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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 80 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 120,000 members worldwide. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. Why will people from South America stream to Chile, besides its magnificent geography? Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment. Perhaps because the cost of a public failure is so high in Chile. See below.).

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Load Impact’s The State Of Web Readiness 2012

YoungUpstarts

” When comparing different regions, North American companies invest the most in load testing, followed by South America and Europe. Asia Pacific spends the least.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

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). I know it sounds trite to say that entrepreneurs are risk takers so let me describe the normal, rational person who I meet on a regular basis. He wanted to raise angel money.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

The Europe goal was shaped by three random things: My father is from South America and his native language is Spanish (although his father was from Romania and escaped oppression there). At Andersen Consulting I had built computer networks and programmed in COBOL. I wanted to do more of the former, less of the latter.

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Why the Former President of Nickelodeon Joined mitú as CEO.

Both Sides of the Table

We = my father is from Colombia, South America, immigrated to the U.S. This isn’t your grandmother’s Univision or telenovelas. We* are now the mainstream market and we’re bringing more to your mobile phones and living rooms. (We His son then went on to raise more than $1.1 billion to finance US startups.)

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[Review] The Lean Startup

YoungUpstarts

Lee Shen Han has just returned from a half-year travel sabbatical around Europe and South America. If you have any interest in entrepreneurship at all, this book is definitely worth your time. He is interested in entrepreneurship, small business and the expanding tech scene in Singapore.

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