An afternoon in the shark tank, Part I
It’s the part of the job that entrepreneurs look forward to with equal parts excitement and dread. They know they have to do it, and it may help them in the long run, but they … Read more…
Pitch Contest Archives Tag archive for LASB
Startup Weekend Mexico City wrap-up, part I
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…
LatAm entrepreneurs invade San Francisco to disrupt
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…
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…
#SWDF #GOAP #startupsmx
If you don’t know what those hashtags mean, you must not be in Mexico City today. Or if you are in Mexico City and you don’t know what those hashtags mean, you must think Ruby … 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…
Check out the first annual Caribbean BETA
Each country in Latin America has its own particular culture and, it seems, its own particular startup culture. To include Jamaica.
Last week Jamaica hosted Caribbean BETA, a first-of-its-kind tech entrepreneurship conference to expand investments in the … Read more…
