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Startups Seeking Sherpas

Genuine VC

After we sold our startup Sombasa Media just over a dozen years ago, I embarked on two distinct “journeys.” The second was a trip where we hiked the “ Inca Trail ” in Peru to Machu Picchu. All along my professional career I’ve aggressively proactively sought mentors to help with the journey.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

I'm really fortunate that I'd found a wonderful development outsource partner in them. Thanks Swamykant www.yourdigitalspace.com Diego Ferreyra I personally work for a US based company from home, and I live in Peru. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September. Nice Article.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Many international entrepreneurs are looking at what is working in the USA and cloning them in various countries, our venue partner in Rio De Janeiro, Peixe Urbano (which means “Urban Fish” in Portuguese) is based upon the Groupon model. Many startups are Silicon Valley clones.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? He wasn't a media star. So first of all, what a testament to social media and its power to reach- Tomas Pueyo : Huge. I talk with people in Kenya, in Peru, in Mexico and in Bangladesh, and it is just so hard.