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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. 4Geeks Academy students gain real-world software development skills that traditional education left behind but are required to meet the demands of our digital economy. It’s a project “For” “Geeks.”.

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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

In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.) 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. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems.

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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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[Review] The $100 Startup

YoungUpstarts

Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”. We should also provide emotional benefits instead of just physical features and focus on what we can add or take away to improve people’s lives. Nuts and Bolts.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

In the past year alone, we’ve taught over 250 teams, over 1,000 entrepreneurs and their mentors in dozens of countries how to create scalable startups in domains from software and hardware to healthcare and energy. I often hear the concern that the Lean LaunchPad only works for software. We’ve gone global as well.

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Why Investors are Loving Austin as an Innovation Hub!

Austin Startup

Ruben relocated to Austin from Chile in early 2020, prior to the start of COVID, after receiving the opportunity to join the International Accelerator with Beereaders. Texas was a top target for the company with the large Spanish speaking population and the growing startup ecosystem.

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