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Isidoro Quiroga: “South America’s Warren Buffet” Mogul Makes Next Move

The Startup Magazine

Chilean billionaire and entrepreneur Isidoro Quiroga has been called South America’s Warren Buffet for his near-perfect investment portfolio and his ability to transform businesses from small firms to global leaders. Quiroga has invested in companies in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. In my short time in Chile, I spent time meeting with: Chilean entrepreneurs ; as part of Santiago’s Startup Weekend as well as EmprendeUC - DUOC New Ventures Contest Awards ceremony. Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment.

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30 Entrepreneurs Describe The Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) For Their Business

Hearpreneur

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their daily, weekly, quarterly or yearly goals around their business. We asked entrepreneurs to share their Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) and here are the insightful responses. #1- And not only that, I want my company to go global by signing on more international brands.

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Entrepreneur Making Huge Strides in the Digital Age

Hearpreneur

It came naturally to me because my father was an entrepreneur painter, and my mother was an entrepreneur seamstress. Growing today, there is a thriving community of entrepreneurs and incubators for young talent. It is already incredibility simple to start a Facebook ads campaign, but it is equally challenging to generate sales.

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Sensitive Payments in the International Arena

Startup Professionals Musings

By Ernst Gemassmer I’ve seen several articles discussing global opportunities for startups, or recommending International expansion for growth. For our subsidiary, in one of the key countries of South America, these internal regulations dramatically complicated the task of obtaining various permissions from local authorities.

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DesignCrowd takes on 99Designs in the US, seeking to grow its crowdsourced design business tenfold

The Next Web

Lynch also tells us that the US has become the company’s biggest source of sales, making up 40 percent of the total. We see the biggest demand for crowdsourcing and our service coming from small businesses and entrepreneurs in the US who seem to love crowdsourcing. DesignCrowd. Headline image via Shutterstock.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Stock Quotes.