Startup Weekend seems to have evolved from a “merely” good idea to a genuine phenomenon developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem worldwide. In the runup to Global Entrepreneurship Week (12-18 November), I’m told that there were something … Read more…
Welcome, Ehip News readers! Like you, we’re passionate about the startup ecosystem everywhere, but we’re focused on Latin America. Chances are, you have come here from our recent story on Poliglota.
Take a few minutes and … Read more…
A recent article on the Harvard Business Review’s blog network warned of the “danger of celebritizing entrepreneurship.” Featuring a contrived graph of socioeconomic value creation (a HBR term if ever there was one), the article … Read more…
I’m a few days late to my own celebration, but just about one year ago, on 6 November 2011, I started writing blog posts about the tech startup industry in Latin America. I was still … Read more…
On Wednesday of this week, I had the great pleasure of attending Capital Emprendedor, a conference that, as its name suggests, was devoted to discussions of venture capital in Mexico. The conference took place at … Read more…
One thing that is sadly lacking in a lot of development and “sustainability” projects is, frankly, competition. It’s hard to argue against sustainability, or development — they seem so self-evidently good that their seemingly honest and … Read more…
There’s an old joke that goes like this:
If you speak three languages, you’re called trilingual.
If you speak two languages, you’re called bilingual.
If you speak one language, you’re called American.
As an American myself, I have to admit there’s a … Read more…
Mexico is the second largest market in Latin America, after Brazil. It’s the largest Spanish-speaking market in Latin America. It’s arguably the center of wealth and has the fastest growing, most statistically significant middle class … Read more…
I don’t often write about pre-launch companies, but after I wrote yesterday about the “black holes” of tech entrepreneurship in Latin America, I thought it was high time I started looking a bit further afield … Read more…
I heard years ago from a friend who lived in Africa and traveled quite a bit around the continent that there was a space over part of West Africa that had absolutely no radar whatsoever. … Read more…
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