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What Does it Mean to be American? Why Trump is Just a Blip on the Radar

Both Sides of the Table

 —  @realdonaldtrump I have always taken the issue of immigration personally because I am the son of an immigrant from South America. Don’t get me started on hearing my dad ask for a “sheet of paper” or “to go to the beach” but if you have a parent born in South America you likely know what I’m talking about.

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Why the Former President of Nickelodeon Joined mitú as CEO.

Both Sides of the Table

We = my father is from Colombia, South America, immigrated to the U.S. was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. This isn’t your grandmother’s Univision or telenovelas. His son then went on to raise more than $1.1

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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

Both Sides of the Table

They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. An Insider’s Perspective was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. They’re acceptable.

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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. This stifles or shuts down the important “outlier” conversations that drive pivots and iterations in the discovery process. Their copies of the Four Steps were dog-eared and marked with sticky notes.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

Through comment conversations with many of you I tried to emphasize that it isn’t enough to just have one attribute. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). You need the whole package.

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The Most Important Thing I’ve Learned From Starting 3 eCommerce Companies

YoungUpstarts

I call this the “party conversation trick”. A few years ago while traveling in South America, he encountered a number of homeless cats which prompted him to start Tuft and Paw. . I know that litterboxes suck, which is why we’re designing a new litter box.

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Why All Business Founders Should Learn Basic Programming

YoungUpstarts

The conversations usually start with hushed tones, furtive glances and proclamations of that million dollar idea just waiting to get off the ground. Lee Shen Han has just returned from a half-year travel sabbatical around Europe and South America. I guess I don’t have a lot of friends). There’s really no excuse for you not to.