The Next Web

MAY 23, 2015

Its history, however, has been a bumpy ride, which ended for its co-founder Oleg Gutsol last year, with him being ousted from the CEO role and the company itself. Shortly after the news hit the media, Gutsol left Canada where he’s lived since 2000 after moving from Ukraine, and he spent a few months in the Dominican Republic.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For the next entry in The Startup Magazine’s founder interview series , we are featuring Alejandro Russo, founder of Candela Mamajuana. Candela Mamajuana is an alcohol/spirits startup brand that is bringing the Dominican Republic’s native rum to the world. Candela is not Alejandro’s first startup.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

But in addition to this, the platform – or “the skinny,” as its founders so deftly describe it – is the chance to sign up and volunteer your professional (or personal!) know-how to non-profits and small businesses that need it, but don’t exactly have a huge cashflow. You can’t talk back to your baked goods – or can you?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

No new business is worth starting in these times unless it can go global.” – Sir Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group. Its executives sit in San Francisco, its CTO is based in the Dominican Republic, and its development team is in Belgrade. They might look more like Vast.com, a big data solutions provider for homebuyers.

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