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Announcing our summer intern class

David Teten

Since then, he has co-written several business plans with fellow classmates and recently served as team leader on a Wharton Field Challenge consulting project for PhillyCarShare, a Philadelphia-based car-sharing startup. David just completed his first year at Columbia Business School.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development. Business Model versus Business Plan Customer Development' Outside the U.S. Obviously this depends on industry and application.)

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FedEx Launches Small Business Grant Contest In Singapore And Hong Kong

YoungUpstarts

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp, is finally bringing its FedEx Small Business Grant Contest, a small business competition it first launched in the US three years ago to give small businesses have the chance to win grants to help them expand overseas into international markets, to Asia Pacific.

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Be a Benevolent Dictator (And Eight More Lessons For Getting Your Stalled Start-up Off The Ground)

YoungUpstarts

I always incorporated this mindset into my business plans, right down to my daily activities. I was thrilled that what I did employed 50,000 people and did business in every state but Vermont, with international operations in China, Japan, Brazil, and Mexico.

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Thoughts on Spanish Startups from La Red Innova 2011

VC Cafe

1) There’s a growing buzz around entrepreneurship - several people mentioned that in the past, students that graduated from college hurried to find a job in big company and in the case of Brazil also the government. Spain, Argentina and Brazil have relatively low levels of venture capital activities ( Invest in Spain confirms this).

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil. It could be the little girl in Iraq who grows up to be a scientist that makes the discovery which will one day save an American life.

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Social Enterprises Globally

Business Plan Blog

The 2012 Social Enterprise World Forum, hosted by NESsT, is taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in October. NESsT was co-founded by an American and a Chilean in 1997 and is currently a registered charity in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Hungary, Peru, Romania, the U.K. and the U.S.

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