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How Start-Up Chile Helps Entrepreneurs and Chile Alike

ReadWriteStart

The Start-Up Chile accelerator was arguably the spark that ignited Chile’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Chilean government, through the development agency CORFO, founded Start-Up Chile in 2010 as a way to bring in foreign entrepreneurs who would galvanize Chile’s transition into an economy built on technology and innovation.

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Teaching Entrepreneurship in “Chilecon Valley”

Steve Blank

Teaching in Chile. I’ve spent the last week in Santiago, a guest of Professor Cristóbal García at the Catholic University of Chile as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program. This week the class has been adopted in the Computer Science department of the Catholic University of Chile. Valaparaiso houses.

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

I’ve known Professor Cristobal Garcia since 2010 when he hosted my first visit to Catholic University in Santiago of Chile and to southern Patagonia. He presented to organizations in the Netherlands, Chile, Spain, the UK (Ministry of Defense and the BBC), and aerospace companies. Yet, everyone got the message pretty quickly.

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Entrepreneur Runs Coding Academy To Help Students Gain Real-world Software Development Skills

Hearpreneur

Marcelo Ricigliano is the co-founder of 4Geeks Academy , a Miami based coding academy with campuses in USA, Chile and Venezuela. We now have campuses in the US, Chile, and Venezuela, with more than 400 graduates and a job placement ratio of 90%. How did you come up with your business name? 4Geeks Academy is a combination of two things.

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Move Your Startup to Chile-con Valley, Get $40,000!

ReadWriteStart

Steve Davis packed his laptop and his Spanish phrasebook and moved to Chile. On arrival, a government program called Start-Up Chile handed him $40,000, no equity required. Davis and his partners, Amit Aharoni and Nicolas Meunier, were members of Start-Up Chile's freshman class, arriving in August 2010. What to do?

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Go Live With The Whales

YoungUpstarts

Another example, at the end of February 2010 while I was about to leave Chile an earthquake struck. Luckily Martin, our guide, and REI, the tour company, got us out of Chile and into Buenos Aires. This was no small feat given that all the other tourists trapped in Chile had the same idea. How about yours?

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FutureBrand 2010: Israel Up 11 Spots in Ranking As a Country Brand

VC Cafe

Israel moved in the right direction in 2010, climbing 11 spots to #30. Israel was also crowned as one of the ‘Rising Starts of 2010′ along with Chile, Argentina and Iceland. If you’re interested in the full study, you may download the full 2010 Country FutureBrand Index on this link.

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