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Finding your brand identity in 4 steps

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

That being said, we have seen many examples of large companies that get disrupted by smaller, scrappier startups.”. Understand your audience and educate your community. While 2018 YLAI Fellow Janeel Boon spends his time running his business Boon’s Computer Repairs , he is also well-known in his home country of St.

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“Putting adVenture back into Venture Capital!”- Jeshua Soh’s Unique Approach to Investing

AsiaTechDaily

Register Hailing from Singapore, Jeshua Soh is a young and dynamic angel investor who has woven a narrative that curves through unconventional education, accidental entrepreneurship, and a globetrotting escapade to over 55 countries across five continents.

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Add to that, the dozens of courses I’ve attended and home education programs I’ve listened to. Promoting Disruption. The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption. For 2018 we are planning for 300-plus attendees. Obviously, EO had an impact on me as well,” he says.

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South Korean edtech startup CLASSUM scores $11m in funding

AsiaTechDaily

The startup, founded in 2018, said it will use the fresh capital to attract more top tier talent and scale its presence across more key geographies. The funding round was anchored by Dunamu & Partners and participated by Silicon Valley-based Big Basin Capital and South Korean investor Pearl Abyss Capital.

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Babbel brings its B2B language learning service to the US

TechCrunch

” CEO of Babbel US Julie Hansen speaks on stage during TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2018 at Treptow Arena on November 30, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Like other educational apps, Babbel got some tailwinds during the early pandemic, as people decided that they might as well learn a new language while stuck at home.

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UBITS snags $25M to create ‘the Netflix for corporate training’ in LatAm

TechCrunch

Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.” UBITS, a B2B online learning platform for upskilling employees in Latin America, has raised $25 million in funding led by Riverwood Capital.

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With investors like Lightspeed and The Chainsmokers, Mexican neobroker Flink raises $57M to boost financial inclusion in LatAm

TechCrunch

Neobrokers are defined as startups that are disrupting the investment industry by providing a platform for a wider range of consumers to partake in the stock market by offering them more incremental investment options and modern and easy mobile-based interfaces to manage their money.