Helping Startups Accelerate Funding
Sheela Murthy finds herself smack in the middle of America’s immigration reform debate, reminding us that the proposed legislation is not about the length of fences or number of visas, but about real people looking to live the American dream. Billboard in Silicon Valley. Photo: Debora Villalon, KTVU For many, that dream is steeped in […]
Photo Credit: Robert Dombkowski The application process for the 8th round of entrepreneurs closed midnight, June 27th. Start-up Chile received 1386 applications from 63 different countries, and the projects represent a myriad of industries from Social Media to Energy and Natural Resources. The most represented countries among applying founders were Chile (28%), United States (13%), Argentina (7%), and […]
Tech entrepreneur, Clara Shih, was recently elected to the Starbucks Board of Directors to replace Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg–who will not be seeking re-election in 2012. Although she doesn’t want to opine on why Starbucks would want to hire her, I suppose this could answer the question: Starbucks considers her a pioneer within the technology industry. Pioneer indeed. Shih is one woman who created […]
OPINION: I’ve been running a digital marketing agency called ApeForest for a few years now and in late 2012, my co-founder and I were accepted for Startup Chile. The program gave us resources and focused our attention on building ContentForest – a ‘productised’ version of what we did for clients in our agency. We finished […]
How a government led incubator is attracting and building the next high tech community of start-ups in South America. Call it the Chilecon Valley or call it crazy. In 2010, the Chilean government launched Start-Up Chile’s revolutionary pilot program in the hopes of positioning Chile as the innovation and entrepreneurship hub of Latin America. To tackle […]
More and more, I have entrepreneurs coming to me before a major competition, pitch event, or conference saying, “We only have _____ (fill in the blank with any single-digit number) minutes to present. How do we get it all in?” I also coach hundreds of accelerator demo days, and with each event they seem to […]
Co-working spaces are often treated today as a novelty, as a thoroughly modern solution to the changing needs of a workforce now more loyal to their laptops than any long-term employers. But the idea is actually as old as the public library. One of the world’s first and most famous libraries, in Alexandria, Egypt, […]
The Internet makes it easy to collaborate across borders. But despite the rise of remote work and virtual teams, founders still need to travel for business sometimes. For some, travel practically becomes the job. And while data and capital now flow virtually unrestricted across borders, physical border crossing have gotten no easier. That’s causing headaches for […]
I started my business about a year ago with some personal funds and the help of friends and family. My problem is that in order to take my business to the next level, I need another infusion of funds. My business plan has me being profitable in 16 months. Can you tell me a bit […]
For the 19th year in a row, the Heritage Foundation, a conservative American think tank, has ranked the city of Hong Kong the freest economy in the world. Singapore was a close second, however, followed by Australia and New Zealand. Switzerland was ranked fifth. The U.S., which has the world’s largest economy, was ranked 10th […]
