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…
In any new endeavor or community, one of the keys to moving forward is getting people excited. It’s called the Enthusiasm Gap: it’s the chasm that has to be bridged in order to build a … Read more…
As described in my last post, I recently attended the final pitch session for Startup Weekend Mexico City (a/k/a #SWDF). The auditorium was packed, and thirteen teams presented the results of their 54 hours worth … Read more…
As was recently noted by our friends at Emprende.la in TechCrunch (read it if you haven’t), Mexico currently has more chapters of Startup Weekend than any country except the United States, which is no small … Read more…
This has been quite a week in Silicon Valley for Latin America. In addition to TechCrunch Disrupt, a group from Argentina and Brazil have “invaded” Silicon Valley to present their companies to investors and other … Read more…
Although of course there are millions of ordinary people in Latin America that don’t give a second thought to the notion of tech entrepreneurship, in that small but growing community of people that do care on … Read more…
As the topics covered by events are becoming more widely followed, particularly in the technology community, demand seems to be growing for new and more useful ways to bring those events to people that want … Read more…
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…
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…
To be clear, I’m not encouraging you to hack Facebook (OTOH, I’m not discouraging you either). Rather, it appears that Facebook is actually hosting a world hackathon. And, not to leave anyone out, they have included countries … Read more…
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