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In the heart of the Panamanian jungle, a startup village grows

The Next Web

At the end of 2013, more than 100 entrepreneurs, artists, environmentalists, and yogis flew into Panama City’s chaotic metropolis, seeking an adventure, and a fun way to celebrate the New Year. After four days in the jungle, the group traveled back to Panama City to ring in the New Year.

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Leveraging your social networks for crowdfunding success [Guest post by RocketHub]

VC Cafe

What I find most exciting about a platform such as RocketHub is the variety of projects, from a one-man-band in New York to social entrepreneurs in Panama. At RocketHub, one of the world’s largest crowdfunding platforms, I have seen hundreds of projects raise funds and awareness via this new form of micro-patronage.

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

The only possible solution: the income had to come from the internet. In the process of seeking my goal in life I discovered that there’s not a single good resource on the internet on finding life purpose. Through connections I made on LinkedIn, I was able to land a job for a British internet television company.

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What a Microsoft Yahoo deal would mean for startups (continued)

BeyondVC

As we all know when it comes to the Internet and advertising, scale matters. One, when Microsoft finally integrates its 3 or more advertising platforms with Aquantive, adcenter, and Panama, they may just be able to offer startups a decent or even better alternative to using Google Adsense to monetize their inventory.

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12 Questions: Meet Pamela Harvey (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

I have also out of necessity adapted to the influence of the Internet, where horizontal logo alignment seems to rule. Now, lately, it has become entirely possible for me to twist my look, like a pretzel, into a webby Internet style. I joked that the Internet gods were saying they should have picked my design!