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30 Entrepreneurs Share The Movies That Motivates Them

Hearpreneur

For many entrepreneurs, movies have played a significant role in their journey to success by providing them with the motivation, inspiration, and insights they need to overcome challenges and achieve their goals. We asked successful entrepreneurs which movies motivate them, and these are their responses. #3-

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In the heart of the Panamanian jungle, a startup village grows

The Next Web

At the end of 2013, more than 100 entrepreneurs, artists, environmentalists, and yogis flew into Panama City’s chaotic metropolis, seeking an adventure, and a fun way to celebrate the New Year. After four days in the jungle, the group traveled back to Panama City to ring in the New Year.

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Uncharted Waters: How To Draw Entrepreneurial Inspiration From Captain Cook

YoungUpstarts

As an entrepreneur, your odds of keeping an “open for business” sign aloft are not stellar. You and I know that neither passage existed at the time — the Panama Canal was built long after Cook’s time — but this exercise in futility doesn’t take away from his greatness. What entrepreneur wouldn’t love to be in that position?

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Meet Team Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz

Slowly over the years I have built a team that’s dedicated to fellow entrepreneurs and business owners. I love them all, but I will say my trip to Panama as it was my first solo trip and it made me re envision my life and myself, I suppose. . Once upon a time it was just me in my basement. Dream adventure: Oh gosh.

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Leveraging your social networks for crowdfunding success [Guest post by RocketHub]

VC Cafe

What I find most exciting about a platform such as RocketHub is the variety of projects, from a one-man-band in New York to social entrepreneurs in Panama. At RocketHub, one of the world’s largest crowdfunding platforms, I have seen hundreds of projects raise funds and awareness via this new form of micro-patronage.

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

I basically made the conclusion that my natural talent set says I should be an expert at something, and I should be an entrepreneur. I decided to use the opportunity and bought a one-way ticket to Panama – I wanted to learn Spanish. Becoming an entrepreneur. The real estate and tourism in Panama were booming.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

I recruited a top-flight engineer and serial entrepreneur to build our MVP, on equity?—?and There was also that gutsy couple of years I decided to sail to Panama.) The fact that we were able to hold both our focus and the bigger picture on these sets of problems is also worth noting as a huge accomplishment.