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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. Please tell us about yourself.

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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. He was responsible for the construction of 11 thermonuclear power plants throughout Venezuela that created 12,000 jobs. He invested heavily in Internet marketing, especially on Facebook.

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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

I had the opportunity to live in a number of foreign countries, Portugal when I was little, then Canada when I was 10 until college, and then I did my junior year in Spain and I worked in Venezuela, and I was able to study four languages, so Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Latin loved languages. That is the hardest.

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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. He was responsible for the construction of 11 thermonuclear power plants throughout Venezuela that created 12,000 jobs. He invested heavily in Internet marketing, especially on Facebook.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. who derive a meaningful chunk of their revenue from operating ad networks. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA.

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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. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. 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.

From questions like, “Does TikTok access my home wifi network?” 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? We don’t necessarily want that happening to our companies overseas, do we?

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