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Posts Tagged ‘Honduras

Life after payment

Posted by: Geries Handal on: August 31, 2008

In Tegucigalpa (Honduras) you will find individuals in the stop lights try to make a living by selling you some sort of product or service. In other occasions you will find kids asking for one Lempira* or any kind help. Its common to find kids offering to clean your windshield in exchange for some change.
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Chasing the Seller

Posted by: Geries Handal on: August 11, 2008

Currently I’m looking to buy a new laptop, the one I have right now works fine, the challenge is that is 17 inch. It’s becoming a hassle to carry it from one place to another, especially when studying a master abroad. In Honduras you will find many places where you can buy a new laptop, [...]

Profitable startups: the traditional way

Posted by: Geries Handal on: June 29, 2008

This is a nice presentation (and point of view) on how to make (and run) profitable business. The nice thing is that it goes “retro” where gives arguments on that the revenue model of putting a price on a product/service, still works and that its really better that trying to be the next youtube, facebook, [...]

Entrepreneurship in Honduras

Posted by: Geries Handal on: March 11, 2008

Honduras is a very entrepreneurial country. People have to be that way if they want to survive. In the streets we will sell you everything, from cell phone and car accessories, to cell phone prepaid cards, entertainment (people playing with fire or doing tricks with a mice), those DVDs of movies that are [...]


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