Duolingo’s Luis von Ahn: “I Just Want to Have an Impact”
The Guatemalan CEO of the mega-successful app is speaking out about inequality, corruption and more.
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AQ Top 5 líderes de la igualdad de género: Susana García-Robles
La inversionista que ayuda a las mujeres a perseguir sus sueños.
AQ Top 5 Champions of Gender Equality: Susana García-Robles
The investor helping women go after their dreams.
Let’s Get Creative: Innovative Ways to Finance Women in Latin America
Building an investor ecosystem for female entrepreneurs can help close persistent funding gaps.
How Extortion Is Holding Back Mexico’s Small Businesses
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Mexican entrepreneurs grapple with obstacles to expansion. Here’s one reason why many choose to stay small.
How a New Program Is Cutting the ‘Brazil Cost’ for Entrepreneurs
Marcelo Sasso worked in the finance department of a São Paulo advertising firm, and was good at his job. So good, in fact, that friends and acquaintances often came to him for advice. This raised a question: Why not start his own financial administration and consulting company? For starters, the risks were daunting. The country … Read more
Medellín Proves Investing In Science Is a Good Bet for Cities
In the early 2000s, Medellín struggled to overcome high unemployment, inequality, and a lack of infrastructure and services in its poorest areas. The city needed not just incremental but radical change in order to tackle these challenges and succeed in an ever more competitive global context. To accomplish this, the city’s academics, businesspeople and civic … Read more
The Double Standard Facing Latin America’s Women Entrepreneurs
Vilma Tellez Ballesteros has been a coffee producer for most of her life, running a successful business from her home in northern Nicaragua for more than two decades. But when she goes to the bank to negotiate loans, she brings her husband with her. “They listen to him,” her daughter, Carmen Davila Tellez, told AQ. … Read more
