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Welcome to the culture of Extremistan

Start Up Blog

Now hardcore globe trotters visit Afghanistan and Honduras to ensure their story gathers more kudos. Now they involve near death experiences on tropical islands to win millions of dollars and potential reality stardom. Travel Stories used to be interesting enough when someone visited far flung Asia or eastern Europe.

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5 Takeaways from the 2012 Skoll World Forum | Stanford Social Innovation Review

Campus Entrepreneurship

John Saul over at Stanford Social Innovation Review blog shares his thoughts after attending the Skoll World Forum. Ned describes his organization’s work as creating new “water economies” in emerging markets like Rwanda and Honduras, and has leveraged the private sector to catalyze his market development efforts.

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Who are we? And where do we come from? (2011 edition)

crowdSPRING Blog

Buyers from Honduras accounted for 0.014% of projects last year. Take a look here to see how the Top 10 have changed in each year over year: Here are some updated facts about our registered Buyers: In the last year, crowdSPRING buyers come from 79 countries, up from 68 in 2009.

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the world without altgate

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million The Coming Venture Capital Boom → The World Without Altgate Posted on January 1, 2009 by fnazeeri No, this blog is not going anywhere.    It is an amazing tool. 

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Social Trends Podcast: We Are Storytellers Weaving Stories With Customers

Brandanew

In Honduras, the greatest compliment you can give a person is, “Listo” meaning, you’re ready. This whole Podcast with the references and links is available on the Brandanew Blog. It does make you reflect on what you would have done as a brand in the biggest recession that we’ve experienced in our lifetimes. Don’t you think?

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