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[INTERVIEW] Glen McKay, Newfoundland Business Leader, Co-Founder of Newfoundland Hard-Rok, Inc.

YoungUpstarts

Cornerstone continues to explore its Cascabel copper-gold discovery in Ecuador as well as other properties in Ecuador and Chile. Foster a team spirit working atmosphere and remunerate key staff above market. In 1997, Glen co-founded Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc., Any qualities or lessons that you learned during that time?

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For tech to develop in emerging economies, the first obstacle is trust

The Next Web

Fast forward a few months and I’ve returned to my adopted country of Ecuador with the objective of helping to develop a thriving tech scene. Ecuador’s socialist government has prioritized the tech sector, even going so far as to create an entirely new city focused on the development of knowledge industries.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. So they began signing up Spanish-language content producers in Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and so forth.

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Glen McKay: From Newfoundland Fishing Boat Deckhand to Mining CEO

Hearpreneur

With McKay at the helm as the company’s CEO, Cornerstone Capital purchased, in 2011, the then promising but unknown and subsequently famous Cascabel gold project in Ecuador, which continues to be explored today, with recent drilling results showing a potential of a world class mineralized system at Cascabel.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Through its purchase of the Herzliya-based company, Intel will gain a stronger market presence in the market for 2G and 3G protocols and files. Though there are other drugs on the market that treat AATD, Glassia is the only liquid product. Israel’s labor market continues to recover from the recession.

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Epitaph for an Entrepreneur « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Second, it set a cultural norm at my startups, first at Supermac as the VP of Marketing, then at Rocket Science as the CEO and at E.piphany as President. When the kids got older our adventures took us to Mexico, Ecuador , India, Africa and Europe. Long vacations. Alaska , Wyoming , Colorado , Washington , Oregon, Maine.)