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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. Market size. Industry gaps.

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Meet our Startup Chica Committee Members

Austin Startup

Paulina Cabrera, Operation Coordinator for Solar Winds and Latinitas Volunteer Paulina Cabrera Paulina Cabrera grew up in Arlington, TX, but had the wonderful experience of living in Neiva, Colombia from 1997 to 2000. Paulina speaks both English and Spanish fluently due to being in primary and grade schools in both Colombia and the U.S.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain The Future Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

Educators are looking for tools and programs to help facilitate their transition into this new learning environment, making affordable to free software key to this niche industry. First, Latin America has stepped up its game in terms of providing financial access to SMBs and poor consumers through apps.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

And of course many of you know this is near and dear to me because my own father is from Medellín, Colombia so I grew up in a household with the music, food, culture and language of South America. So they began signing up Spanish-language content producers in Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and so forth.

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

Marcelino Lopez, Colombia. Lopez and his family were living in a plastic tent in Barrio Nelson Mandela, Colombia, with $300 to his name. Since its organization in 1999, SHARE has become the biggest microfinance institution in India, and its success has prompted other banks to begin their own microfinance programs.

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New speakers + Ignite + streaming locations

Startup Lessons Learned

New Speakers Our program keeps getting better and better. Check out the exact program , speaker bios , and how to register at our SLLCONF 2011 website. Don't be late, buy your ticket now. We've also added a number of extremely discounted tickets for full-time students.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

He grew up in Colombia, South America. I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data.

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