By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Art: Our business accelerator is wrapped in the academic program. The people who participate in it are either spending three months in the program between the first and the second years of their MBA program, or they do it after they graduate with an MBA when they
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 Praveen Karoshi I am talking to Art Boni, director of the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship and professor of entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon was one of the pioneers in introducing entrepreneurship courses nearly 40 years ago, in 1972. According
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
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Kerry: The public funding that DreamIt receives is not contingent on how many of our entrepreneurs are successful. I think that is probably because our investors agree with us that this model of succeed fast or fail fast is valuable. They understand that some of the companies
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you engage with companies after they’ve completed the incubation program? Julia: Not as well as we should. This is a struggle that I think most accelerators have. Once you don’t see them quite as frequently, it’s harder to keep track.