David Venegas

Founder at Spark Economics - leveraging technology to promote economic growth.

[David Venegas @david_venegas]

@joshm Día is amazing, but I'm still missing the Profile icons from Arc, right now the Dia dit buttons to switch from one profile to another are super tiny and difficult to click, the Arc buttons were much easier to identify which profile it is and navigate to it

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Edwin has been a welder since high school, and taught himself to build machines from YouTube videos, including brick makers and wood cutters. His shop in Honduras has 11 employees but his manufacturing process had a major bottleneck cutting metal sheets all day with a handheld electric cutter, taking hours and wasting material.
Through Spark Economics, Edwin received a donated CNC plasma cutter! Now cutting is fast, clean and precise. His employees are now focusing on more important parts of the process.

Check out the plasma cutter machine in the video below!

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@ryancunningham As a teenager I experienced, bullying, sadness and confused identity, but the holy spirit spoke to me, at 18 years old, that my confused mind was not my identity but that my identity was in Him. This word gave me hope and made my confused mind clear for the rest of my adulthood

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@NormaRo34869400 Muchas gracias Norma!!

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We met Luis back in march and we were very inspired by his work so we donated a grain-filling machine for his coffee business!!

He grew up with his parents who have a coffee farm, and in the last few years he started a next generation coffee business by doing a coffee shop, roasting coffee beans and selling his own brand to other businesses in the country. He currently purchases about 20% of his parent's coffee production, and purchases the rest from other coffee producers.

With donations like these, we're bringing automation to entrepreneurs in rural areas of developing countries! Find out more at https://t.co/E7cQzb4vTi

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@MistralAI very cool UI for finding vulnerabilities

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@Thom_Wolf sounds like a Star Wars character

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@morganpel they're bringing the IMF to tell the government where to cut costs, so that political parties blame the IMF for the downsizing of the government

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Our second cohort of rural entrepreneurs is fully funded! Thanks to donors across five continents, six entrepreneurs in Talanga, Honduras now have new machinery to grow their businesses in coffee, wine, meat, woodworking and honey. Read the full story:
https://t.co/eNUYrSxx5H

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From the beginning to the end...

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@FourToedJones @CaryKelly11 It's usually grass fed there, that's why

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We just launched the Spark Economics website to explain how the model works and show you the entrepreneurs from our first pilot project
https://t.co/gVls918kvT

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@inneroperator people are thirsty, those who look for him find him

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We fundraised and purchased 4 machines to generate jobs in rural areas through technology, so that people don't have to migrate and instead can thrive in their own community. If this works out, we'll be able to replicate it in more places

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New machines are arriving at the small businesses we’re partnering with in Honduras to help them scale and reach the next level

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@singhabhinav Not only it keeps the value of their money versus their deflaniotary currency system, but I can imagine they're also earning interest on their USDC

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@NormaRo34869400 Muchas gracias, tenemos pendientes los resultados para ir midiendo el impacto

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https://t.co/fgjlPCETAg

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@rvenegas53 💯!

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Wrote an article on a new model for generating jobs in rural areas so that people have the option to stay and not migrate to the US or Europe!

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https://t.co/fgjlPCETAg