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

ConversionXL

I decided to use the opportunity and bought a one-way ticket to Panama – I wanted to learn Spanish. I had received my first salary, moved into a colonial house in Panama City Casco Viejo district next to the Pacific Ocean. The rent was due. The real estate and tourism in Panama were booming. Losing the job.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

New business are hard: 50% succeed in the first 5 years Startups are hard: 10% succeed?—?only only 1% ever receive outside capital (and not all businesses are built for outside capital) Marketplaces are hard Raising money for a women-led startups is hard: only 2% of all venture funding is invested in (white) female founders (.02%