Chile Digital Venture Capital Forum is still accepting applications from companies that are READY to raise their first or second round of Series A funding.
Companies who submit an application to the Venture Capital Forum prior to the April 19, 2013 deadline will also receive, 4 complimentary admission passes to the Latin American Chile Digital Expo with access to over 30 lectures in e-commerce, digital marketing and entrepreneurship. Read More →
We all want to learn something new, don’t we? So why not learn from the best?
My mom and I have a deal: She teaches me how to cook the most delicious meals of all, and in return I teach her how to use the computer and create stunning PowerPoint presentations. This way, both of us learns from the other and teaches the things he can do best. But there is a limit of what my mom and I can teach each other. Neither of us knows how to speak Chinese, for example. But there are millions of people that can, the question is: How do you find them?
For all Spanish speakers, there is Floqq, an online platform that offers a great variety of educational courses in the form of high quality videos for anyone who wants to perfect or improve any professional or personal skill via the internet. The platform launched in Latin America on March 19th offers more than 600 courses, which have a price of US$10-20, to people from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
Marcelo Guital will kick off the First Tuesday Bootcamp as a keynote speaker. Guital, a serial entrepreneur and accomplished businessman has long been known in Latin America’s circles of innovation. He founded Aguas Benedictino, and eventually had a successful exit, selling it to Coca Cola.
He then founded Guital & Partners, which was the first entrepreneurship and innovation venture related to branding Chile. To date he has generated multi-millions of dollars in new business for innovative ventures in Chile in all stages of development.
So Marcelo and First Tuesday wants to know what’s your genius business idea??? If you have a cool idea, innovative project or incredible business and need help with financing and business development, First Tuesday (Chile) would love to see you at their upcoming bootcamp.
Held annually at Haas School of Business since 2010, the Latin American Business Conference is a full-day event focused on Latin America, featuring highly-respected business and political leaders who share their experiences and insights. The Latin American and Hispanic Business Association (LAHBA) organizes this conference every year developing a platform to enhance discussions about opportunities in the region. (at left: Gonzalo Miranda, Austral Capital Partners, Chile)
This year the Conference will have a clear focus on investments and entrepreneurship. Read More →
Hackers and Founders Santiago Chile is back! The popular meetup that originally started in Palo Alto, CA, USA is now available for everyone in the tech community of Santiago, Chile.
The goal of the meetup is to build a network of technical co-founders that support each other and share ways to hack the system. Read More →
The Mindscore App, which was recently endorsed by Dream Theater’s keyboard player, Jordan Rudess, just released its 2.0 version, opening a whole new world of possibilities to its users and becoming, another essential tool for the creative process and the band’s self-management.
Since we first covered this cool and creative music startup about one year ago here on AndesBeat.com, we are proud to report they are enjoying slow and steady grow, with more than 12,000 downloads of the Mindscore app to date. And even better news, the award-winning app MindScore has recently launched their second version bringing awesome new features including a virtual rehearsal room.
“I like how Mindscore feels, it’s very friendly.”
- Jordan Rudess, Dream Theater’s Keyboard Player
Update 9 April 2013: PayPal Latin America and Multicaja, Chile will allow 50,000+ merchants in Chile, especially SMBs – that accept international payments via PayPal to withdraw their funds directly into their local bank accounts. The program called ‘Retiros Multicaja’, opens up PayPal international marketplace to Chilean e-tailers and e-commerce centric SMB’s, accessibility to 123 million potential consumers in 190 countries.
4 April 2013: Any foreign company or startup that has been trying do business in Chile would probably agree that one of the major headaches is figuring out how you are going to be able to receive payments (especially online).
While the news has not been officially announced, here’s hoping that Friday’s major announcement (here in Santiago, Chile) featuring Latin America PayPal, will set up the framework regarding simplifying online payments in Chile (and then some)!
Just in….
Chilean startup Klooff has been accepted to Tech Stars NYC 2013 Class. And to my knowledge they may be the first Chilean firm, founded by Chileans, that were accepted into the program. Read More →
Earlier this week PlayStation’s online network went live in Chile and Argentina as they continue their aggressive expansion in Latin America. Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela are the other countries currently in the roadmap of countries in the region where they will work to grow their brand and reach. Read More →
“Simplify your life” could be the mantra for the winners of the Open Start Up competition of UDD Ventures. More than 200 projects applied, and in the end an evaluation committee chose four winners from the last 9 pre-selected teams.
Analyzing the winning companies, you clearly see the trends of today’s Startup scene: Simplify processes within the companies and improve communication and transparency. Social networks and mobile apps can be found in all kinds of areas, some of them more, some of them less useful (but we won’t mention any names ;-)) Read More →
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