ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Startup accelerators: There are more of them – and more demand to land a spot within one – than ever before. A common problem with entrepreneurs is that they go into their caves and forget to build the relationships necessary for their companies to grow. I have been a part of both Startup Chile and now TechStars in Boston.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 13, 2018

The Start-Up Chile accelerator was arguably the spark that ignited Chile’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Chilean government, through the development agency CORFO, founded Start-Up Chile in 2010 as a way to bring in foreign entrepreneurs who would galvanize Chile’s transition into an economy built on technology and innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2010

Entrepreneurs who search for real pain points, and build solutions around them, have the best chance of changing the world. As an alternative, if you are an entrepreneur looking for the next big thing, where should you look? That’s the great thing about being an entrepreneur. Some kind of natural or man-made disaster.

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David Cohen

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

I’m really looking forward to my upcoming trip to Santiago, Chile where I’ll be speaking about startup communities at Common Pitch Chile along with some incredible people including Al Gore , who is the keynote speaker. I’m very excited to have lunch with him and learn all about the Internet!).

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

We wanted to share some other trends we observed; Countries have startups that play to their strengths. Silicon Valley is made up of solely one industry: technology, whereas countries in emerging markets have existing industries, around which entrepreneurs are innovating. Many startups are Silicon Valley clones.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Chilean billionaire and entrepreneur Isidoro Quiroga has been called South America’s Warren Buffet for his near-perfect investment portfolio and his ability to transform businesses from small firms to global leaders. He currently owns businesses in Chile , Argentina, and Australia. He began his success in the agricultural industry.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. ” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast.

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David Cohen

DECEMBER 2, 2012

I spent the past few days in Santiago, Chile, playing tennis with an ex-pro, having lunch with Al Gore…you know, the usual grind. I was there to take part as a speaker at Common Pitch Chile , where I met a bunch of interesting entrepreneurs who are doing really exciting things.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

The evidence: (i) Startups are responsible for virtually all the new jobs created in the United States since 1977 (Source: Kauffman Foundation). The Importance of Startups in Job Creation and Job Destruction bases its findings on the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS), a U.S. GDP growth, the U.S. government dataset compiled by the U.S.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Santiago de Chile is an understatedly cool city. Sure, it doesn’t have the classical buildings of Buenos Aires or the ageless allure of Rio, but what’s lacking in historic charm is made up for with a modernity that achieves being progressive yet unpretentious.

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The Next Web

JULY 21, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Güimar Vaca Sittic , a two time Internet entrepreneur currently working at Quasar Ventures based in Buenos Aires, and a Startup Chile Judge. Being an entrepreneur is all about enthusiasm and energy. Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion' Image credit: Thinkstock.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2012

For many young entrepreneurs, getting their parents’ support for a new venture can make a huge difference - emotionally, practically and even financially. But it’s not always easy to explain to Mom and Dad why, instead of getting a “real job,” you’re putting everything on the line to create a new technology startup.

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Up and Running

APRIL 10, 2017

As it turns out, this is very similar to the experience of working at or founding a startup company. Often times you don’t have any idea what you’ll be doing from one day to the next, and how you learn to react to the constant stream of new information can be the key to success, or at least enjoying your time at a startup. No one can.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Chile’s Shantytowns Are a Last Resort — and Growing Fast [Eduardo Thomson/Bloomberg] – Historically sitting here in the US we’d expect to read stories like this about places distant from our own country. These tomas are growing at a dizzying rate all around Chile. That I can get behind.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This is why it is especially important for startup founders to seek help to guide them through the tedious and often perilous process of starting and growing a company. In recent years, startup accelerators and startup incubators have become the place of choice for any budding entrepreneurs to be the next unicorn.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2010

Content recommendation for years has been a startup graveyard. Tell me who 5%-10% of my network follows that I don’t—so I don’t get recommendations to follow Fred Wilson or Robert Scoble, but I do get the entrepreneur in my network that I’m probably bound to run into and say, “How have we not met yet? We know 30 people in common.”

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 31, 2010

So we elect an entrepreneur as President, who promises to unleash the free market to restore our economic engine of growth and prosperity. This new leader slashes taxes and cuts through the red tape that has bogged down entrepreneurs for generations. Take a look to our south at Chile. Want to see what this future looks like?

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2016

It’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot. If you search Google News for something like “new startup accelerator,” it will return hundreds of headlines from all over the world. Keeping in mind these… This story continues at The Next Web.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Predicting the future is notoriously difficult, and the volatile world of high-tech startups don’t make things any easier. Startup accelerators were a big story in 2012. That means more funding for startups targeting the enterprise in 2013, less funding for startups aimed at consumers. Accelerators Will Slow Down.

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David Cohen

JUNE 16, 2015

Today we announced that Techstars has acquired UP Global, which includes Startup Weekend and many other fantastic events and programs. Startup Weekend is my absolute favorite global event for entrepreneurship. Startup Weekend was quite literally born in my office at Techstars in 2007. Events were happening all over the world.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2011

From Naveen Jain : Our unwillingness to champion entrepreneurs, no matter where they come from, is part of a larger attitude problem around entrepreneurship: We don’t celebrate their achievements as much as we should, and our government support of entrepreneurs is weak. Here’s what we need to make this vision happen.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I recently wrote a post noting that while the growth cycle of startups has clearly accelerated in the last 5 years, the number of truly monster new businesses (a company ultimately worth $75-100B) remains about the same … it’s a once in a decade sort of thing. February 2, 2012.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

This is why it is especially important for startup founders to seek help to guide them through the tedious and often perilous process of starting and growing a company. In recent years, startup accelerators and startup incubators have become the place of choice for any budding entrepreneurs to be the next unicorn.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Entrepreneurs find the right innovations from networks and build them into products and services with business models. Entrepreneurs are the individuals and teams who put together the various insights and resources from networks—and then work to build the organizations that provide the new products and services.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

New research shows Silicon Valley still rules the startup world. Startups based in the region stretching from San Francisco to San Jose raise more funding, make more money and have smarter people than startups in any other place. Sure, Silicon Valley is far and away the strongest startup region anywhere. (See

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

has announced that it is partnering search giant Google to support the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the United States and around the world. Both companies will jointly be investing in activities that foster innovation and supporting startups, beginning with Women 2.0 ‘s signature networking event Founder Friday.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 5, 2013

Passive Income vs Startup Guy. It seems that a typical “successful” startup life cycle looks like this: Build a product. There are really two kinds of startups. But small businesses startups have very different objectives than scalable startups. Investors play a big role in scalable startups. Make a sale.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 3, 2016

In 2016, you no longer have to be in Silicon Valley to launch a successful startup. Today, immigrants represent more than 10 percent of Colorado’s entrepreneurs. Today it is just as likely to be someone born in Beijing or Jaipur as it is to be someone from Boston or Boulder. Colorado is home to many.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 20, 2013

Petrucelli is the founder and executive chairman of iClearpath, a n online immigration startup. As a result, the percentage of immigrant-founded startups in Silicon Valley has declined from 52.4% As a result, the percentage of immigrant-founded startups in Silicon Valley has declined from 52.4% in 2005 to 43.9% in 2005 to 43.9%

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 6, 2012

While some might question the sanity of an individual who decides to make Greek startups a cornerstone of a plan to spread entrepreneurship around the world, Gary Whitehill says the young, entrepreneurial tech startup economy taking hold there offers lessons for startups everywhere. Entrepreneurs as Outcasts.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 6, 2012

While some might question the sanity of an individual who decides to make Greek startups a cornerstone of a plan to spread entrepreneurship around the world, Gary Whitehill says the young, entrepreneurial tech startup economy taking hold there offers lessons for startups everywhere. he says, when it comes to supporting startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, April 17, 2010 Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Hear the CEO of KISSmetrics give a sneak preview of what hell be presenting at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23 (were less than a week away!): Our sponsors continue to support the conference as well as deserving entrepreneurs.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

trav (2010-06-19) # This is GPS for would-be web entrepreneurs lost in a sea of ideas with no sailors to steer their imaginary ship. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Bless you, chile!

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