Atlanta’s ecosystem for early stage startups has exponentially improved in recent years. I myself came to Atlanta nearly 15 years ago looking for greener pastures when engineering talent in Silicon Valley was slim and I was fed up with inflated salaries and sky-high real estate costs. Within two months of moving to Atlanta, I had […]
4 Signs It’s Time for Your Startup to Grow Up
Leading a midsized business is fundamentally different than leading a small business. Startups have to be led by a person who is hands on and given a snewly-founded company’s limited resources, it can only hire as many helpers as are critical to get going. If the team does its job well, the business will grow. […]
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 […]
Lessons from Startup Chile
OPINION: I’ve been running a digital marketing agency called ApeForest for a few years now and in late 2012, my co-founder and I were accepted for Startup Chile. The program gave us resources and focused our attention on building ContentForest – a ‘productised’ version of what we did for clients in our agency. We finished […]
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 […]
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 […]
As Hollywood eyes startups, TechStars get the rock star treatment
It’s showtime, and TechStars New York managing director David Tisch isn’t wearing his normal uniform — an oversized t-shirt bearing the name of one of the startups in his accelerator program. Instead, he’s opted for a Ralph Lauren oxford, a haircut and a fresh shave as he takes the stage for the program’s second New […]
Where Creators Are Welcome
Access Your Files Anywhere, Anytime with Zip Cloud Australia, Canada and even Chile are more open than America MOST governments say they want to encourage entrepreneurs. Yet when foreigners with ideas come knocking, they slam doors in their faces. America, surprisingly, is one of the worst offenders. It has no specific visa for foreigners who […]