Talk with social entrepreneurs at UdeSA
At the end of last week I gave a talk to social entrepreneurs who are part of the Youth Venture program from Ashoka, organized by the Center for Social Innovation at the University of San Andres. In addition to the fact that it was nice for me to return to UdeSA after so many years, it filled me with excitement to see so many of these youngsters so devoted to launch their social projects.
BizSpark, a nice hand by Microsoft for tech startups
Today I learned via Fabian Baptista that Microsoft launched a program called BizSpark to help new software development companies around the world.
As part of this program, they give you all development tools, platforms, tools for servers and technical support at no cost.
Election Day - Uncensored
In this historic Election day, my friend Enrique sent me a video that I found really interesting and wanted to share with you. And soon after I published the post, Martina sent me another version, this time “uncensored” so ypou will also find it below. And for more reader feedback, you may want to see the Spanish post on the winners of my latest contests, with the “acceptance speech sent by Fede Munichor!).
The fact that voting is not mandatory in the US gives place to interesting dinamics. I always wondered what would happen if in our countries voting was optional. I tend to think that, if even Americans have to be called upon to vote, that here the only people that would vote are those who get some dirty money from politicians to do so.
Anyway, in case you are not interested in all these stuff, you will at least enjoy seeing, among others, Scarlett Johanson and Cameron Diaz or Di Caprio and Tom Cruise (according to your preferences).
My favorites…? Borat and Jason Lee. And Jennifer Aniston… but she appears so little!
On Music and Life
While I hear little classical music in my post monthly on music this month I want to tell two stories beautiful and interesting in this regard.
Great to Good?
A few weeks ago I was at a meeting of the Advisory Council of Prosperar, the National Investment Agency of Argentina. There, Alec Oxenford mentioned something that truly concerns me: He said that in a speech a few days ago he asked the audience who was their most admired businessperson. And everyone in the audience looked at him as if he was crazy. And that, after thinking for while, the only answer they could think of was Marcelo Tinelli.
You may like better Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. Larry Ellison or Jack Welch. Sergey Brin and Larry Page or Jerry Yang and David Filo. But what there is no doubt about is that in cultures such as the U.S., among the most admired people there are many entrepreneurs. In Argentina being a businessman is a stigma.
A fake slew of visits
Let’s see if any of my fellow readers who are more experienced bloggers can help me with this. Last Tuesday the blog had almost three times the normal number of visits. I was totally confused in trying to figure out what could have generated such a peak of traffic.
How Venture Capital in Latin America DOESN’T work
Perhaps the most shocking thing of knowing how Venture Capital in Silicon Valley works is to see the huge contrast with what happens in Latin America.
I am a friend of several of the people who lead or work at the main funds in the region. But back from my trip I could not help but feel disgust for how they carry out their role as VCs .
What is the problem? The problem is that Venture Capital is essentially about risk. All the VCs we met during the trip made that very clear. And here, nobody wants to take risks .
E-commerce day
Last week I was invited to speak at the E-Commerce Day. There, I made a presentation and received a award from CACE for “my support to the development of the Digital Economy”. It was a great honor to receive it together with heavyweights such as Alec Oxenford , Esteban Brenman, Facundo Garretón and Santiago Pinto.
How Venture Capital in Silicon Valley works
What impressed me the most in this trip was to find out how the Venture Capital funds in Silicon Valley work. The contrast with what we entrepreneurs in Latin America are used to is gigantic.
Let’s see the main aspects:
Silicon Valley 101
Silicon Valley is an incredible place. In this post I will tell a bit what it is like for those who, like me until last week, have never been there or read much about it. Experts can stop here.
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Riesgo & Risk & Reward is Santiago Bilinkis' blog. Santiago is a serial entrepreneur, who created this blog to ignite a discussion and share his experiences, thoughts and anecdotes.
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