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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

Want to spend a year or more in Argentina? My first corporate job was at First Interstate Bank where I worked in Corporate Finance. Tim Ferriss’ assertion is that you should try to pursue an entrepreneurial job where you can take control of your life and your hours. Andrew Warner from Mixergy is doing it.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

ISRAEL TO TRADE FREELY WITH MERCOSUR; ARGENTINA – ISRAEL SIGN FTA. Argentina became the last of the South American Mercosur trade block of four to sign a free trade agreement with Israel. Trade with Argentina, on the other hand, only reached $130 million due to high tariffs on Israeli goods there.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Well, there are multiple nuances to the answer.

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How Innovation Can Help Frontier Markets

YoungUpstarts

The frontier market is a term coined by the International Finance Corporation’s Frida Khambata in 1992. Some countries known as frontier markets are Argentina, Lebanon, Vietnam, Nigeria, Oman, Bahrain, and Bangladesh. This means that these are countries with a lot of potentials but are also too risky for investors to give attention to.

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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. Six months before starting our business, my wife and I moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina with no solid plans, no place to live, and no jobs. In the summer of 2009, my wife and I caught the entrepreneurial bug and started a company without any prior business experience.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. It is, however, too early for financing. In addition, we had attendees from many other parts of the world.

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The four waves of crypto disruption: where are they today? 

Version One Ventures

But you only have to talk to people from high inflation countries like Argentina or Venezuela to understand the appeal of a globally-accessible and permissionless digital currency. This wave probably experienced the most progress over the past two years with the rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) built on top of Ethereum.