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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

Duct Tape Marketing

My grandparents ran a very large cookie and bread factory in Bolivia. I mean, is it a startup or is it somebody trying to scale or is it just everything And. Carolyn Rodz (03:04): So I started out actually my career as an investment banker and jumped into entrepreneurship quite blindly. I had been exposed to it a lot as a child.

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Five years ago exactly, I started my round the world trip

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

If you speak French you will be able to learn how I ended up sleeping in toilets at the top of the Fuji Mount or how I found myself hunting for anacondas in Bolivia. To celebrate this fifth anniversary, I have brought back online my travel blog where I reported my adventures during my trip.

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Five years ago exactly, I started my round the world trip

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

If you speak French you will be able to learn how I ended up sleeping in toilets at the top of the Fuji Mount or how I found myself hunting for anacondas in Bolivia. To celebrate this fifth anniversary, I have brought back online my travel blog where I reported my adventures during my trip.

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is Part 2 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.??? No, wait, the real question is: What are you going to do when another smart, scrappy startup copies it, and gets $10m in funding, and is thrice featured on TechCrunch? What if someone copies your awesome business idea? The Dream Team.

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The Potential for Fraud Caused by the Unnecessary Mystery of the Family Office World

This is going to be BIG.

Of course I am—Bolivia is a landlocked country.) How would you know if I showed up to an investor conference, took meetings with startups, and acted serious about putting money to work in venture on behalf of a family office whether I was telling the truth? Actually, I’m completely making that up. (Of But how would you know?

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8 Challenges When Scaling Your New Venture Worldwide

Startup Professionals Musings

Even the venerable McDonald’s failed to recognize that in Bolivia, their price per meal was off the charts compared to indigenous alternatives. For example , Starbucks’ first efforts to expand to Israel and the Middle East failed miserably due to a totally different “coffee culture” there, not accommodated adequately.

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