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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. We are a community that is always in beta, that’s how you get things done,” says Kalu Yala’s founder Jimmy Stice.

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Uncharted Waters: How To Draw Entrepreneurial Inspiration From Captain Cook

YoungUpstarts

by David Disiere , founder and CEO of QEO Insurance Group. 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. As an entrepreneur, your odds of keeping an “open for business” sign aloft are not stellar.

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Hey White Guys, You’re Invited!

Austin Startup

Even Rubén Blades was there, an expert in the bias-laden trifecta industries of music, cinema and politics (Blades ran for President of Panama in 1994). Latinitas staff with Curly from Pero Like The founder of the colonialism combatant news feed Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas, put it best: “I get called out. White guys?—?we

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30 Entrepreneurs Share The Movies That Motivates Them

Hearpreneur

10- The Founder Photo Credit: Steve Ramos This movie taught me many things I constantly like to remind myself daily. Thanks to Jackie Lange, Panama Relocation Tours ! #17- 27- Hidden Figures Photo Credit: Amy Bos As a female Founder and COO, taking ownership of my wins has always been a challenge.

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

ConversionXL

I decided to use the opportunity and bought a one-way ticket to Panama – I wanted to learn Spanish. I had received my first salary, moved into a colonial house in Panama City Casco Viejo district next to the Pacific Ocean. Their main investor was the husband of Anita Roddick (the founder of Body Shop), who passed away.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

Many people have reached out sharing knowing and kind words about our journey and choice to wind down our venture, as well as their appreciation for my choice to pull back the curtain on what is statistically a common road for many founders. It details a landscape founders like me are excited to sink their teeth into? Of course not!