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Tags: Chile, Education, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital
By Steve Blank, Professor of Entrepreneurship, U.C. Berkeley / Stanford University
Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.
I spent two weeks of December 2010 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. Read more
Tags: Entrepreneurs, IT/Software, Retail, Uruguay, Venture Capital
Tags: Entrepreneurs, Exits, Venture Capital
By Patrick McGinnis
Not long ago, I caught up with a friend who is a private equity investor focused on Latin America. We chatted about the changes in the Latin investment climate over the last ten years and I commented that I still view early stage investing as one of the most compelling and untapped opportunities in the region. Read more
Tags: Chile, Entrepreneurs, LAVCA
January 27, 2011 – On Jan. 11, the Chilean government officially launched a program called Start-Up Chile, which seeks to strengthen the country’s technology sector by offering entrepreneurs $40,000, a visa and office space to develop their businesses in Santiago for a six-month period. The government says the initiative differs markedly from other top-down efforts to build tech-clusters, whereby states sponsor research universities and tech parks in an effort to attract companies and venture capital.
Will the program’s efforts to ‘import’ tech entrepreneurs be successful? What is the state of tech entrepreneurship in Chile and the rest of Latin America? What initiatives should governments in the region undertake to kick start the tech industry’s development? Is there a danger that too much public money put into developing a technology industry is wasted?
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(c) 2010 Latin American Venture Capital Association (LAVCA).
