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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica. Entrepreneurs from Latin and Central America were given first priority to pitch their businesses at today's roundtable co-hosted by Innova Tiquicia and Startup Weekend Costa Rica. and each book costs $375 retail. Words To Live By.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

ReadWriteStart

and Singapore at significantly higher prices and presumably would be open to sourcing lower-cost parts. Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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How To Start A Medical Tourism Business

YoungUpstarts

Another important function of the medical tourism facilitator, besides functioning as a liaison between the patient and medical personnel, is to find an affordable package for the customer that includes costs related to travel expenses, medical bills, lodging costs, and so on. Costa Rica: Cosmetic surgery. Local Market.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

I remember last year settling into the booth of a café deep in the rainforest in Costa Rica and looking up to see a placard on the table begging for a positive TripAdvisor review. I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college.

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12 Questions: Meet Pamela Harvey (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

When the buyer set up his/her website with the new logo created on cS, the search engines kept taking people to that design in my portfolio. At least it doesn’t cost me money. My other primary pastimes are running, gym workouts, cycling and knitting, the costs of which can add up fast. Knitting is another money eater.