By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Are there any other interesting entrepreneurs in your program? Jean: There’s H2020 created by Erika Anderson, who is an alumna of Singularity University in Moffett Field, California. [They collect data using their unique mobile phone-based survey. H2020’s Water Poverty Initiative seeks to “improve public knowledge about
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What entrepreneurs could expect to spend on living expenses while they stay in Chile? Jean: That would depend on how you want to live. There’s an entrepreneur who lives in a normal apartment. He has a swimming pool on the top floor of the building. He’s
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any entrepreneurs from the U.S.? Jean: We have people from Wisconsin, California, and Utah. We’re trying to attract the best entrepreneurs from around the world. We’re not only looking for high-tech entrepreneurs, we’re looking for any entrepreneur who can see an opportunity here
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jean: We want the founders to start their businesses here, and then go global. There are some companies that want to send in a project manager. Other teams wanted to open branches in Chile. There’s another agency here in Chile that supports that.
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Jean Boudeguer, executive director of Start-Up Chile, which is a Chilean government program that seeks to attract foreign, high-potential entrepreneurs to come to Chile to bootstrap their businesses. The mission of the new government and the primary focus of the Ministry of Economy