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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica. Entrepreneurs from Latin and Central America were given first priority to pitch their businesses at today's roundtable co-hosted by Innova Tiquicia and Startup Weekend Costa Rica. Words To Live By. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

ReadWriteStart

Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. Douglas has identified about 50 software companies in Costa Rica that may be willing to develop apps on top of the GeoInvenio platform. GeoInvenio. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

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How To Start A Medical Tourism Business

YoungUpstarts

Costa Rica: Cosmetic surgery. This includes options like Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or lead generation services. For example, certain countries have achieved practice specialties, including: India: Heart/orthopedic (bone/muscle) surgery. Hungary/Philippines: Advanced dentistry. Turkey: Eye surgery. Spain: Brain surgery.

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The Fastest Growing FinTech Apps in 2019

The Startup Magazine

They offer world-class engineering and ease of access wherever you are. You can now handle your finances from the comfort of your own home or office, or even from a hammock on the beach in Costa Rica. ShinePay is here to make payments easier than ever. It can be used to solve a wide range of financial problems.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

I remember last year settling into the booth of a café deep in the rainforest in Costa Rica and looking up to see a placard on the table begging for a positive TripAdvisor review. I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college.

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12 Questions: Meet Pamela Harvey (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

When the buyer set up his/her website with the new logo created on cS, the search engines kept taking people to that design in my portfolio. We lived in Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, and Colombia. However I did not win the project, in spite of good ratings by the buyer and a few others.