Op-Ed: SBA ‘tickled pink’ about women entrepreneurs
October 28, 2013
For more than two decades now during the month of October, the color pink has been a symbol of awareness, and women and men alike across the world unabashedly wear it in support of breast cancer victims and its survivors.
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Op-Ed: Investing in women as an economic driver
October 24, 2013
In the early 2000s, Marisol Santiago from Villalba was gainfully employed in the healthcare industry, providing for her family while investing in her future. However, following the onset of the global recession, which still plagues Puerto Rico, Marisol was laid off from her job.
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Deadline looms for microentrepreneurs to seek funding
October 23, 2013
The Puerto Rico Products Association announced that Oct. 24 is the deadline for microentrepreneurs to apply for funding through the Antrocket crowdsourcing platform.
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20 women-owned businesses to split $700K from Doral
August 29, 2013
Doral Bank announced Wednesday the 20 winners of this year’s edition of its “Despegue Empresarial” initiative — a component of its Mujeres d Éxito community program — through which it will assign a total of $700,000 to support the professional and economic growth of women in Puerto Rico.
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Doral Bank gets record applications for ‘Despegue Empresarial’
July 18, 2013
Doral Bank Puerto Rico announced Wednesday it has received a record number of applications for this year's edition of its “Despegue Empresarial” program, an initiative within its “Mujeres d Éxito” institutional campaign that provides capital and mentoring as a growth accelerator for women-owned businesses.
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Coffee shop businesses brewing in Old San Juan
April 23, 2013
San Juan's expanding gourmet coffee service sector suddenly got more interesting with the entry of a Utah-based franchise with an eye catching name, a world-class product, and big plans for Puerto Rico.
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Antrocket.com: First Hispanic crowdfunding site takes off
March 7, 2013
A group of Puerto Rican entrepreneurs, motivated by the desire to solve their own project financing challenges, on Wednesday launched Antrocket.com, the first Hispanic crowdfunding platform.
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Applications open for Puerto Rico Founder Institute spring semester
February 25, 2013
The Founder Institute, the world’s largest start-up accelerator with more than 750 graduate companies, recently announced that applications are open for the Puerto Rico Spring 2013 semester session.
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Chamber of Commerce swears-in college entrepreneurs
October 23, 2012
Under the slogan "We’re all entrepreneurs," 125 young people between the ages of 18 and 22, were sworn-in as members of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce through its College Chapters committee, in an activity held in San Juan that seeks to develop an entrepreneurial attitude for the island’s economic well-being and social development.
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New business mix spurs Santurce’s Loíza St. rebirth
August 6, 2012
The upcoming corporate relocation of a leading convenience store chain to a long-shuttered Loíza Street building, from which it will also run a Quiznos Sub, offers further proof of the ongoing revitalization that is pumping considerable money and breathing renewed vigor into this well-known San Juan area unique for embracing all economic classes: from low-income and middle class to the rich.
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Santander puts money in hands of entrepreneurial students
May 18, 2012
Entrepreneurial college students are the kind of people Banco Santander wants to support not only in Puerto Rico, but wherever it does business worldwide.
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Doral styles college students for workplace
May 18, 2012
As part of its commitment to women at all of their professional stages, Doral Bank this week celebrated the second edition of its “Style a Student” program, through which work attire is donated to college students with limited resources and helps integrate them to the labor force.
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Women in business: SBA has the tools to help you succeed
March 19, 2012
Women-owned businesses are one of the fastest growing sectors of our economy and are growing at twice the rate than any other group in the nation.
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