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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. They raised $1.6

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Why Investors are Loving Austin as an Innovation Hub!

Austin Startup

To give a high-level snapshot of the activity in just the investment community alone this past June, ATX Venture Partners closed a $150M fund, 8VC filed with the SEC regarding plans to raise an $880M fund and Mainsail Partners, a growth equity fund based in San Francisco, is planning to open an office in Austin this September ( Source: AustinInno ).

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Startup founders: Here’s why vesting is your best friend

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Güimar Vaca Sittic , a two time Internet entrepreneur currently working at Quasar Ventures based in Buenos Aires, and a Startup Chile Judge. You have an awesome idea and a great co-founder with whom you want to work. Being an entrepreneur is all about enthusiasm and energy. An example.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. equity debate. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG. Dying at 70? Who doesn't?

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Bless you, chile! Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Insightful.