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6/16: What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

David Teten

Our session looks at the rise of socially enabled platforms that blend commerce with community, where reputations trump credit ratings, and where hyper-distributed service businesses outgrow traditional monolithic suppliers. He sits on the boards of Medecins Du Monde UK (Doctors of the World) and the Bronx Community Charter School.

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Thoughts on Spanish Startups from La Red Innova 2011

VC Cafe

Spain, Argentina and Brazil have relatively low levels of venture capital activities ( Invest in Spain confirms this). 4) The concept of networking is new here. Social networks are popular in Spain (especially Twitter and Facebook) and people are very social and personable, but business networking is only starting to bloom in Spain.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

When you support that platform with inspirational and informative subject matter that helps guide people along the way, and then offer them a community of service providers who can help round out their team—well, that’s the ticket. I originally came from Argentina, and lived in Brazil and Venezuela before moving to the US.