Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. The largest company, the state-run Chilean National Copper Corp CODELCO, has $23 billion in sales. South American web commerce hub? Why will people from South America stream to Chile, besides its magnificent geography? Venture Capital. MORE >>

Three years later, however, sales were flat. Its "audience platform" allows the customer to upload first-party data—CRM details, point-of-sale information, purchase history, catalog subscriptions—and then match it with demographic and psychographic data, such as income and hobbies, to create anonymous audience profiles. MORE >>

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). This is part of my series on  what makes an entrepreneur successful.  And cheap. MORE >>

For our subsidiary, in one of the key countries of South America, these internal regulations dramatically complicated the task of obtaining various permissions from local authorities. These efforts proved to be a major distraction from our main objective, namely sales and service of our high tech products. Gemassmer. MORE >>

Four years later CD Baby was doing really well, with a few million dollars in sales and probably half a million dollars in net profits. worked in a dive shop, backpacked around South America… I did lots of things that seemed aimless and not remunerative. Why get input from such a wide range of individuals? in the mid-80s. MORE >>