In case you have been living under a rock or just aren’t a tech junkie, you may not be aware of the latest fad in social media technology. It’s gamification.
What exactly is gamification? According to … Read more…
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…
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…
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…
For Spanish-speakers, Startup Chile has posted a video showcasing the results of last year’s efforts by participants in the program. I will break out some of their numbers below, in English.
They received more than 1600 … Read more…
Oony is a company in Buenos Aires that has come up with an interesting mashup/take on the coupon delivery concept popularized recently by Groupon. They still deliver coupons to people that sign up to receive … Read more…
(Hat tip to AndesBeat) While I think it might be a stretch to call Babelverse a Chilean company per se, since their founders are British, French and Greek, respectively, they are based in Chile and … 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…
Uruguayan startup Kidbox has really started to make waves with its kid-friendly surf-station. A participant in Startup Chile as well as the winner of Red Innova, Kidbox aims to provide a safe way for children … Read more…
Colombia’s Startbull was another recent participant in Startup Chile and Red Innova. Although I generally try to resist the temptation to say that a particular company is “X for Y,” obvious comparisons to Stockpickr or … Read more…
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