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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

ReadWriteStart

The Latin American startup scene is attracting more and more attention and investments. Here’s a look at what’s fueling startup investments in Colombia. Colombia is not new to the startup scene , but it is beginning to garner increased attention from foreign VCs. A solid foundation of government support.

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Updating Your Seed Investors – Board Deck & Update Email Templates

View from Seed

Today I’m excited to announce the relaunch of our most popular resource ever: board meeting deck templates for seed-stage startups, now in conjunction with an investor update email template. Download Investor Update Email Template. Investor Update Email Template and How & When to Use It.

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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

At its core, this issue points to the lack of understanding about the importance of post-money valuation by both entrepreneurs and investors. There is nothing wrong with using a SAFE or a convertible note in a startup if you know its implications. Yes, and it’s a lot simpler than making your startup grow into a successful company.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. creating a model for how other cities can do it.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

And they should be; the feeding frenzy in the innovation economy is in some cases because startups are eating the lunch of more established companies. Corporate venture groups are making it easier for startups to access this talent by setting up learning and co-working spaces on their premises. Some corporate funds now lead rounds.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Why I Don’t Like Board Observers

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. I wrote recently about the role of Advisory Boards in startups , which I expected to be a bit controversial. Just to baseline for newer entrepreneurs – there are three types of people you may see involved with a startup that have the title “board&# attached to them.