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Arriendas peer-to-peer car rental helps launch 230 entrepreneurs in Chile

In 2012 Arriendas launched the first peer to peer car rental website in Latin America. The site generates an insurance policy and essentially allows an individual car owner to lease their car to Chilean residents and tourists. Over 200 car owners have registered their car for private rental and the company continues to show steady growth each week. […]

Filed Under: Chile, SVNnews Tagged With: chile, chile startups

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Let’s celebrate! 1000 entrepreneurs have lived the Start-Up Chile experience

It’s been an amazing ride and time to celebrate: more than 1000 entrepreneurs have lived the Start-Up Chile experience, launching amazing companies while inspiring Chileans to do the same! Yesterday night, we invited suppers, local authorities, and many Start-Up Chile friends so they would come to our house and celebrate what we all have built […]

Filed Under: Chile, SVNnews Tagged With: chile, startup chile, startups

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FunPuntos acquired by Acid Labs

With Latin American countries topping the ‘happiness’ global ranking report (2013), FunPuntos news that they have been acquired provides another step forward in their mission to see that the region’s customer retail experience will be the same. Just 59 days after FunPuntos (Fun Points) announced its launch, today we bring news from an official company representative that […]

Filed Under: Chile, SVNnews Tagged With: chile, chile startups

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Start-Up Chile: Growing Pains of the Chilecon Valley

How a government led incubator is attracting and building the next high tech community of start-ups in South America. Call it the Chilecon Valley or call it crazy. In 2010, the Chilean government launched Start-Up Chile’s revolutionary pilot program in the hopes of positioning Chile as the innovation and entrepreneurship hub of Latin America. To tackle […]

Filed Under: Chile, SVNnews Tagged With: chile, chilecon valley, startup chile

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Which country has most economic freedom?

For the 19th year in a row, the Heritage Foundation, a conservative American think tank, has ranked the city of Hong Kong the freest economy in the world. Singapore was a close second, however, followed by Australia and New Zealand. Switzerland was ranked fifth. The U.S., which has the world’s largest economy, was ranked 10th […]

Filed Under: Chile, SVNnews Tagged With: chile, economy

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The Chilecon Valley Challenge

In the war for talent, America can learn a lot from Chile THE world’s most valuable resource is talent. No country grows enough of it. Some, however, enjoy the colossal advantage of being able to import it. Rich, peaceful countries can attract clever immigrants. Unlike other useful imports, they cost the recipient country nothing. They […]

Filed Under: Chile, SVNnews Tagged With: chile, chilecon valley, start-up chile, startups entrepreneur ecosystem

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The Lure Of Chilecon Valley

As America shuts out immigrant entrepreneurs, Chile welcomes them ONE by one they came to the stage and pitched their ideas to the crowd. There was the founder of Kwelia.com, which makes software that helps landlords mint more money from their properties. There was the co-founder of Chef Surfing, an online service for people looking […]

Filed Under: Chile, SVNnews Tagged With: entrepreneur, entrepreneurial ecosystem, entrepreneurship, start-up chile

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Start-Up Chile Holds Its First Demo Day In San Francisco

Start-Up Chile is an accelerator program that is financed by the Chilean government and meant to jumpstart the tech community in the South American country. Today, the program is holding its first demo day in San Francisco. What’s especially interesting about Start-Up Chile is that the program, which started in 2010 and has already graduated four […]

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How Start-Up Chile Is Attracting Startups From Singapore, London, and San Francisco

Socialance is a startup out of London that has moved to Santiago, Chile, for six months. The reason for the move is pretty straightforward: Start-Up Chile is giving the company $40,000 without taking any equity stake. And the rent is relatively cheap. Start-Up Chile, which was here at Disrupt San Francisco, has attracted about 500 […]

Filed Under: Chile, SVNnews Tagged With: chile, santiago, startup chile, startups

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Start-Up Chile attracts foreign entrepreneurs to South America

In a typical tech industry incubator space in the Palermo Soho district of Buenos Aires — laptops on communal tables, white dry erase boards, playfully bright paint — three Americans are building a sales site for Latin American travel deals. Co-founders Scott Thompson and Scott Bird, as well as first employee Francesca Larson, don’t speak […]

Filed Under: Chile, SVNnews Tagged With: entrepreneur, entrepreneurial ecosystem, south america, startup chile, startups

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