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Isidoro Quiroga: “South America’s Warren Buffet” Mogul Makes Next Move

The Startup Magazine

Chilean billionaire and entrepreneur Isidoro Quiroga has been called South America’s Warren Buffet for his near-perfect investment portfolio and his ability to transform businesses from small firms to global leaders. He currently owns businesses in Chile , Argentina, and Australia. He began his success in the agricultural industry.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

Next: : If you’re gonna go global, plan it from the start. Think global, start early. WhatsApp founder Jan Koum is an Ukranian immigrant, and I’m betting it had helped him realize the potential of going global from day one. ASO (Appstore Search Optimization) for apps plays a similar role to SEO for websites.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

Vin proposes to build a restaurant search, reviews and ratings site for the Malaysian market catering both to tourists and locals. Malaysia, India, China, Italy, Argentina, wherever), you are better off raising money locally. So it can be done, but you have to be really scrappy, creative and resourceful.

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Women 2.0 Partners Google, Extends Founder Friday Events

YoungUpstarts

has announced that it is partnering search giant Google to support the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the United States and around the world. has held over 200 Founder Friday events in 30 global cities. Media and event company Women 2.0 To date, Women 2.0 “Google is excited to team up with Women 2.0

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” echoes Labay’s sentiment: Search habits change. Managers can defy old mind-sets and creatively search for superior solutions. That crisis saw a global spending decrease of 9%, with U.S. Tim Stewart, trsdigital.

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The Great Cross-Border Opportunity

YoungUpstarts

In fact, the online retail market was projected to exceed US$1 trillion in key markets globally in 2014 by Forrester [1]. Of those, 46% said their hesitancy stemmed from the difficulty in verifying the seller’s reputation or trustworthiness—compared to a global average of just 21% who harbored this reservation**. trillion by 2018.

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Why it’s not easy to break into the Brazilian tech market – a chat with Boo-box’s Marco Gomes

The Next Web

Since the rise of Generation Y (or millennials), we changed the online behavior: we consume content and services from multiple sources, like blogs, social networks and online searches. TNW: Beyond Brazil you expanded into Argentina in 2011. Can you compete on a global scale? How has your expansion strategy developed?

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