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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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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. Here are two of the reasons we were not accepted: The market strategy is not clear. The market strategy made complete sense to me and my team members. Of course it made sense to us.

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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.

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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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Transformify Partners with Laboratoria to Empower Young Women and Girls in Latin America

Transformify

And they earn less in the labor market, despite studying more than their male counterparts. It will enable them to acquire the skills of high demand on the market.” In 2 years we have trained more than 400 students in Peru, Chile, and México. It is especially difficult for women living in poor rural areas.

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New Partner Joins #GoRemote - Britcham Chile

Transformify

We’re excited to welcome our newest partner, the British Chilean Chamber of Commerce (Britcham Chile), joining the supporters of the #GoRemote campaign. Britcham Chile specializes in providing market insight and assistance to UK companies wishing to enter the Chilean market.

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[INTERVIEW] Glen McKay, Newfoundland Business Leader, Co-Founder of Newfoundland Hard-Rok, Inc.

YoungUpstarts

Cornerstone continues to explore its Cascabel copper-gold discovery in Ecuador as well as other properties in Ecuador and Chile. Foster a team spirit working atmosphere and remunerate key staff above market. In 1997, Glen co-founded Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc., Most important are the people that you choose to be on your team.

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