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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

I’ve known Professor Cristobal Garcia since 2010 when he hosted my first visit to Catholic University in Santiago of Chile and to southern Patagonia. He presented to organizations in the Netherlands, Chile, Spain, the UK (Ministry of Defense and the BBC), and aerospace companies. Yet, everyone got the message pretty quickly.

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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

by Marc Pitart, founder and CEO of onlineresume.us. To give you a practical example, I’d like to analyze the reasons why my startup was rejected from participating in Start-Up Chile ’s Generation 17. Acceleration and incubation programs are on the rise and have helped start and scale many successful businesses over the past 10 years.

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[INTERVIEW] Glen McKay, Newfoundland Business Leader, Co-Founder of Newfoundland Hard-Rok, Inc.

YoungUpstarts

Cornerstone continues to explore its Cascabel copper-gold discovery in Ecuador as well as other properties in Ecuador and Chile. In 1997, Glen co-founded Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc., Recently, Glen McKay spoke to Young Upstarts about how challenging the entrepreneur journey can be and offers some advice to those just getting started.

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Entrepreneur Runs Coding Academy To Help Students Gain Real-world Software Development Skills

Hearpreneur

Marcelo Ricigliano is the co-founder of 4Geeks Academy , a Miami based coding academy with campuses in USA, Chile and Venezuela. We now have campuses in the US, Chile, and Venezuela, with more than 400 graduates and a job placement ratio of 90%. How did you come up with your business name?

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Transformify Partners with Laboratoria to Empower Young Women and Girls in Latin America

Transformify

Lilia Stoyanova, CEO and Co-Founder of Transformify: “I’m very excited about our partnership as we’ll be able to offer remote job opportunities to Laboratoria’s students. In 2 years we have trained more than 400 students in Peru, Chile, and México.

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Women 2.0 Partners Google, Extends Founder Friday Events

YoungUpstarts

Both companies will jointly be investing in activities that foster innovation and supporting startups, beginning with Women 2.0 ‘s signature networking event Founder Friday. has held over 200 Founder Friday events in 30 global cities. has held over 200 Founder Friday events in 30 global cities. To date, Women 2.0

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Chile, Entrepreneurs, Endeavor, and Global Lessons

Reid Hoffman

Part of why I’m on this trip with Wences Casares (founder and CEO of Xapo ) is to learn (and share) a broader view of entrepreneurship, where the strategies of Blitzscaling can be applied outside of Silicon Valley and China, and participate in Endeavor’s critical global mission for building the industries, companies, and jobs of the future.

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