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Why The Best Young Entrepreneurs Are Purpose-Driven

YoungUpstarts

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. Following that conversation, Blake noticed how many shoeless children there were. Finally, we are products of the people around us, so create a community of empathetic people.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

But your community does matter. I built my first startup in Argentina during the economic crisis-turned-revolution in 2001,” writes Frederic Kerrest , “and my co-founder and I started Okta in the depths of the U.S. Survey design. Your people, too. Authenticity requires imperfection. Here are some things you can do. recession in 2009.”.

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Latinitas Volunteer Spotlight: T.C. Waugh

Austin Startup

Before returning to his hometown of Austin, he spent much of his life in Mexico and Argentina; his wife Giselle is from Uruguay. Waugh was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Latinitas Volunteer Spotlight: T.C.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Hunie: community for designers to help them get feedback from their peers. Everbill: invoice and estimate service. Iconfinder: site for icons.

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Thoughts on Spanish Startups from La Red Innova 2011

VC Cafe

I won’t get into the details of the presentation on mobile search and its impact on ecommerce, but rather, I want to share my quick insights on the atmosphere in Spain, based on my own observations and the conversations I had with both speakers and conference attendees. A few numbers about Spain. million people, a GDP of $1.47

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12 Questions: Meet Clara Garnier (México)

crowdSPRING Blog

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. Past livestream attendees have reported great conversations and networking. They represent more than 10,000 people total.