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Entrepreneur Runs Coding Academy To Help Students Gain Real-world Software Development Skills

Hearpreneur

Marcelo Ricigliano is the co-founder of 4Geeks Academy , a Miami based coding academy with campuses in USA, Chile and Venezuela. Our team, all the way from the US to South America, works together sharing the same values, vision, and approach. towards finding a new job in the field.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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He grew up in Colombia, South America. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup. Technical founder. It was all technical.

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This Friday at NYU-Annual Stern Private Equity Conference

David Teten

Keynote Speakers are Andrea Bonomi (Chairman of Investindustrial), Mark Dzialga (Managing Director and Chairman of the Investment Committee at General Atlantic) & me. The Stern Private Equity Club will host its 8 th Annual Stern Private Equity Conference on Friday, March 1 st , 2013.

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Mobile Payment Platform Swiff Launches in Singapore; Targets Other Markets

YoungUpstarts

This payment solution was beta-tested by merchants such as Russian-themed restaurant and caviar bar Buyan in Singapore since June last year, and is now launched worldwide, with the company targeting Southeast Asia, South Africa and South America as key target markets.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

When we told some friends about our experience, we began to hear from property owners who said they only wanted to rent out their homes part-time but couldn’t find any property manager willing to let them do that. Thanks to Garrett Ham, Weekender Management, LLC ! #3- 3- The name should say what we do. Photo Credit: Eric Elggren.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

Both Sides of the Table

Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. Scott Lahman , Zack Norman & Austin Murray were the three co-founders of JAMDAT, the most successful mobile 1.0 He also was an executive talent at Activision having designed & managed two products (Mechwarrior 2 and ?Interstate

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► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.