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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.

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Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America

Steve Blank

I got to see the peak of America’s manufacturing prowess in the 1970s, when we actually made things – before we shipped the factories and jobs overseas. First , America was built on workers who believed that their hard work would allow their children to have opportunities to do better. The Janesville’s across the U.S.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. of Elon’s ideas to come to fruition and let him fail on the rest. I’d love even 0.5%

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Business Immigration With CanadaCIS: How To Start A Successful Business In Canada

YoungUpstarts

Rest assured that your business is located in a strategic and favorable business climate. The study, which comprises 11 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, also showed that Canada’s business costs are the second-lowest recorded in the survey. There are limited risks and red tapes to worry about.

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Collision Conference Finds a New Home in Toronto Canada

ReadWriteStart

While I love having conferences close to home, I was really excited to see the news that the Collision Tech Conference , considered to be one of America’s fastest-growing tech conference, is moving to Toronto, Canada in 2019. Canadian Government Sees Economic Potential. This accounts for 15% of all jobs in the region.

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What Are the Risks of Using Personal Email for Board Business?

Board Effect

In the context of governance, board directors and executives are the new targets of choice. The survey contains responses from 411 governance professionals across 11 countries in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The percentage in North America was 53% which was the highest percentage in the study.

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Reflections of America this July 4th

Both Sides of the Table

July 4th is a special date in America. America is a place that has always welcomed the best from around the world. I invested in a company whose goal is to bring low-cost computing to inner-city schools in America. And get a feeling for the rest of the country. But in America nobody ever asked me where my dad came from.

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