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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

Duct Tape Marketing

My grandparents ran a very large cookie and bread factory in Bolivia. Carolyn Rodz (03:04): So I started out actually my career as an investment banker and jumped into entrepreneurship quite blindly. I had been exposed to it a lot as a child. I struggled with inventory management.

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New Story and 3D Printed Homes

Feld Thoughts

In the past four years, New Story has funded over 2,200 homes, building 17 communities for over 11,000 people across Mexico, Haiti, El Salvador, and Bolivia. They were young and inexperienced but had a strong conviction to do things differently as a nonprofit which appealed to me.

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Exploring The Everyday: Janji Wants You To Change The World By Running

View from Seed

We travel to locations, for example Bolivia, and work with artists and makers there to design apparel. Highlighting these cool places around the world, be it in the mountains in Bolivia or in the chaos of Katmandu in Nepal, we want to highlight those stories and highlight those people who are doing really cool things.

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Five years ago exactly, I started my round the world trip

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

If you speak French you will be able to learn how I ended up sleeping in toilets at the top of the Fuji Mount or how I found myself hunting for anacondas in Bolivia. To celebrate this fifth anniversary, I have brought back online my travel blog where I reported my adventures during my trip.

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Five years ago exactly, I started my round the world trip

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

If you speak French you will be able to learn how I ended up sleeping in toilets at the top of the Fuji Mount or how I found myself hunting for anacondas in Bolivia. To celebrate this fifth anniversary, I have brought back online my travel blog where I reported my adventures during my trip.

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? The good news: There are good answers to these questions!

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8 Challenges When Scaling Your New Venture Worldwide

Startup Professionals Musings

Even the venerable McDonald’s failed to recognize that in Bolivia, their price per meal was off the charts compared to indigenous alternatives. For example , Starbucks’ first efforts to expand to Israel and the Middle East failed miserably due to a totally different “coffee culture” there, not accommodated adequately.

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