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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

Entrepreneurs from Latin and Central America were given first priority to pitch their businesses at today's roundtable co-hosted by Innova Tiquicia and Startup Weekend Costa Rica. He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We currently operate a large 17,000 square foot facility, 5 stores to sell products in, and a distribution business to sell the product to retailers. My co founder Jonathan Hill realised how important good food was due to his father passing away from eating poorly. We have worked with over 700 food companies.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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New York Startup Exversion is Making Data Sexy (StartupBus Post #9)

Up and Running

Tal Flanchraych , Marianne Bellotti and Jacek Grebski teamed up on the NY bus to create a unified API for the world’s open data, and publishing tools for companies who want to distribute their data. These three co-founders even headed out west when they scored an interview with Y-Combinator.

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Mass Relevance Launches with Funding

Austin Startup

“I have been very surprised at Austin’s strength in “IT consumerization&# – ideas that combine business software value with consumer internet distribution ideas,&# he said. Q: Your co-founders have been working on some technology in their spare time. Some started with funding and some were bootstrap.

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