ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

One-fifth of New York’s entrepreneurs are women and it’s home to twice as many female-run startups as Silicon Valley. “I guess there are a lot of reasons for this,” Hermann says, “but what is really interesting is that the number of female entrepreneurs has not influenced at all the performance of the ecosystem.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2018

Cornerstone continues to explore its Cascabel copper-gold discovery in Ecuador as well as other properties in Ecuador and Chile. Recently, Glen McKay spoke to Young Upstarts about how challenging the entrepreneur journey can be and offers some advice to those just getting started. Lead by example!

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David Cohen

DECEMBER 2, 2012

I spent the past few days in Santiago, Chile, playing tennis with an ex-pro, having lunch with Al Gore…you know, the usual grind. I was there to take part as a speaker at Common Pitch Chile , where I met a bunch of interesting entrepreneurs who are doing really exciting things.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In my previous podcast with my friend and entrepreneur Wences Casares, we talked about the ability of entrepreneurs down here to see global markets that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs might miss. In our second conversation, we now turn to the topic of how blitzscaling works when you’re not in Silicon Valley or China.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

Espousing that borrowing money and debt are optional, the book proposed that entrepreneurs starting such businesses were more interested in the lifestyle it offered rather than making oodles of cash. Positioned as a guide for bootstrapping solopreneurs, the book doesn’t dive deeply into any one specific domain.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Over my career as a serial entrepreneur I observed that since the late 1990s, no early-stage Silicon Valley investor had used business plans to screen investments. I realized this class was teaching students exactly what it felt like to be an entrepreneur! Even those who asked for them never read them. And there it was. Berkeley-wide.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Santiago de Chile is an understatedly cool city. Sure, it doesn’t have the classical buildings of Buenos Aires or the ageless allure of Rio, but what’s lacking in historic charm is made up for with a modernity that achieves being progressive yet unpretentious.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 6, 2018

At the time that I was leading the company, Cornerstone Capital Resources was looking to expand outside of Newfoundland & Labrador and we were fortunate enough to find prospective mineral properties in Ecuador and Chile. Glen McKay: You need motivation and determination to be successful as an entrepreneur.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Silicon Valley is made up of solely one industry: technology, whereas countries in emerging markets have existing industries, around which entrepreneurs are innovating. Although entrepreneurs need to practice their pitches (and English). Many startups are Silicon Valley clones. Startups are aiming for a global, not local market.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In recent years, startup accelerators and startup incubators have become the place of choice for any budding entrepreneurs to be the next unicorn. Incubators, on the other hand, are focused on building the entrepreneurship foundation of first-time entrepreneurs. It lasts longer than an accelerator, usually 6 months to a year.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2016

It’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot. If you search Google News for something like “new startup accelerator,” it will return hundreds of headlines from all over the world.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

First started in San Francisco, Founder Friday events draw an average of 350 attendees and take place the first Friday of every month, providing the opportunity for female entrepreneurs to interconnect while listening to valuable keynote speeches from local female founders. “Google is excited to team up with Women 2.0

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

To find out how real startup founders dealt with the accelerator issue, we asked eight successful entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) to share their experiences – and their advice for other founders considering a startup accelerator. I have been a part of both Startup Chile and now TechStars in Boston.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2016

I first heard the name Gondwana when my brother brought me a CD home from Chile. Thanks to Marc Prosser, Fit Small Business. #11 11 – Sharing a Passion with the World. Image Credit : Jared Sternberg. He was on a surf trip and was raving about the reggae band he saw live who was named after the ancient super continent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2010

Entrepreneurs who search for real pain points, and build solutions around them, have the best chance of changing the world. As an alternative, if you are an entrepreneur looking for the next big thing, where should you look? That’s the great thing about being an entrepreneur. Some kind of natural or man-made disaster.

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Up and Running

APRIL 10, 2017

See Also: 5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Traveling the World. I remember landing in Santiago, Chile on my first ever trip out of the U.S. After that, we spent the next three months traveling all over Chile and Argentina without incident. Finding out just how little I knew.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 6, 2012

Whitehill is founder of Entrepreneur Week , the Greek version of which was inspired by riots protesting the country’s austerity moves. Entrepreneurs as Outcasts. According to Whitehill, entrepreneurs are “viewed as outcasts in Greece.” In Greece, “Entrepreneurs don’t have a place to go - so many have left the country.”.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 31, 2010

So we elect an entrepreneur as President, who promises to unleash the free market to restore our economic engine of growth and prosperity. This new leader slashes taxes and cuts through the red tape that has bogged down entrepreneurs for generations. Take a look to our south at Chile. Want to see what this future looks like?

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The Next Web

JULY 21, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Güimar Vaca Sittic , a two time Internet entrepreneur currently working at Quasar Ventures based in Buenos Aires, and a Startup Chile Judge. Being an entrepreneur is all about enthusiasm and energy. Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion' Image credit: Thinkstock.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 3, 2016

As a result, we lose out to other countries as non-US founders start their ventures to countries like Canada, Chile, or Singapore instead of the US, often because it’s impossible for them to get appropriate visas to create their companies while living in the US. The day will also include the release of new state-specific research.

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The Next Web

APRIL 27, 2013

Thrust into a constant state of either too much or too little regulation, entrepreneurs in emerging economies are keenly aware of how the success of one enterprise often leads to a copy-cat setting up shop across the street. entrepreneurs eager to experience the benefits of being first-movers in what will eventually become mature industries.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 5, 2013

What most entrepreneurs don’t take into account is the cost of investment. Last year while participating Startup Chile, I got the chance to meet Kevin Koym , a serial entrepreneur running an accelerator in Austin. Entrepreneur Insider tnwcontributors' These small businesses are the backbone of American capitalism.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In recent years, startup accelerators and startup incubators have become the place of choice for any budding entrepreneurs to be the next unicorn. Incubators, on the other hand, are focused on building the entrepreneurship foundation of first-time entrepreneurs. It lasts longer than an accelerator, usually 6 months to a year.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 6, 2012

Inspired by Riots Whitehill is founder of Entrepreneur Week , the Greek version of which was inspired by riots protesting the country’s austerity moves. Entrepreneurs as Outcasts According to Whitehill, entrepreneurs are “viewed as outcasts in Greece.” Currently he’s thinking Chile, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Portugal and Brazil.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Entrepreneurs find the right innovations from networks and build them into products and services with business models. Entrepreneurs are the individuals and teams who put together the various insights and resources from networks—and then work to build the organizations that provide the new products and services.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

The fact that Singapore, Brazil, India, China, Chile, the U.K., If they did, there would be no higher legislative priority than promoting regulatory and tax reform to stimulate new capital formation and venture capital in the U.S. warned a technology forum this week that without a change in U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2012

For many young entrepreneurs, getting their parents’ support for a new venture can make a huge difference - emotionally, practically and even financially. Scott Thompson left a comfortable career with a good salary and excellent health benefits to start a business 5,000 miles from home as part of the entrepreneurship program Start-Up Chile.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JANUARY 21, 2011

that an estimated 63 million of these early-stage entrepreneurs expect. globe is critical, as it has been entrepreneurs who have led us out of almost every past recession. Policy makers need to look beyond simply the number of active entrepreneurs. Are these entrepreneurs creating jobs? The report states. 27 million.

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David Cohen

JUNE 16, 2015

At these events (there about 1,000 per year from Boulder to Mongolia to Chile to New Zealand), entrepreneurs and the community gather to build startups in 54 hours. The end result was an expanded community of entrepreneurs here in Boulder, many of whom I still keep in touch with today. Events were happening all over the world.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Conservative Party known as the “Big Society” has been launched and aims to empower local community entrepreneurs. 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. Comments comments Powered by Facebook Comments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Our sponsors continue to support the conference as well as deserving entrepreneurs. Our sponsors continue to support the conference as well as deserving entrepreneurs. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 20, 2013

In 2011, leaders in the tech and startup world lobbied for a “ Startup Visa ” that would allow immigrant entrepreneurs to receive a two-year visa if a qualified U.S. immigration policy, foreign entrepreneurs (and freelancers) will have to jump through a series of outdated bureaucratic hoops in order to work in the U.S.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2011

From Naveen Jain : Our unwillingness to champion entrepreneurs, no matter where they come from, is part of a larger attitude problem around entrepreneurship: We don’t celebrate their achievements as much as we should, and our government support of entrepreneurs is weak.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Chile’s Shantytowns Are a Last Resort — and Growing Fast [Eduardo Thomson/Bloomberg] – Historically sitting here in the US we’d expect to read stories like this about places distant from our own country. These tomas are growing at a dizzying rate all around Chile. That I can get behind.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 21, 2011

From my preliminary research, its appears there are many high impact student entrepreneurs coming out of leading research universities. Add to this the fact that the new world-class universities, whether in Chile, Hong Kong, India, South Korea, and the United States, also serve as hubs for new thinking in the humanities and social sciences.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur. Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. twenty in your wallet? equity debate.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Countries from Chile to Turkey have tried to cook up their own startup ecosystems in the past couple of years. ” The upside is that a lot of young people got their first taste of entrepreneuring and may very well be more successful the next time around. As a result, that will change the dynamics in the market fairly materially.”

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