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Remittance Cash Pickup Not Possible During Lockdown? There’s Another Way.

YoungUpstarts

To control the spread of the disease governments have imposed sweeping quarantines. Ria will also continue to provide cash home delivery services in Armenia, the Dominican Republic, Hungary, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The coronavirus infection has spread to more than 175 countries and territories.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Governments supportive of technology. In Africa in particular governments are very involved in promoting technology and see it as a future industry that will kick start the economy. ’ And Startup Chile also brings hope to entrepreneurs who can’t get to Silicon Valley. Many female entrepreneurs.

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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 In some ways, those that do so in the contexts of bigger business, philanthropy, and government are even more impressive than our obvious entrepreneurs. Thank heavens for all of them - according to a famous M.I.T Into this category falls executives like Wal-Mart’s CEO Mike Duke.

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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 The "Non-Obvious" Entrepreneurs In some ways, those that demonstrate entrepreneurial leadership in the contexts of bigger business, philanthropy, and government are even more impressive than our obvious entrepreneurs.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Three years ago brothers Rodrigo Aramburu (CEO) and Felipe (CTO), from Houston were working on a consulting project for the Peruvian government involving 14 legacy systems. The team maintains a development office in Lima, Peru which brings incredible talent and energy. Our Team is Stellar BlazingDB was founded out of necessity.

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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. ISRAELI AIR FORCE TECHNOLOGY HELPS IMPROVE SPORT PERFORMANCE.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." And you don't even need the government to help you there. What did China do?