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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. Words To Live By.

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

ReadWriteStart

Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. Douglas has identified about 50 software companies in Costa Rica that may be willing to develop apps on top of the GeoInvenio platform. GeoInvenio. Recordings of previous online roundtables are all available here.

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. Altimeter Report: Social Commerce, How Brands Are Generating Revenue in Social Media - [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Community Building & NO!SPEC Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You – [link].

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Startups and small businesses are the backbone of this country, and being able to work alongside founders and owners to create value to their customers while seeing incredible personal growth is simply an incredible experience. I have the unique opportunity to design my life the way I want to, travel the world, and live here in Costa Rica.

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Why he is there and I am here

The Startup Toolkit

A few weeks ago, In Costa Rica, I talked to a guy whose company did 7 million revenue its first year. Founders' Now, a couple years on, he and his cofounders are taking a 5 million dividend apiece and it’s growing fast. I wanted to know why he can pull that off and I can’t. He’s 42; I’m 29.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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Ten Things I Will Never Have to Do Again

Software By Rob

But aside from these, there are some less obvious areas that we spend countless hours working on (and worrying about) that a single founder with no employees will never do again. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. If it grows in revenue that’s fantastic.