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Argentina Entrepreneurship, Endeavor, and Global Lessons

Reid Hoffman

I’ve come down to Argentina with my friend and portfolio company CEO, Wences Casares , the founder of Xapo. Silicon Valley has the rare privilege and good fortune to be one of the most amazing entrepreneurial networks in the world. We’ve captured many of these lessons in my book Blitzscaling and my podcast Masters of Scale.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

Should those entrepreneurs who have built their business elsewhere move to Silicon Valley to raise money? 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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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Home Swappers Club.

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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

As IT talent becomes scares in many technology hubs like London, New York, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Berlin and many other big cities, the employers are left with no other option than looking for talent elsewhere in the world. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

Want to spend a year or more in Argentina? years in LA (early 90’s) many of my friends left to start companies in Silicon Valley. Tim Ferriss’ assertion is that you should try to pursue an entrepreneurial job where you can take control of your life and your hours. Andrew Warner from Mixergy is doing it.

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For tech to develop in emerging economies, the first obstacle is trust

The Next Web

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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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). 3) You don’t have to be in Silicon Valley to start a successful startup [or do you?]. 3) You don’t have to be in Silicon Valley to start a successful startup [or do you?].

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