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Pandere Shoes, Anchorage Startups, and Techstars

Feld Thoughts

I met the co-founder Laura Oden when I was in Anchorage last month to speak at the Accelerate Alaska event. She described how she met her founders at Techstars Startup Weekend in 2016. The founders loved where they lived and put together a support team of shoe experts and designers in Boston, France, and Portugal.

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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

The eight teams hail from all over the world – including entrants from Montreal, Toronto, Portugal and Bulgaria – and have spent the last three months tirelessly working away on their hardware-based startup ideas for the Internet of Things in preparation for today.

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Coping With Late Payment – Managing Asia’s Slow Payers

YoungUpstarts

On a macro level it has led some countries, like Italy, Spain and Portugal, into a vicious cycle, with billions of dollars tied up in overdue invoices. This is a last resort, and not advisable as it will brand your firm a poor paymaster and cause irreparable damage to supplier relations. Atradius, Payment Practices in Asia-Pacific, 2013.

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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liz Elting In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liz Elting, the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. billion in revenue and offices in over 100 cities around the globe.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Betmarkets

Austin Startup

One of the 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , the Porto, Portugal-based startup is nearing its full launch date, and already has had more than 12,000 beta users sign up to choose from a selection of renowned professional bettors to copy. Tell us your favorite thing about being in Porto, Portugal. Looking lost?

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SXSW Pitch Finalists: Betmarkets

Austin Startup

One of the 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , the Porto, Portugal-based startup is nearing its full launch date, and already has had more than 3,500 beta users sign up to choose from a selection of renowned professional bettors to copy. Tell us your favorite thing about being in Porto, Portugal. Looking lost?

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5 Famous Introverted Leaders And What You Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

Rowling lost her mother, moved to Portugal, and began (and ended) a marriage that left her with a daughter to raise on her own. Apple Co-founder and introvert Steve Wozniak, like Rowling, understands the value of working alone. All of this lead to a rather understandable state of depression. Steve Wozniak. Put it on your calendar.