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Strengthening financial education in Argentina with honesty and integrity

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

2018 YLAI Fellow Gastón is the founder of eaInversores , an online platform based in Córdoba, Argentina, that provides low-cost investment assistance and financial literacy education. His organization, eaInversores, provides financial education through online courses and conferences.

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

TechCrunch

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. It’s also making forays into non-game scenarios like online education and autonomous driving.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” It had been written that NYC was built by industries of zero sum games like finance and real estate, and that DNA wouldn’t work in the startup community.

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New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape

TechCrunch

from 2010 to 2019. According to the firm, the continent’s funding trajectory from 2015 to 2020 is akin to Southeast Asia and Latin America’s 2010 to 2015 periods. There are five main sectors in Africa’s startup landscape: financial services, commerce, transport, healthcare and education. and Latin America’s 2.8%.

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How Low Can You Go?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In the third and final article in her series on personal health and finances, Megan Hottman shares a tool that helps her stay on course for financial success. She formed her own law practice in 2010 at age 29 and joined EO in 2018. Or perhaps you financed a piece of jewelry that makes you feel confident when you wear it.

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2 CEOs are better than 1

TechCrunch

” The study’s authors also found that co-CEOs were spread across industry types and that splitting the role can “complement each other in terms of educational background or executive responsibilities.” Laureen launched the company in 2010 out of her one-bedroom apartment. Here’s why.

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SoftBank bets big on a ‘digital Ellis Island’

TechCrunch

Crosscut Ventures, Mubadala Capital, Next Play Capital and Owl Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the Los Angeles-based company’s total raised to $50 million since its 2010 inception. s SB Opportunity Fund. Its efforts are initially primarily focused on the Hispanic community in the U.S. the company says.