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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

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Jacqueline and her partner Cortney are designing and manufacturing the line out of China and selling in the U.S. Since 1M/1M is a global program, we have many entrepreneurs in various parts of the world who are building interesting businesses, and trying to determine how best to interface with the ecosystem that exists in Silicon Valley.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

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“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” Survey design. 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. recession in 2009.”.

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The United Nations and crowdSPRING

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The UN’s project on crowdSPRING asked designers to submit a visionary logo containing the words “7 Billion Actions” for a chance to receive $1,000 and a certificate signed by UNFPA’s Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin. Creative designers from around the world submitted more than 1,250 entries.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

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I´ve been hiring free lancers in mexico and argentina and after one month or so they all vanish. View More » Dev & Design 5 of the Best New User Experiences of. We have utilized most of these aspects at www.chicanedesign.com I would love to hear your feedback on anything else suggested Isaak bonaparte Good article.

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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). I see an opportunity in spotting innovation in these markets and globalizing their products and there’s also a gap in micro seed funding. 2) There’s a hunger for venture capital funding. Conclusions.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Professor Daniel Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has been designated the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 for his discovery of quasicrystals – a new form of matter that has become a major subject field for physicists, materials scientists, mathematicians, and crystallographers.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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Using our iPhone or Android apps or visiting Handwrytten.com, it is easy to select a card from our inventory of over 80 designs, tap out your message and select a handwriting style. Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. 12) We Wanted to Help.