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12 Questions: Meet Rommel Rojas (Venezuela)

crowdSPRING Blog

Rommel lives and works in Valencia, Venezuela. My name is Rommel Rojas, I live in Valencia, Venezuela. The internet explosion becomes the definite integration of art and technology for me and I was very interested in every aspect of web design and programing. The crowdSPRING model is a global model. Idiosyncrasy.

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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

12:50): How have you adapted TransPerfect to meet changing global trends? But I ended up getting a job shortly after my internship in Venezuela, which was shortly after graduating from college. I mean huge global companies, but they needed other things. (10:20): How do you balance or weigh the importance of taking risks? (11:26):

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Announcing our investment in Celo — a monetary system to create conditions of prosperity for all

Version One Ventures

It’s an open and open-sourced crypto-powered global payment platform that enables financial applications to be built on top of it. Celo’s strong global team knows how to make complicated technology easy to use. Co-founder Sep Kamvar developed the first efficient algorithm for adding personal context to the internet search process.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. I originally came from Argentina, and lived in Brazil and Venezuela before moving to the US.

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Americans are Better Off Without TikTok But Banning It is Bad Policy

This is going to be BIG.

Historically, we’ve taken the position that participation in the global economy is better for the spread of human rights. We already have a fairly fractured internet and I don’t want to see it get worse—with each country’s citizens only seeing what their government wants them to see. Venezuela much?

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