America. Well, for starters, I was born in Philadelphia, so I’m a lifelong Eagles fan. I grew up in Northern California. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician with zero interest or knowledge in business at all. He still speaks Spanish more than he speaks English. His father came from Romania.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2010

Albaugh, which was founded in 1979, has six plants in the US, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina, and a joint venture in China, and its South American sales in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile complement Makhteshim’s business in Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador. ISRAEL’S KAMADA GETS FDA APPROVAL FOR INNOVATIVE DRUG. Kamada won U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

I come from a family of sailors, so I grew up sailing small boats in a harbor off the coast of Connecticut, on Long Island sound, and my husband and I actually took some time off in the early 90’s, cruising around Central America for three years on our 40-ft. We lived in Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, and Colombia.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2016

I remember fondly my dad (from Colombia) wanting to eat out of the house and experience the best multi-cultural foods one could actually find in middle-class, suburban Sacramento in the 70s & 80s. America is us. It wasn’t much but it’s a memory of father and son, a deeply engrained and nostalgic part of childhood.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2015

America wasn’t originally welcoming to Jews either. He ended up on a ship that landed in South America where he traveled selling cutlery via a llama until he ended up in Medellin, Colombia. My father grew up in Colombia and to this day still mostly speaks Spanish (about 80% of the time). We’re human.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

The co-founder of Google wasn’t born in America nor was the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, WhatsApp, Yahoo! But his biological father was Abdul Fattah Jandali — a migrant who came to America fleeing political oppression in his native country of …. and the founder of eBay and many others. Yeah, he was born in San Francisco.

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