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Transformify Partners with Laboratoria to Empower Young Women and Girls in Latin America

Transformify

Only those women who are placed in jobs pay back to Laboratoria and they continue studying in Laboratoria while working, for 18 more months, further improving their technical and soft skills, and learning English, in order to have access to the global market. In 2 years we have trained more than 400 students in Peru, Chile, and México.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Many international entrepreneurs are looking at what is working in the USA and cloning them in various countries, our venue partner in Rio De Janeiro, Peixe Urbano (which means “Urban Fish” in Portuguese) is based upon the Groupon model. Startups are aiming for a global, not local market. Many startups are Silicon Valley clones.

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An Entrepreneur – Not Just a Man (and Woman) with a Plan

Growthink Blog

Take Peru, where over the past 25 years more than 1.5 Other examples of “philanthropic” entrepreneurs include Gary McDougal – a former Partner at McKinsey - who later in his life re-engineered the broken Illinois welfare system and made it a model nation-wide. Global Entrepreneurs. And I say more power to them. read more.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

I'm really fortunate that I'd found a wonderful development outsource partner in them. Thanks Swamykant www.yourdigitalspace.com Diego Ferreyra I personally work for a US based company from home, and I live in Peru. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September. Nice Article.

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Who Is and Who ISN’T an Entrepreneur

Growthink Blog

Marco talked about the experience of Peru, a country where over 1.5 Other examples of “philanthropic” entrepreneurs include Gary McDougal - former Partner at McKinsey - who later in his life re-engineered the broken Illinois welfare system and made it a model nation-wide. Global Entrepreneurs.

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Astranis to Bring High-Speed Internet to the Remotest Corners of the Earth

ReadWriteStart

To address this issue, space-based internet startup Astranis has partnered with satellite services provider Orbits Corp to launch and operate a dedicated satellite for the Philippines. Astranis differentiates itself from other satellite internet providers by partnering with local telecommunications and internet service providers.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

ISRAEL CORP UNIT TO BUILD $680 MLN PERU POWER STATION. Israel Corporation unit Cerro del Aguila SA has agreed to build a 510-megawatt hydroelectric power station in Peru at an investment of $680 million. Fifty of its manufacturing activities and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations.

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