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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. Not my problem.

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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

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They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. This is only true when: 1) there is funding available to finance short-term losses and 2) when there is a lucrative positive unit-economics business when you become the winner. They’re acceptable.

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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. Large companies are just plain organized – with rules, HR, finance and more importantly, are built around process and procedures for execution.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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He grew up in Colombia, South America. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

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Yesterday MiTú Networks announced that Upfront Ventures led a $10 million financing in what is now the largest producer of Latino online videos – primarily driven through YouTube. originally raised $3 million in financing from some of the smartest people in the industry including Peter Chernin, Allen DeBevoise and Shari Redstone.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. Israel is the first country outside South America to implement a free trade agreement with the bloc. ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012.

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How to Plan Your Social Integration Strategy

mashable.com

Additionally, if your site has a user base in other markets like Europe, South America or Asia, you may also want to offer login through various international social networks like Vkontakte , Orkut , RenRen or Mixi to ensure your site appeals to global users. Money and Finance Lists. You won’t know until you test. Holiday Lists.