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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil. People ask me if innovation can flourish in places like Africa and my response is that I encounter innovation everywhere there, when people are forced to innovate to survive, often with scarce resources.

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. The fact that Singapore, Brazil, India, China, Chile, the U.K., Of the 85 IPOs priced so far this year, only 28 are up. ” (ix) The U.S.

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Social Enterprises Globally

Business Plan Blog

The 2012 Social Enterprise World Forum, hosted by NESsT, is taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in October. NESsT was co-founded by an American and a Chilean in 1997 and is currently a registered charity in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Hungary, Peru, Romania, the U.K. and the U.S.

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What if it’s 1996, not 1999?

Seeing Both Sides

In 1997, a Charles River Ventures fund yielded a stunning 15x return, backing such superstars as Ciena, Vignette and Flycast. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR. But what if it’s actually more akin to 1996?

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I originally came from Argentina, and lived in Brazil and Venezuela before moving to the US. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. Mike & Aaron May, Pacific Issue ! #12) 12) We Wanted to Help.

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Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership Required

Seeing Both Sides

The Kauffman Foundation’s research on this matter is clear: from 1997 to 2005, job growth in the US was driven entirely by start-ups. Huge emerging economies in India and Brazil need to be opened up more aggressively with the help of the Congress and White House. It’s new businesses.