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4 Ways Sales Can Help Your Company Offset Losses From Trump’s Trade Wars

YoungUpstarts

Mexico, and Canada. tech industry , companies using steel , and manufacturers of engineered hardwood floors are already feeling the pain. If one of your suppliers is in China, Mexico, or Canada, the price of doing business with them may have significantly affected your customer offering. It remains to be seen which U.S.

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Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth Says Video Games Were What Hooked Him On Tech

Hunter Walker

As a longtime Facebook engineering leader and now Meta’s new CTO, Andrew Bosworth has been at the center of many decisions Facebook/Meta made in the last decade, so I decided to ask him Five Questions. From there I could see how all the games I liked (Sim City in particular) were really engineering problems at different levels of scale.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

m-Via does financial remittances using mobile phones for people from the US to Mexico. But Bill actually went himself to remote parts of Mexico to understand the “cash out&# component of remittance. We were building to-do lists for large-scale engineering and construction projects to support our document management and workflow.

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The Energy Revolution is (Finally) Here

Version One Ventures

cents / kwh in New Mexico ). . 3) Innovation in Financial Engineering . Fortunately, we’ve seen a tremendous amount of innovation around financial engineering and deployment models. We used a very similar model at my last startup, Bright , which is now the leading residential solar company in Mexico.

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Miami: A hot spot for venture capitalists

David Teten

You might assume the event took place in Sao Paolo or Mexico City, but no, it was in Miami, and will be again in 2014. The LAB is just one example of Miami’s shared co-working spaces that are cropping up all over the city in an effort to retain local talent instead of having entrepreneurs and engineers relocate elsewhere.

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Women 2.0 Partners Google, Extends Founder Friday Events

YoungUpstarts

” “The engine for job creation and technology leadership begins and ends with investment in the entrepreneurial community,” adds Shaherose Charania, CEO and co-founder, Women 2.0. “Female founders are a driving force for the creation and usage of technologies that generate jobs. To date, Women 2.0

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To Infinity and Beyond: How Entrepreneurism is Making Space Tourism Viable

YoungUpstarts

In 1994 the American Society of Civil Engineers convened with business people in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to discuss the technical and financial feasibility of space tourism, then still a hypothetical concept.