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[Review] The $100 Startup

YoungUpstarts

By bootstrapping, bartering, reducing overheads (rental and manpower), and leveraging technology (especially the web), one can start one’s own business almost on a dime without being beholden to creditors or venture capitalists. Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”.

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

Transformify

Transformify, an online platform providing remote work to those who need it the most, announces a new partnership with Laboratoria , a Latin-American social enterprise that gives low-income women the access to education and work in tech, transforming their future and bringing diversity to the tech world.

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How To Get The Most Out Of A Startup Accelerator

ReadWriteStart

I have been a part of both Startup Chile and now TechStars in Boston. I participated in Teens In Tech, an amazing accelerator for teens. We’re a battery technology company, so we didn’t benefit much from having access to desk space, computing resources or the community of predominantly Internet entrepreneurs.

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First Impressions Matter: Why Great Visual Design Is Essential

ConversionXL

In an experiment conducted to study the effects of product expectations on subjective usability ratings, participants read a positive or a negative product review for a novel mobile device before a usability test. Positive product reviews primed users to have a more positive experience, even when they failed to complete an assigned task.

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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

As IT talent becomes scares in many technology hubs like London, New York, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Berlin and many other big cities, the employers are left with no other option than looking for talent elsewhere in the world. .’’ London, 18.08.2018. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

This is due to systemic regulatory failure and the unintended consequences of ill-conceived regulation that disproportionately negatively impacts startups. The fact that Singapore, Brazil, India, China, Chile, the U.K., warned a technology forum this week that without a change in U.S. .” (ix) The U.S.