LatAm entries in #gsb2012
We’ve written quite a bit over the last year or so about Startup Weekend, a phenomenon that’s helped raise interest worldwide in the concept of entrepreneurship. Last year, they took it global and called it … Read more…
Contest Archives Tag archive for LASB
Preview of Entrepreneur Week Rio
As more and more foreign investors and entrepreneurs “discover” Latin America, interest has grown in the concept of entrepreneurship within the region. Never a traditional career path in Latin America, entrepreneurship has become virtually its … Read more…
SnappyGo wins PulsoConf startup competition 2012
PulsoSocial’s “PulsoConf” wrapped up a couple of days ago, ending with its startup competition 2012. The competition amongst six startup companies including the winner of the PulsoConf hackathon, Pollbag, was won by Colombian startup SnappyGo, a … Read more…
It had to happen: F#!% Yeah T-shirts
There’s a post I’ve been thinking about writing for a while: startups I wish existed in Latin America. Part of the problem is that in order to do a decent job with that kind of … Read more…
When the infrastructure isn’t up to Skype: Wormhole IT
This is another post by LeRoy Cole, a recent college graduate currently interning at 21212 Digital Accelerator in Rio de Janeiro (21212.com). He is also trying his hand at blogging on leroycole.com. Follow him on twitter (@leroycole).
One … Read more…
LatAm Startup Challenge announced for TechCrunch Disrupt
FnBox, a sort of hybrid accelerator/app company with a healthy footprint in Latin America, has just announced that it will be hosting the LatAm Startup Challenge at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco the week of … Read more…
Startup World Mexico City, Part II
On August 16th, I attended the first event in Latin America for Startup World, a global competition for startups, moderated by Hermione Way, of the Next Web. This is the second post giving a synopsis … Read more…
Startup World Mexico City, Part I
On Thursday of last week (16 August) I attended Startup World Mexico City, one of many to be held worldwide and the first one in Latin America, moderated by Hermione Way. I had just arrived … Read more…
MY winners of Wayra Colombia
So the winners of WayraWeek Colombia have been announced, and they’re an interesting crop. I’m always interested to see what companies get chosen and in what order, and I often find myself wondering whether I’ve … Read more…
Startup Weekend Bogota: The winners
Okay, so I’m a bit late to this party but I’ve been covering other things lately and generally pontificating, so I only just got around to looking at how Startup Weekend Bogota went. It appears … Read more…
