Latin America Startups: How Three Sourcing Entrepreneurs Crossed the Chasm

A guest post by Tarun George and Kirk Laughlin Ever since our Red Hot Startups contest last year, Nearshore Americas has kept a close eye on the gradual increase of tech innovation coming out of Latin America. Unlike Silicon Valley – where angel investors, tech talent and other vital ingredients to nurture startups are abundantly

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Four Steps To Building Real Entrepreneurship In Latin America: A Sobering Assessment From Vivek Wadhwa

By guest author Kirk Laughlin of Nearshore Americas Vivek Wadhwa, currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, gives Latin America poor grades. The problem with Latin America’s startup culture is it is afraid of risk, says Wadhwa, one of the nation’s experts on tech entrepreneurship and someone who has nearly perfected the art of business-appropriate bluntness.

Brian Hamilton

Brian Hamilton is the co-founder and CEO of Sageworks, a financial information company, and Inc. 500 honoree.  Hamilton is an original co-developer of “FIND” (Financial Information into Narrative Data), Sageworks’ core artificial intelligence technology, which converts financial numbers into plain language.  FIND is the basis of the ProfitCents and Sageworks Analyst applications that are used

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Outsourcing: Amit Shankardass And Andrew Kokes Of Sitel (Part 6)

By guest author Tony Scott Tony: [What you just said about offering speciality skills] goes back also to another point, labor rates. Seven or eight years ago, when outsourcing was really just trying to take off in a big way for call center outsourcing, the labor rates, if you focus on India or parts of the

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Outsourcing: Amit Shankardass And Andrew Kokes Of Sitel (Part 5)

By guest author Tony Scott Tony: There obviously has to be a match between the skill sets of the people, [not just a match] with the cost. Clearly, the people who provide technical support for inbound calls have to have specialized skills. Amit: Absolutely, and this comes in in the way we go to market. You

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Gary Cohen

As president and co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc., Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is managing partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book is Just Ask Leadership – Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

New Year’s Resolutions For Your Brand: 10 Things To Try In 2011

By guest author Shawn Parr [Shawn Parr, CEO of a design and innovation consultancy, offers ideas for companies of all stripes to assess and strengthen their brands for 2011.] 1. BE COURAGEOUS, OFTEN Take bold steps to stand out from the crowd. Reflect on 2010 and look at what you did well and what you

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Shawn Parr

Shawn Parr is the CEO of Bulldog Drummond, a design and innovation consultancy headquartered in San Diego whose clients include Starbucks, Adidas, MTV, Nestle, Pinkberry, Virgin, Disney, Nike, Westfield, NESTLE, Pepsi, Jack in the Box, and American Eagle Outfitters. He is also part of a VC firm and invests both financial resources and marketing and brand-building expertise

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