Archive for February, 2014

  • February 26, 2014

    Sesión Informativa Founder Institute Bogota

    Adeo Ressi TropicalGringo

    Tengo noticias interesantes para contar el siguiente martes 4 de Marzo sobre el Founder Institute.  Espero que, si está leyendo esto, pueda acompañarnos allí.  También, es buen momento para hacer cualquier preguntas que pueda tener. Puede registrarse para la sesion del martes acá: fi.co/courses/7991

    Espero tener allí por lo menos un graduado del programa al igual que por lo menos un mentor.  No hay nada mejor que escuchar lo que tienen que decir estas personas ya que ofrecen una perspectiva mas objetiva y valiosa sobre el programa y el valor del mismo.Hace cuatro años que traje al Founder Institute a Colombia y al final de abril comenzaremos con el quinto grupo.

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  • February 20, 2014

    Será gran semestre del Founder Institute Bogotá

    Brian Reale Founder InstituteDespués de liderar cinco semestres del Founder Institute en Colombia, ya puedo ver que este abril comenzaremos un gran semestre del Founder Institute en Bogota.  La razón que digo esto es que anoche tuvimos un evento en las oficinas de Microsoft Colombia con una presentación contundente por parte de Brian Reale, CEO de ProcessMaker.  Brian ha construido un startup con mas ochenta empleados en Colombia y Bolivia con ventas de su producto de software en todo el mundo y nos compartió su trayectoria de ser empleado a ser emprendedor.

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  • February 19, 2014

    Silicon Valley Culture

    Nivi Angel.coI just got back from Silicon Valley where I spent more than a week.  I was able to take the ten startups that are going through the acceleration program that I am running in Bogota and show them around and introduce them to key players.  We had fireside chats with investors and entrepreneurs such as Nivi (co-founder of Angel List), Ranjith Kumaran (co-founder of YouSendIt and PunchTab) and William Hsu (CodeEval).  We also spoke with investors such as Mike Hennesey and Dan Bragiel. As usual, I was able to count on help from some great people including Jeannine Jacobson from the Founder Institute in Los Angeles and the above mentioned people in Silicon Valley in addition to a host of others that I’ll thank privately so as not to make them so public without their consent. :)

    We also visited successful companies such as Facebook, Google and Evernote to understand their innovation cultures and how the built these from their start as small startups  to big companies.  We were able to also meet with the CEO and co-founder of Xactly Corporation, Chris Cabrera, who spoke to us about the opportunities in creating SaaS companies.   During all of these visits, we heard about the innovation cultures ingrained in these startups as well as the founder vision behind each of these organizations.

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  • February 6, 2014

    The New Colombia

    New Colombia

    There’s a post I’ve wanted to write for some time (actually a lot of posts), but the day-to-day hustle has succeeded in keeping me from writing (how’s that for a lame excuse?).  It has to do with what I see happening in a number of Latin American countries (e.g., Brazil, Mexico, etc.), but have direct experience with here in Colombia. Basically, the Colombia I’m experiencing at this moment is quite different from the Colombia of only five years ago.  One of these differences, which is very trivial to some, is the fact that this past Sunday I had a plethora of choices of where to watch the Super Bowl compared to several years ago (that’s how justify attaching such a far out picture to this post).

    I recall the frustration I felt several years ago trying to find a place to watch the Super Bowl (the what?).  Nine out of ten people I would ask had no idea what this was.  Granted, this is quite an ethnocentric view of the world on my part given the comparative popularity of soccer and cricket in the world.  Nonetheless, it speaks to something that I’ve been noticing more and more: this and other countries like it are accelerating their connection to the world.

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