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How Traveling Helped Me Prepare for Startup Life

Up and Running

After that, we spent the next three months traveling all over Chile and Argentina without incident. At one point we got off a bus in Bariloche, Argentina, and started seeking out a hostel that a few other travelers had mentioned. I remember landing in Santiago, Chile on my first ever trip out of the U.S.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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Since coming to Australia in 2004 my passion for creativity was further boosted and was well alive while still doing my business degree and working in corporate world until 2011. I originally came from Argentina, and lived in Brazil and Venezuela before moving to the US. Mike & Aaron May, Pacific Issue ! #12)

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David Teten

After studying Biotechnolo gy at London University, he worked in over 18 countries on the production side of the film business, setting up desert camps in Jordan, managing huge projects and teams from India to Argentina. In 2004, Roo founded we:nited magazine – a youth politics magazine and website.

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