Helping Startups Accelerate Funding
Atlanta’s ecosystem for early stage startups has exponentially improved in recent years. I myself came to Atlanta nearly 15 years ago looking for greener pastures when engineering talent in Silicon Valley was slim and I was fed up with inflated salaries and sky-high real estate costs. Within two months of moving to Atlanta, I had […]
Leading a midsized business is fundamentally different than leading a small business. Startups have to be led by a person who is hands on and given a snewly-founded company’s limited resources, it can only hire as many helpers as are critical to get going. If the team does its job well, the business will grow. […]
HERE’S A HINT: IT’S NOT YOUR COMPANY. How many times have you heard startups are hard and companies fail? You know the drill. Think about it: If angel investors were actually buying your company, they would be much more interested in its outcome. But they aren’t. Sure, angel investors are taking a small option to […]
It’s been an amazing ride and time to celebrate: more than 1000 entrepreneurs have lived the Start-Up Chile experience, launching amazing companies while inspiring Chileans to do the same! Yesterday night, we invited suppers, local authorities, and many Start-Up Chile friends so they would come to our house and celebrate what we all have built […]
Online restaurant reservation service TableGrabber has expanded its operations to Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro in Brazil and Santiago in Chile. The Brazil expansion was first reported by TechCircle. Speaking to Medianama, TableGrabber CEO Pawan Marwaha said that they currently offer English versions of the site in these regions, but they have developed Portuguese and Spanish versions and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Socialance is a startup out of London that has moved to Santiago, Chile, for six months. The reason for the move is pretty straightforward: Start-Up Chile is giving the company $40,000 without taking any equity stake. And the rent is relatively cheap. Start-Up Chile, which was here at Disrupt San Francisco, has attracted about 500 […]
In a typical tech industry incubator space in the Palermo Soho district of Buenos Aires — laptops on communal tables, white dry erase boards, playfully bright paint — three Americans are building a sales site for Latin American travel deals. Co-founders Scott Thompson and Scott Bird, as well as first employee Francesca Larson, don’t speak […]
