Attendees at the Startups Without Borders event at the American University of Cairo, where entrepreneurs, investors and activists share their experiences and projects on Friday and Saturday. If the term “refugee” has negative connotations, that of entrepreneurship at all, but being both is possible thanks to a change of perspective…
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The month of October has closed with € 32.11 million invested in startups, in a total of 17 Spanish public operations, and in which two of them have not made their amounts official. A figure that places the accumulated investment in technology in the year 2019 at € 733.65M, a…
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There are more than 30 countries around Latin America, and the population now exceeds 600 million, and continues to grow. This diverse region is also the second fastest growing mobile market in the world, behind sub-Saharan Africa. With more than 200 million smartphone users, new technology companies in Latin America…
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Despite the recent protests and the unfortunate political and economic crisis that some of our sister countries in Latin America are going through, it is important to highlight the positive part of their development in the last 20 years, their different models and the aspects that have favored its economic…
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Blockchain to improve the income of coffee growers, an “aribnb” to hire live music and artificial intelligence to measure emotions were three of the entrepreneurial bets that had a space in Los Angeles, California. This week, between October 22 and 24, the global meeting of the mobile industry was held:…
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In May 2013, David Hodge attended Apple headquarters in Infinite Loop. He was not an employee of the company or a supplier. Nor was he visiting. Hodge was the co-founder and CEO of Embark, a startup that provided apps for different cities in the US where you could check the…
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Latin America has become a vibrant region in technological development, which shakes the hornet of private investment. And in that line, Brazil and Colombia have stolen attractiveness to Mexico and have achieved greater capital injection for their ventures. More and more… More and more investors of entrepreneurial capital are interested…
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Find interesting and promising startups in any market. Automatically and within seconds. The Leadspicker project of friends and graduates of the Brno University of Technology Vlastimil Vodička [on the introductory photo on the left] and Jan Skácel uses a machine-based algorithm to detect even beginning local startups. Both large international…
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I love investing in Software as a Service (SaaS) shares. Even bigger is my preference for small or medium-sized businesses, most of which have never heard of. AppFolio (WKN: A14TU7), the cloud software company for small and medium-sized property managers and law firms, meets both criteria. Here are five reasons…
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In the burgeoning startups scene in Mexico, the last thing some entrepreneurs want is advertising. Unlike Silicon Valley firms, which seek to make public relations, the founders of these national emerging firms often reject interviews with the media, avoid public announcements and hide details of their success. In which position…
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