Reid Hoffman
DECEMBER 6, 2019
I’ve come down to Argentina with my friend and portfolio company CEO, Wences Casares , the founder of Xapo. Silicon Valley has the rare privilege and good fortune to be one of the most amazing entrepreneurial networks in the world. We’ve captured many of these lessons in my book Blitzscaling and my podcast Masters of Scale.
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 9, 2010
It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week, religiously. In terms of monetization, Vin expects the ad networks to supply ads to his site by selling ads to local restaurants. That sounds great.
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Austin Startup
JANUARY 31, 2018
We moved onto a video call whilst watching the same thing, me in Argentina and my dad in London. But rather than being on a public text chat, the user has an option to “form a private room” and invite friends via a social network or a direct link. My dad called me on the phone to watch it together, separated by 13,000 miles.
VC Cafe
JUNE 20, 2011
1) There’s a growing buzz around entrepreneurship - several people mentioned that in the past, students that graduated from college hurried to find a job in big company and in the case of Brazil also the government. Spain, Argentina and Brazil have relatively low levels of venture capital activities ( Invest in Spain confirms this).
VC Cafe
APRIL 7, 2011
Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators. DELL INAUGURATES ISRAELI R&D CENTER, DOUBLES WORKERS.
VC Cafe
APRIL 8, 2010
The 2-year model, which was also backed by the Bank of Israel, will allow the government to present a long term plan and maintain market stability. The ministers also unanimously approved Steinitz’s proposal to implement a calculation system that would increase the government’s annual expense rate from 1.7%
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 19, 2015
Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. I originally came from Argentina, and lived in Brazil and Venezuela before moving to the US. I had previously worked at an executive level in the government, specialising in international relations.
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