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Foreign investors have a bigger role to play in growing Latin America’s startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

There has been significant hype around Latin America’s startup success. There is a huge opportunity to do what local investors did in Brazil and Mexico years ago, and play a significant role in the next chapter of countries with blossoming markets like Colombia, Peru or Uruguay. For good reason, too: Startups have raised $9.3

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways. Every day I see their faces in my feed.

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Disrupt kicks off tomorrow — check out the highlights

TechCrunch

They’ll unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines and will wade through the hype to keep you up-to-date on the world of business, tech and VC. Contact our sponsorship sales team by filling out this form. Latecomers are always welcome. Buy your pass right now, and we’ll see you at the Moscone Center!

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The Best Virtual Event Use Cases

AccelEvents

Maybe you’ve heard about the hype and are eager to see how an event can drive your brand awareness. In June, the San Francisco chapter allowed attendees to come together for a few hours of merriment, which included casual discussions, breakouts, and their choice of mocktail or cocktail. Virtual Lunch and Learns.

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The Best Virtual Event Use Cases

AccelEvents

Maybe you’ve heard about the hype and are eager to see how an event can drive your brand awareness. In June, the San Francisco chapter allowed attendees to come together for a few hours of merriment, which included casual discussions, breakouts, and their choice of mocktail or cocktail. Virtual Lunch and Learns.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, is the.

ASU Lodestar Center

The claim of increased commerciality starts feeling rather official when Tuckman and Chang proclaim it in Chapter 27 of the well-regarded Research Handbook and Anheier alerts students to significantly growing marketization and reliance on fee income on page 211 of his textbook. Those, friends, are big names.

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Six Books that Have Shaped My Data Career

Towards Data Science

I think that the entire book is worth reading, but when you read those later chapters is going to depend on specific data modeling problems you encounter. To that end, I finally picked up this book after countless recommendations and endless praise, and all I can say is that it lives up to the hype.

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