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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

We wanted to share some other trends we observed; Countries have startups that play to their strengths. Brazilians like to fiesta and have a huge bar and restaurant industry, startups like our Rio finalist We Go Out are helping people to find the best parties and events to go to tonight by showing you where your friends are checking in.

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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

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. I wrote a few articles around the coronavirus that got viewed by over 60 million people, and that pushed me from really not a person very well known in the coronavirus world to appearing on the news and in different newspapers. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that.

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Rethinking Impact Investing

thebarefootvc

A budding poet at the age of 10, I had filled my diary with poems of gold palaces, handsome princes and beautiful silks on the long plan ride from New York to Bombay…only to be greeted at 2 AM by a chaotic scene of humanity (and stray animals) in the humid air – the airport was not even enclosed.

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Rethinking Impact Investing

thebarefootvc

A budding poet at the age of 10, I had filled my diary with poems of gold palaces, handsome princes and beautiful silks on the long plan ride from New York to Bombay…only to be greeted at 2 AM by a chaotic scene of humanity (and stray animals) in the humid air – the airport was not even enclosed.