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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

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We want to give people an opportunity to really develop, innovate, and preserve their own culture." -- Tom Aageson, co-founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship A week, or so ago I interviewed my Dad, Tom Aageson, for a special Father's Day show on the Big Vision Podcast. They'd bring them into the market, and sell them.

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Ecuadorian payments infrastructure startup Kushki lands $100M at a $1.5B valuation

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Since then, we have just gotten more ambitious and continued to grow so we needed more money to fuel more growth,” Schwarzkopf said in an interview with TechCrunch. Specifically, it enables LatAm businesses to a ccept payments globally and receive money in their local currency. Europe, APAC and Brazil.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. You can listen to my interview with Jensine on the Big Vision Podcast website, or on iTunes. I've posted an edited transcript below. Yes, and they're very synergistic.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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I imagined women or girls who received cards might keep them in a place in her home, in a drawer, or on a shelf that would always remind her that she is cared for, and that she is a part of a much larger global community. We are also planning a trip to Peru! What is the path that brought you to this work? We have come a long way!

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Innovamat tallies up $21M to reinvent math education

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It has been around since 2017, operating initially in Spain before expanding to Italy and several countries in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil and Peru). In short, globally, most countries are struggling to teach most of their young people basic math skills (a situation laid bare in ongoing OECD research ).

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? Last month I interviewed Cristi Hegranes, its Founder and President. CH: Right, exactly.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

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Their story was one of the ones that stood out the most for me from the series, so I was thrilled when a woman named Houria Iderkou, who set up a Causes campaign for KickStart on Facebook, contacted me to see if I'd like to interview Fisher. Martin Fisher: The problem we're trying to solve is global poverty. You're not going to Peru."