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

Transformify

They identify young women with the potential to learn programming and give them access to a comprehensive training program that gets them ready to work in just 6 months, covering the technical and soft skills highly demanded in the web development world such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, self-education, communication, etc.

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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. Let me cover the salient points of the book. Passion, Skill and Value.

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Chile’s pollution problems has led to green startups

The Next Web

Santiago de Chile is an understatedly cool city. Santiago on an unusually smogless morning.Creative… This story continues at The Next Web. This is especially true of its tech, an industry where Santiago’s innovations aren’t just making waves in South America, but are attracting some serious global attention.

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First Impressions Matter: Why Great Visual Design Is Essential

ConversionXL

In the first study, participants twice rated the visual appeal of web homepages presented for 500 ms each. Key takeaway: Make your web design simple and familiar. seconds for eyes to settle on key areas of a web page. Researchers monitored students’ eye movements as they scanned web pages. Follow conventions.

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Ukraine, Estonia, Chile, Finland: The saga of four accelerators

The Next Web

Keeping in mind these… This story continues at The Next Web. Some of the programs take equity in exchange for a seed round, some are free for participants, others work anywhere in between those two models.

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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – November 2012

Gust

This trend is mostly led by a decrease in product ready internet web service companies in the US, Canada, Spain and the United Kingdom, and with an increase in concept stage companies in Spain, India, Brazil and the United States. Portugal and Chile both came up four spots, rising to 13th and 14th on the list.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Many entrepreneurs cannot get to Silicon Valley because of Visa or immigration issues and many startups who don’t get onto prestigious programs like Ycombinator or Techstars are choosing Startup Chile as an alternative. ’ And Startup Chile also brings hope to entrepreneurs who can’t get to Silicon Valley.