ReadWriteStart

APRIL 17, 2012

It's the plight of every startup: mucho trabajo, poco dinero. Steve Davis packed his laptop and his Spanish phrasebook and moved to Chile. On arrival, a government program called Start-Up Chile handed him $40,000, no equity required. Start-Up Chile has received criticism from some participants. What to do? They raised $1.6

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

I’ve known Professor Cristobal Garcia since 2010 when he hosted my first visit to Catholic University in Santiago of Chile and to southern Patagonia. He presented to organizations in the Netherlands, Chile, Spain, the UK (Ministry of Defense and the BBC), and aerospace companies. Rewards, CEO, team, complexity, end point, etc.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. It has replaced how to write a business plan with hands-on Lean Startup methods. That has changed in the last few years.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Startup accelerators: There are more of them – and more demand to land a spot within one – than ever before. I have been a part of both Startup Chile and now TechStars in Boston. Match Startup Needs To Accelerator Offerings. Finding mentors is one of the many reasons that startups use an accelerator.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2010

Maybe we haven’t seen the results yet, but there are thousands of startup opportunities to offer new products and services, to replace those in crisis. Tags: entrepreneur startup change opportunity business. Some kind of natural or man-made disaster. That’s the great thing about being an entrepreneur. You get to choose your pain.

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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. Brazilians like to fiesta and have a huge bar and restaurant industry, startups like our Rio finalist We Go Out are helping people to find the best parties and events to go to tonight by showing you where your friends are checking in.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Among his many investments and acquisitions are Banco de Chile, Enphase Energy, Entel, Australis Seafoods, SQM, PIlmaiquén Electric Company, and Minera Fuego. He currently owns businesses in Chile , Argentina, and Australia. Quiroga is the founder and CEO of Asesorias e Inversiones Benjamin S.A.,

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. My post about Japan will follow. All the usual caveats apply.

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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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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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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2012

Babelverse is a start-up founded by Mayel de Borniol and Josef Dunne that was part of the government-backed accelerator program, Start-Up Chile. Now that’s a lot of tongues.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. My post about Japan will follow. All the usual caveats apply.

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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. He is a graduate from The University of Chicago and former Director of TEDxUChicago. . Being an entrepreneur is all about enthusiasm and energy.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2012

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. It can be done, though, and these youthful startup veterans explain how: Tip #1: Don’t get too full of yourself. Tip #4: Keep them in the loop.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2012

And some countries - like Chile, for example - offer startups significant financial incentives. Whatever your reasons, in addition to everything required for a domestic startup, doing it in a foreign environment requires a lot of extra research, a good deal of patience and - as always - a bit of luck.

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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.

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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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Austin Startup

JULY 19, 2021

With the sheer number of startups, talent and investment funds within Austin or moving to the city, it is no surprise that the number of individuals relocating to the area continues to increase. The city was ranked number 6 on CBRE’s Tech Talent Report in 2020 out of 50 North American markets and is home to 5,500 startups.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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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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The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 31, 2010

Take a look to our south at Chile. Ortmans' writes a post at Policy Forum Blog in which he examines the fact that, while an economic success story in South America, Chile has not been able to unleash entrepreneurial growth in its economy. Unfortunately, Chile is not yet a startup culture, and innovation still plays a.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2010

Content recommendation for years has been a startup graveyard. Should 50% of my content stream be Mets articles, or should I be concerned about the earthquake in Chile, too? Sure, a few companies like Sphere/Surphace and StumbleUpon have been able to get out—but the number of folks who have tried to solve this is vast.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 29, 2013

A year ago, TechRanch expanded its reach into Chile. It struck up a partnership with startups in South America to foster that region’s entrepreneurial base. Now, TechRanch, a coworking space and incubator in Austin, has expanded even further this time into Asia with a partnership in the city-state island of Singapore.

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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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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

For several years prior to moving back to Austin, Kevin worked in Chile with small businesses, building incubators to help people form businesses. Most give a small startup a space to work, but Kevin and Jonas hold biweekly campfires to help their partners learn about the various tools needed to help a business succeed.

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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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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2011

We can learn valuable lessons from Start-Up Chile, an effort funded by the Chilean government that aims to attract early-stage entrepreneurs from all over the world to launch their businesses in that country. The program provides subsidies to teams of entrepreneurs along with access to sources of capital.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 14, 2016

The story of copper illustrates perfectly just how interdependent and volatile the global economy is. China’s economy slows, so miners in… Continue reading on Medium ».

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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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