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Move Your Startup to Chile-con Valley, Get $40,000!

ReadWriteStart

Steve Davis packed his laptop and his Spanish phrasebook and moved to Chile. On arrival, a government program called Start-Up Chile handed him $40,000, no equity required. Davis and his partners, Amit Aharoni and Nicolas Meunier, were members of Start-Up Chile's freshman class, arriving in August 2010. What to do? Discuss.

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[Review] The $100 Startup

YoungUpstarts

One should also determine if outsourcing to virtual assistants, subcontracting and hiring employees would truly work. To multiply one’s efforts, one could use a “hub-and-spoke” model of maintaining a home base while using other outposts to diversify oneself. Partnerships such as affiliate programmes may also work.

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[INTERVIEW] Glen McKay, Newfoundland Business Leader, Co-Founder of Newfoundland Hard-Rok, Inc.

YoungUpstarts

Cornerstone continues to explore its Cascabel copper-gold discovery in Ecuador as well as other properties in Ecuador and Chile. It’s easy to hire these services and these must be incorporated into the business plan from the start. Hire people who have strengths to offset your weaknesses and empower them.

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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

Transformify Recruitment CRM and Generate FS have joined forces to help employers hire top talent worldwide. Once the right candidates are selected, the employers can benefit from the ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ or the ‘’Umbrella’’ solutions. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution. .’’

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Glen McKay: From Newfoundland Fishing Boat Deckhand to Mining CEO

Hearpreneur

At the time that I was leading the company, Cornerstone Capital Resources was looking to expand outside of Newfoundland & Labrador and we were fortunate enough to find prospective mineral properties in Ecuador and Chile. That’s true of any entrepreneur and something to think about during the hiring process.

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Career-Wise, Nothing Beats Authenticity

YoungUpstarts

by Ines Temple , president of LHH Peru and Chile, and author of “ YOU, Incorporated: Your Career is Your Business “ As a child, my mother was a stickler about table manners. It inspires trust, facilitates communication, strengthens relationships and has a positive impact on one’s reputation.

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Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I entered the Facebook market when French people started using Facebook and then I targeted the Spanish-speaking market when countries like Chile and Argentina started using Facebook six months after the French population. As a developer, you could follow the adoption rates in each country and target the last trending country.