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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.

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Transformify Partners with Laboratoria to Empower Young Women and Girls in Latin America

Transformify

Only those women who are placed in jobs pay back to Laboratoria and they continue studying in Laboratoria while working, for 18 more months, further improving their technical and soft skills, and learning English, in order to have access to the global market. In 2 years we have trained more than 400 students in Peru, Chile, and México.

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Magnificent Mobile Website And App Analytics: Reports, Metrics, How-to!

Occam's Razor

According to Pew, while cell phones are nearly ubiquitous around the world (95% China, 91% Chile, 82% Kenya), penetration of smartphones are still getting there (37% China, 39% Chile, 19% Kenya). You can track mobile websites just fine with your standard web analytics tool. This will just give you the standard tagging.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

We’ve gone global as well. Haas global footprint. For example, our Intel Technology To Market Accelerator took 22 teams from 11 countries across 15 time zones, from northern Russia to southern Chile and from Saudi Arabia to the U.S. Clearly, lean works globally. In fact, it works globally. Berkeley-wide.

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How Start-Up Chile Helps Entrepreneurs and Chile Alike

ReadWriteStart

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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Innovations from the Lonely Planet

deal architect

Innovations from various parts of the world we don’t usually expect innovation from The bookless library – San Antonio, TX Changing global wine map - Georgia, China, Chile Battling remote Oil spills – Arctic Circle Common Core Standards – State. Innovative Business Uses of Technology'

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Isidoro Quiroga: “South America’s Warren Buffet” Mogul Makes Next Move

The Startup Magazine

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.