Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

One piece of advice I can offer to small business owners in 2021 is to focus on employee happiness and overall mental health. First, Latin America has stepped up its game in terms of providing financial access to SMBs and poor consumers through apps. I am working hard to communicate with my employees daily.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

The benefits of microfinance have been debated since the ’70s when the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh began making tiny loans to impoverished small business owners. Marcelino Lopez, Colombia. Lopez and his family were living in a plastic tent in Barrio Nelson Mandela, Colombia, with $300 to his name.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

My father was a doctor, a pediatrician with zero interest or knowledge in business at all. 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. He still speaks Spanish more than he speaks English.

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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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