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[ADV] Neil Billock On Rebuilding Puerto Rico: A Viable Market For SMBs To Penetrate

YoungUpstarts

Puerto Rico is a US colony but the lack of competition makes it a viable country for mainland-based entrepreneurs to penetrate. The World Bank has once placed Puerto Rico as one of the most competitive markets in Latin America with high economic growth. Puerto Rico is a key US economic and military asset.

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3 Ways To Build Philanthropy Into Your Culture

YoungUpstarts

One of the biggest obstacles to giving back to the community, especially for entrepreneurs, is finding the time to get started. But wanting to do something and actually going through with it are two very different things, and nearly every entrepreneur sorely lacks the spare time. Chances are the people who work with you have, too.

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Turning the Unemployed Into Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Department of Labor just announced that $35 million in funds were available to “develop, enhance and promote SEA programs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands,” five states - Delaware, Maine, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon - already have active SEA programs.

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Applying Lean Startup Beyond Silicon Valley

Startup Lessons Learned

Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. Kevin Dewalt—a speaker at this year''s Lean Startup Conference —is an entrepreneur, investor and adviser who has served as an investor for a strategic U.S.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store. To be honest, I would have gladly done so.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store. To be honest, I would have gladly done so.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Until then investors and entrepreneurs acted like startups were simply smaller versions of large companies.

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