Trending Now: Old News is Dead
Today’s journalists in Silicon Valley are also techies and entrepreneurs On a gloriously sunny and mild, February afternoon at Stanford University, leaders in journalism, app design, and investing gathered to usher in a dawning era of media, while somewhere else a bell was tolling for the end of the news business as we know it. The panelists at the Stanford GSB’s conference on the Future of Media were the faces of a fractured industry attempting to reinvent itself...
read moreFrance Inaugurates Its First TR35 Awards Competition
November 2012 marked the official launch of the TR35 France Awards, now called MIT’s Innovators Under 35 Awards, an annual prize organized in countries all over the world by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Opinno. The award acknowledges the achievements of up-and-coming entrepreneurs whose projects have the potential to change the trajectory of business, technology, and society. It has been a months-long process of networking with leading...
read moreFailure Culture in Start-ups
By Celeste North (@celestenorth) of emprende.la In the technological entrepreneurial culture, it is well known that most start-ups fail. The number is very high: 3 in every 4. The reasons can vary from running out of funding or losing a founder, to determining there isn’t a big enough market for your product or service. Either way, failing in Silicon Valley is one of the least terrible things that can happen to you. When we start a company, fear of failing can be...
read moreLabco: Innovation in Prenatal Biomedicine
As I introduced on my last post, our most recent commercial launch is a blood test for non-invasive prenatal testing, a test that can assess risk for Down Syndrome or trisomies 18 and 13 with no risk for the mother or baby. This opens a new window to prenatal testing, and represents probably the biggest advance in obstetrics in the history of medicine. But this is not intended to be a scientific publication, or at least not what I should be writing on. And I...
read moreThe Founder Institute Expands To Colombia
According to founder Adeo Ressi, The Founder Institute is the largest accelerator in the world. In addition to its locations in the US, the organization has expanded its footprint abroad, and today over 20 percent of Founder Institute graduates are international. Two years ago Adeo Ressi decided to expand into Latin America and considered multiple countries, including Brazil and Argentina. However, despite these larger and more mature markets, it was Alan Colmenares, on...
read moreMedellin, The City with ESPACIO
Translated by Conrad Egusa Medellín – the name itself conjures up a sense of story across the world. It is no secret that not only ago, Medellin was arguably the most dangerous city on the planet. The city was home to some of the largest illegal organizations the world has ever seen. However, the strength of good governance and the strong will of the people have changed the city. Today, Medellin has positioned itself as a center of innovation. Most recently,...
read moreFinding talent, the new start-up challenge
By Celeste North (@celestenorth) of emprende.la The amazing growth of Start-ups emerging in Latin America has given way to new challenges to overcome. Finding the right people to work with is most definitely one of the most common ones, a challenge that Silicon Valley has faced for several years. One of the most valuable things of Silicon Valley is that it is crowded with entrepreneurs, designers and developers eager to start their own projects or join an interesting...
read moreYour New Home Awaits
Opinno’s Madrid office is expanding beyond the fifth floor of Gran Vía 16. Three stories up from one of Madrid’s most lively commercial boulevards, Opinno has opened a co-working space and an events hall, which hosts individual entrepreneurs as well as organizations like change.org and Multivent. The move signifies the company’s continued support for Madrid’s community of innovators and its efforts to facilitate the exchange of ideas among the members of the...
read moreGlobal Entrepreneurship Week strikes Mexico
By Celeste North (@celestenorth) of emprende.la As many of you know, Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) was from the 12th to the 18th of November and every year it is celebrated around the world with activities aiming to foster the entrepreneurship culture. Mexico wasn’t the exception, and this year there were several activities happening around the country. Startup Weekend, in particular, has been very popular this year. With the opening of its regional offices,...
read moreDevelopers propel ICT among LATAM farmers
Things can always go a step further, and the Argentineans at the NGO Cultural Association for Integral Development (ACDI by its Spanish initials), can surely attest to that. In August of 2003, and with funding from the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), the NGO decided to promote traceability among small farmers to facilitate their entry into the export value chain. Two years later, after an investment of 1 million USD and the work of 40 developers, they realized that...
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