Will Junar Crush It?
I cribbed the title above from Junar’s first blog post, but it does indeed appear that Junar is well on its way to “crushing it.”
Junar is one of those rare startups that is sui generis – … Read more…
Archive forFebruary 2012 - LASB
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Investomex Founder Sergio Romo
This is another in my series of email interviews with founders of organizations involved in tech entrepreneurship in Latin America. Today I’m talking with Sergio Romo, founder of Investomex, a venture capital fund which invests in … Read more…
What business is going crazy in Latin America?
The answer: mobile phones. In case you weren’t aware, people in Latin America are very social. As in crazy social. As in amazingly social. As in always connected social. In December 2011, Facebook’s largest penetration rate in … Read more…
SourceTour wants to help you find adventure
When I was just out of college a few (ahem) years ago, my roommate and I decided to go in search of adventure. ”Staying in the United States was soooo cliché,” we thought. ”We need … Read more…
Disrupting event sales: PlanetaTicket
While I don’t have a full understanding of event ticket sales in Latin America, I have to believe the model there is fairly similar to those in the United States: either a couple of large … Read more…
Tripfab cracks the door a bit
Back in November, I wrote a short post about Tripfab, a stealth startup in Costa Rica that promised to “make the travel industry s*it it’s pants. Seriously.” No hyperbole there. Well, I’ve been checking back … Read more…
Buenos Aires à la Française
If you are signed up to Angel List (as we are), chances are you got a notification today that they are trying out a new experimental (or permanent?) format for profiles. I gave it a … Read more…
Startup success factors, LatAm edition
One of the Spanish language blogs I’ve started looking at regularly is Capital Disruptivo, written by Manuel Landa, founder of the Startup Factory, a tech incubator/venture capital fund based in Mexico City.
In January of this … Read more…
The Crunchies: Peixe Urbano the first LatAm winner
The Crunchies are TechCrunch’s version of The Oscars; TechCrunch, a major force in the tech entrepreneur community, holds the awards ceremony annually, and the award is a coveted recognition of a startup’s mojo.
This year, Peixe … Read more…
