YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Or TOMS shoe company founder Blake Mycoskie, who, on a trip to Argentina in 2006 met a woman in a café who was volunteering for a shoe drive. Take SpaceX’s Elon Musk, who after leaving PayPal said : “Going from PayPal, I thought: ‘Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?’

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Version One Ventures

MAY 7, 2020

Such events will push a lot more people to put their money in easy to buy digital currencies, either native cryptocurrencies (BTC – this might already be happening in Argentina ) or digital versions of the USD (like USDC or USDT). . Ethereum now has a very clear use case and a decentralized finance ecosystem is starting to emerge.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The event – which is currently held in cities such as San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Austin, New York, Boston, Madrid (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago (Chile), Bogota (Colombia), Mexico City (Mexico), Vancouver (Canada) – will be extended to include Detroit, Michigan and Mexico (..)

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

Blake Mycoskie visited Argentina in 2006 and saw children walking in the streets outside Buenos Aires without shoes. For every pair of shoes sold, TOMS would provide a new pair of shoes to children in Argentina and other developing countries. Mycoskie founded TOMS the same year and established a “buy one, give one” model.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

Some countries known as frontier markets are Argentina, Lebanon, Vietnam, Nigeria, Oman, Bahrain, and Bangladesh. Frontier markets are developing countries where it’s risky to invest in, but emerging markets are more stable. The bottom line is that emerging and frontier markets are still different from each other.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

I was originally born in Argentina, which can normally be found in the dictionary as the antonym to vegetarian (fellow Argentineans – don’t be offended, I’m half kidding).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 6, 2013

There is a good documentary about Bitcoin in Argentina that highlights similar concerns, in that case driven by the economy and inflation. Some attributed one of the recent rises in Bitcoin price to worries in Cyprus and Spain about the fragility of their banking systems.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2013

Where do we cross back to Argentina?” They swung into action both from Argentina and the United States, working with the airlines to get us from Bariloche to Buenos Aires and then beyond. By the way, coffee in Argentina is lousy. Open Starbucks up in Argentina and call it Estrella Pesos. Where will we spend the night?”

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Israel was also crowned as one of the ‘Rising Starts of 2010′ along with Chile, Argentina and Iceland. Israel moved in the right direction in 2010, climbing 11 spots to #30.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 6, 2020

Those in countries that have previously experienced massive inflation (Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Argentina) or capital controls (China, India) have long seen relative value in an asset that is independent of government financial manipulation.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Israel was also crowned as one of the ‘Rising Starts of 2010′ along with Chile, Argentina and Iceland. Israel moved in the right direction in 2010, climbing 11 spots to #30.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Israel was also crowned as one of the ‘Rising Starts of 2010′ along with Chile, Argentina and Iceland. Israel moved in the right direction in 2010, climbing 11 spots to #30.

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Up and Running

APRIL 10, 2017

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. All the places that had looked dangerous to us two weeks earlier seemed safe and comfortable now.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

ISRAEL TO TRADE FREELY WITH MERCOSUR; ARGENTINA – ISRAEL SIGN FTA. Argentina became the last of the South American Mercosur trade block of four to sign a free trade agreement with Israel. Trade with Argentina, on the other hand, only reached $130 million due to high tariffs on Israeli goods there.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But you only have to talk to people from high inflation countries like Argentina or Venezuela to understand the appeal of a globally-accessible and permissionless digital currency. Given the stability of the US dollar, Bitcoin’s value proposition as a store of value may not be easy to grasp for the mainstream user in the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

San Antonio Utah: Orem Provo Salt Lake City Virginia Ashburn Norfolk Reston Richmond Washington: Richland Seattle Walla Walla Wisconsin: Milwaukee Outside the United States Argentina: Buenos Aires Australia: Melbourne Sydney, NSW Ultimo, NSW Austria: Vienna Bahrain: Bahrain Barbados: Bridgetown Bermuda: Hamilton Brazil: Aracatuba Florianopolis Porto (..)

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Diego Basch

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I have a different perspective because I got my first degree at the University of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. Of course I always felt a sense of indebtedness to my fellow taxpayers, which was one of the reasons I chose to start a company in Argentina. In Argentina professors typically do not have their own textbooks.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Maria Mandagaran , a designer and a teacher in industrial design at Mar del Plata National University (Argentina), designed the winning logo using colors, fonts and design elements that effectively depicted the key elements of the 7 Billion Actions movement.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

If you’re struggling to build a substantial marketing list you can turn to a third-party resource to gain access to B2B contact information , for example something as specific as an Argentina business directory. Third parties – It might be a good option for you to sell your products through a retailer or wholesaler.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2017

Four companies later, he was taking a vacation in Argentina and saw a child without shoes. He went to college on a partial tennis scholarship, but when an injury ended his career, he decided to drop out to launch a business to solve a problem he’d noticed: the lack of a student laundry service. The rest is history. So here’s my advice.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 15, 2014

Here’s the story of a well-meaning client who needed to discreetly convert a contractor to an employee in Argentina. Even a little bit of research can go a long way to keeping employees happy, regulators appeased, and your board of directors off your back. Background We received a call from a distraught CFO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 11, 2011

Showcase of Web Design In Argentina Pt.1 Showcase of Web Design In Argentina Pt.2 Best Coming Soon Pages: Psychologically-Driven Signups – [link]. 8 Ways your Landing Page Design is Sabotaging your Click-Thru Rate – [link]. Five Low-Hanging UX Tips – [link]. 1 – [link]. 2 – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

Louis, MO: [link] Steamboat Springs, CO: [link] Tampa, FL: [link] Vancouver, BC: [link] Wilmington, DE: [link] Oceania Claremont, WA, Australia: [link] Wollongong, NSW, Australia: [link] South America Bogota, Colombia: [link] Buenos Aires, Argentina: [link] Curitiba, Brazil: [link] Florianópolis, Brazil: [link] Montevideo, Uruguay: [link] Porto Alegre, (..)

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

TNW: Beyond Brazil you expanded into Argentina in 2011. Here in Brazil the portals are still with a big share of the online advertising budget, and only on the last few years the traditional advertisers are looking for new ways to reach the target-audience, since they need to keep improving the ROI of their online advertising campaigns.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

So they began signing up Spanish-language content producers in Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and so forth. They realized that many Spanish speaking content producers weren’t being properly represented in online media and that many advertisers in the US trying to reach younger Latino audiences didn’t have the right opportunities.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 1, 2017

Before returning to his hometown of Austin, he spent much of his life in Mexico and Argentina; his wife Giselle is from Uruguay. Waugh is an experienced entrepreneur, marketer, and philanthropist. Originally trained in the world of advertising and marketing for the U.S.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 11, 2012

Because their partners in government – and whatever one’s political persuasion government is and will remain a key partner that must work well if business is to thrive (see Greece, Argentina, et al.) – have to and are working better. The process is slow. It is painful. It is cynical-inducing. But it is happening. Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

There were people from Argentina, Israel, India, France, New York, Washington, Nigeria, etc. Summer is over. Let's make things move! You can listen to the recording of today's roundtable here. We had an excellent Q&A at today's session. I always enjoy the international footprint of the program and hope that you do as well.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2013

Because you need to consider cultural context as well. Consider this example.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 22, 2010

And then a butterfly flaps its wings (this time in Argentina) and suddenly and inexplicably I decide against the indulgence of a Double Doozie Cookie ®. And then my cell phone goes off with a new tweet mentioning @asmartbear and my heart goes all aflutter (Ooo, attention! Please love me so I can love myself!). It's worse on the Internet.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 13, 2011

I won’t spoil the details, you will have to listen to the interview to learn how Scott went from quitting his job while living in Argentina and only a couple of weeks later having to put new clients on to a waiting list because he couldn’t service the demand (and the service costs as much as $1440 a month!).

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

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. The 2012 Social Enterprise World Forum, hosted by NESsT, is taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in October. and the U.S. Read more about the SEWF’s agenda and registration here.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 13, 2011

I won’t spoil the details, you will have to listen to the interview to learn how Scott went from quitting his job while living in Argentina and only a couple of weeks later having to put new clients on to a waiting list because he couldn’t service the demand (and the service costs as much as $1440 a month!).

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Diego Basch

MAY 30, 2013

When I was a teenager in Argentina in the 1980s, there was a weekly TV show called “ Feliz Domingo ” (Happy Sunday). It ran live for nine hours, between one and ten pm. It was a game show for high school students near graduation, who competed in events involving different skills.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Not bad considering that founding partner Dave McClure has been adamant about supporting non-US startups and recently acquired the Mexican.VC

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The Next Web

APRIL 27, 2013

Just as the first California wine to win a blind-tasting in France in 1976 created legitimacy for all wine producers in Northern California and created hope for producers in places such as Chile, Argentina and Australia, the success of one tech entrepreneur in an emerging market can lead to a new valuation for all who follow.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Segment the traffic from Argentina, Peru, Spain, Colombia, Chile and Denmark and you are on your way to the aforementioned world domination. But how did Argentina rank #1 (4k visits), Peru #2 (1.5k Here is what happened: Argentina Bounce ETV = (0.01*avg Argentina Bounce ETV = ( 0.01 * 63.49) + ( 0.99 * 79.53) = ETV = 79.37.

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