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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web.

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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

Growthink Blog

Canada, England, South Korea, Japan, and Uruguay. Well, let’s leave for now the huge economic fallacy of this thinking and concentrate on the fact that the narrowing of the relative wealth differential between the U.S. So from 95%+ U.S. based business in 2008 to where now a global clientele represents more than 30% of our business.