The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Candela Mamajuana is an alcohol/spirits startup brand that is bringing the Dominican Republic’s native rum to the world. Candela Mamajuana was born after Alejandro became fascinated by mamajuana (a spiced rum native to the Dominican Republic) after it was served to him at a hotel bar in the Dominican Republic.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

These two deals are significant, and suggest that Facebook didn’t just buy an app - Snaptu is a mobile platform and a distribution channel for emerging markets with low smartphone penetration, where the users use their mobile phones as their main access device to the Internet.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

One in five prime working age American men has not worked in the last twelve months, and our labor force participation rate is down to 62.9%, the same levels as El Salvador the Dominican Republic. Any of those changes would require a wholesale revolution in the way we distribute and measure value and work.

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