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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.

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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.

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Altimeter Report: Social Commerce, How Brands Are Generating Revenue in Social Media - [link]. Google Maps triggers military dispute between Costa Rica & Nicaragua – [link]. Amazon Allows Kindle Magazine And Newspaper Publishers To Take 70 Percent Of Revenue [link]. Does Branding Still Matter? – [link].

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Therefore I started my businesses, all in real estate, to become revenue generating machines to fund the needed research. I have the unique opportunity to design my life the way I want to, travel the world, and live here in Costa Rica. I thought briefly about working for a foundation, but it was way outside my skill sets.

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Why he is there and I am here

The Startup Toolkit

A few weeks ago, In Costa Rica, I talked to a guy whose company did 7 million revenue its first year. Now, a couple years on, he and his cofounders are taking a 5 million dividend apiece and it’s growing fast. I wanted to know why he can pull that off and I can’t. He’s 42; I’m 29.

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How to Build a Boss Brand [Part I]

Up and Running

Focus on what you get done day by day that drives revenue. We also do this type of work in our retreats—we had two recent retreats to Cuba and Costa Rica, and one upcoming to Brazil! I often see people (including myself sometimes) being overtaken by complexity. Pick a name. This is an easy place to get stuck.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. Think about that.