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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. Prior to 4Geeks Academy, Ricigliano was the CEO for Vikua, a Smart City Startup that was named as one of the 30 most promising tech Companies in Latin America by Forbes.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.

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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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Isidoro Quiroga: “South America’s Warren Buffet” Mogul Makes Next Move

The Startup Magazine

Chilean billionaire and entrepreneur Isidoro Quiroga has been called South America’s Warren Buffet for his near-perfect investment portfolio and his ability to transform businesses from small firms to global leaders. Quiroga has invested in companies in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia.

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Common Pitch Chile

David Cohen

I’m really looking forward to my upcoming trip to Santiago, Chile where I’ll be speaking about startup communities at Common Pitch Chile along with some incredible people including Al Gore , who is the keynote speaker. I’m very excited to have lunch with him and learn all about the Internet!).

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Chile’s pollution problems has led to green startups

The Next Web

Santiago de Chile is an understatedly cool city. This is especially true of its tech, an industry where Santiago’s innovations aren’t just making waves in South America, but are attracting some serious global attention. And the best thing about Santiago’s tech?

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

Everybody agrees that, without meaningful job growth, America will not emerge from its current deep economic funk. Conclusion: If we don’t fix the IPO problem in America, we will not fix the job problem in America. The fact that Singapore, Brazil, India, China, Chile, the U.K.,