YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2013

Mitsubishi Motors named their sport utility vehicle Pajero, first introduced in 1982, after a feline cat native to Spanish-speaking Argentina… except that ‘pajero’ is also an offensive term that means ‘wanker’ While that didn’t seem to have affected sales all too much and the Pajero was marketed using different names (..)

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Global Argentina Startup China 212

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

McAfee entered into an OEM relationship with Sentrigo in 2010 to offer Sentrigo database security products under the McAfee brand name. Israel signed a co-production agreement with Brazil last year and is in talks for the same with Argentina and Spain, which, when signed will greatly facilitate cooperation with the Israeli film industry.

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Israel Java Database Argentina 80

Up and Running

APRIL 10, 2017

After that, we spent the next three months traveling all over Chile and Argentina without incident. At one point we got off a bus in Bariloche, Argentina, and started seeking out a hostel that a few other travelers had mentioned. At the end of the hall was a sign with the name of the hostel and an arrow pointing to the last door.

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Chile Argentina Startup Chicago 110

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

MiTú, based out of Los Angeles, was founded in 2012 by three veterans from the Hispanic media world: Beatriz Acevedo ( recently named on the 25 most important digital media players on The Hollywood Reporter !) , Doug Greiff and Roy Burstin. And of course they are also focused on the US Hispanic market.

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South America Colombia Mexico Vertical 291

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.” I built my first startup in Argentina during the economic crisis-turned-revolution in 2001,” writes Frederic Kerrest , “and my co-founder and I started Okta in the depths of the U.S.

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Diego Basch

MAY 30, 2013

When I was a teenager in Argentina in the 1980s, there was a weekly TV show called “ Feliz Domingo ” (Happy Sunday). You’d get a random trivia category such as Greek Philosophers, and you’d have to name as many as possible in ten seconds, no duplicates. It ran live for nine hours, between one and ten pm.

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Argentina Startup Hosting Naming 72

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2018

While in Buenos Aires, Argentina I joined a DeRose Method school and I soon realized how incredibly effective it had been in helping me reach my goals. How did you come up with your business name? The universe isn’t for or against you; it simply doesn’t care.

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Product Argentina Employee Entrepreneur 54

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

" That quote comes to mind when I think of a new feature in Google Analytics that carries the unassuming name of Weighted Sort. Hundreds and hundreds of referring urls and campaigns and page names and so on and so forth. But how did Argentina rank #1 (4k visits), Peru #2 (1.5k The problem? That is a good question.

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Analytics Web Peru Argentina 109

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better. I originally came from Argentina, and lived in Brazil and Venezuela before moving to the US.

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Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

Diego Basch

JUNE 2, 2012

My name is Diego, so my odds of being interested in a Spanish-language portal were relatively high. Being born and raised in Argentina, I have no interest in short-term investments. Not that I’m famous or anything now, but back then I was nobody. Why did they call me? I’d rather be playing poker.

IPO 62

IPO Argentina Stock .Net 62

VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2010

Albaugh, which was founded in 1979, has six plants in the US, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina, and a joint venture in China, and its South American sales in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile complement Makhteshim’s business in Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador. 8 ISRAELI START-UPS NAMED RED HERRING 100 WINNERS. percent in 2011.

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Israel North America Brazil Argentina 68

Diego Basch

MARCH 1, 2012

I’m promoting it through social networks, and my name is prominently associated with it. A colorful anecdote from my youth in Argentina. This blog post is as public as it gets. Some people fail to realize that privacy is not black and white. Of course, the site knows our IP address. Do we access the site via mobile? Game over.

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San Francisco Argentina IP Social Network 35

The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Since we had no money to afford a professional translation service, I took advantage of the fact that Israel is very much a country of immigrants and asked for help from my relatives from Brazil and Argentina to do our Portuguese and Spanish localizations (thank you Luciana and Jaco!). These, too, were highly effective. What a splurge!

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Brazil Technical Review PR Development Team Review 158

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2019

John Jantsch: Yeah, so my Twitter name is duct tape. And next time I’m in Argentina, hopefully we can grab a cup of coffee. My business is called Duct Tape marketing and all my other social media handles are Duct Tape Marketing. But at the time Twitter launched you couldn’t have a handle that long. And so my-.

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Social Media Media Framework Advertising 43

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The study ranks 110 countries across 26 image attributes and seven measures of brand strength, but the most important factors, the aspects that truly differentiate a nation brand, are its associations and attributes – the things that people think of when they hear a place name, or look at a photograph or plan a trip.

Israel 158

Israel Iceland Chile Argentina 158

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The study ranks 110 countries across 26 image attributes and seven measures of brand strength, but the most important factors, the aspects that truly differentiate a nation brand, are its associations and attributes – the things that people think of when they hear a place name, or look at a photograph or plan a trip.

Israel 141

Israel Iceland Chile Argentina 141

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The study ranks 110 countries across 26 image attributes and seven measures of brand strength, but the most important factors, the aspects that truly differentiate a nation brand, are its associations and attributes – the things that people think of when they hear a place name, or look at a photograph or plan a trip.

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Israel Iceland Chile Argentina 141

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2012

Bring up social entrepreneurs and one of the first names you’re likely to encounter is that of Muhammad Yunus. Mycoskie founded TOMS in 2006 after a visit to Argentina where he learned that many children get sick or injured because they do not have shoes to wear. Muhammad Yunus.

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Egypt Entrepreneur Senegal Africa 250

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

I use to name everything around me since I was a little girl, I named all my pencils and brushes during my school years, I named my first car (the dragon) my first computer (Jane) and kept doing it so now I drive the Bug, work on Ruby Rodh my great laptop, and check. my mails from Blanchi my cute android tablet. in Sweden.

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Mexico Argentina Ruby Canada 80

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Brian Armstrong : My name is Brian Armstrong. It's kind of like whoever discovered penicillin, you don't need to know their name. I'd also spent a year living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. And so I'd gotten a sense of what that could do to a population and it certainly wasn't unique to Argentina. ER : So I want to go back.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

When I went to add partners at Upfront I called an LP of mine and told him I was trying to recruit a new partner named Kara Nortman. Liberia, Argentina, Bangladesh, Lithuania, Trinidad, Brazil, Kosovo, Slovenia, Denmark, Jamaica, South Korea, Norway, Poland & Croatia. I couldn’t have married somebody I didn’t feel was my equal.

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