This is another in an ongoing series where LASB talks with entrepreneurs and investors in the Latin America startup community. Today we’re talking with Joshua Francia Torres, of Boletia. Boletia is not unlike Eventbrite but … Read more…
Coming up on one year ago, I assigned myself the task of writing about LatAm technology, i.e. about technology startups in Latin America. I was seriously considering moving to Mexico (which I subsequently did) and … Read more…
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…
As we alluded to in a previous post, one of the hallmarks of a developed startup ecosystem is when unambiguous “exits” occur. In the United States, the main type of “exit” people think of is … Read more…
It’s great to have an idea. It’s great when people develop those ideas. It’s great when people use the stuff that people develop. And it’s great that entrepreneurs can make money doing all of this, … Read more…
I admit that headline was gratuitous. No, Uber did not expand to Chile. Some folks in Chile are using something very similar to Uber’s model and are calling themselves UbiMovil, which one might opine is … Read more…
If you like this post, please ‘like’ it on Facebook or tweet it to your followers using the icons at the bottom of this post!I am sometimes faintly amused when people bash the Samwer brothers. … Read more…
Via Startup Digest Colombia, I learned this week about Monomi.co, a company that offers Colombians (and presumably others) to establish an instant web storefront to sell physical items. Without signing in, it’s difficult to see … Read more…
A few days ago, I wrote about how great I thought it was that a company from Guadalajara, Mexico, had had such success with its project on Kickstarter. The Estylo iPad stylus looked like a … Read more…
Via a Convore conversation (link in Spanish), I just came across Yoin.mx, which appears to be a fairly straight copy of Yelp (which, near as I can tell, doesn’t aggregate information for Mexico City yet, … Read more…
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