Sites such as Pinterest (recently valued at $1.5B) and Fab (estimated valuation above $1B) that focus on delivering both utility and great user...
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Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Ranjith Kumaran, co-founder and CEO of loyalty software company PunchTab and former co-founder of file...
As we reported before, last Friday, Wayra accelerator initiative, selected the 10 startups that it will work with during the following 6 months in...
In my various capacities as a startup advisor and Director of the Founder Institute in Colombia, I’m continually analyzing new business...
Several days ago, I had the opportunity to meet two impressive professionals who don’t just talk about such things, but are building an incubator...
I just had a great conversation with Adeo Ressi, CEO of the Founder Institute, about the fact that after only one year we are expanding beyond Bogota...
Alejandro Lucero, CEO of MentorPick, believes there’s a lot yet to be done in order to make finding qualified experts in Latin America easy. ...
According to Forrester research, during the past 5 years, travel-planning enjoyment fell 6% and Google claims that people are spending, on average...
According to some studies, Colombian ecommerce has been growing by over 50%. Nevertheless, according to an earlier study conducted by VISA, local...
I first wrote about VivaReal two years ago in an article that was published in VentureBeat and the digital edition of the New York Times. Back then...
Any reporter or public relations (PR) professional in Latin America understand the value that his or her network of contacts has to their being able...
Several months ago, at South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive, the yearly startup and technology event held in Austin, Texas, I had the opportunity to...
As opposed to the US where a good percentage of the population is used to investing in the stock market, Latin Americans are only now experimenting...
When Scott Bird and Scott Thomson met on the high school baseball team in Rockville, Maryland, they hit it off immediately. The two Scotts as...
Companies such as Salesforce and SuccessFactors are well-known case studies of companies promoting a new model of software delivery called Software...
