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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

business #entrepreneur #startup #story #why #ceo #ceoblognation #CEOs #hearpreneur. My idea was that during market downturns, people need to invest in marketing and reputation management because that’s when marketing matters most. I originally came from Argentina, and lived in Brazil and Venezuela before moving to the US.

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Announcing our investment in Celo — a monetary system to create conditions of prosperity for all

Version One Ventures

Until recently, he has been a computer science professor at MIT and invented EigenTrust, a well known algorithm for managing reputation and trust online. Co-founders Rene Reinsberg and Marek Olszewski previously founded local business data startup Locu, an MIT spinout that was sold to GoDaddy Inc.