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Green Chile Burgers: A Recipe For Success

YoungUpstarts

I have heard of a good burger place with green Chile burgers but not I’m sure where it is”, Denise said. We’re not sure what a green Chile burger is and all agree to go find one. Burger Boy indeed has a green Chile burger. Have a product that people want – green Chile burgers. We begin our journey back to Albuquerque.

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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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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

To give you a practical example, I’d like to analyze the reasons why my startup was rejected from participating in Start-Up Chile ’s Generation 17. From our research we knew Start-Up Chile was keen to B2B startups, so we didn’t want to dismiss this business model and just focus on our B2C business model. After you are accepted.

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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? Discuss.

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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.