As Start-Up Chile’s northern campaigner, Diego Alcaíno, has been living a literally non-stop agenda– visiting Universities like USC and CalTech, meeting with California based startups, and promoting Start-Up Chile to all those in the entrepreneurship/innovation field. The last three weeks have been especially busy and we were lucky to grab his notes from his Start-Up Chile California campaign.
It’s been an extremely dynamic month here in the Golden State with entrepreneurs from around the world emailing, calling and scheduling meetings with us… 24/7.
Diego Alcaíno Promoting Start-Up Chile at Singularity University in California
The last time we wrote was about 3 weeks ago and since then, the interest in Start-Up Chile has grown exponentially here in California, and throughout the globe.
The We Raised Million party, hosted by the startup Heyzap, kicked off these busy few weeks and provided us the exciting vision of how our own Start-Up Chile entrepreneurs will celebrate once their companies raise millions, sell billions, and go public! Thanks to Immad for the invitation. At the event we met Nick O’Neill, founder of socialtimes.com, the SF-based Betazeta site.
Later on, we visited Dogpatch Labs at Pier 38, one of the coolest incubators in the area that is, just as luck would have it, hosting the promising Chilean startup Zappedy. There we got to see how entrepreneurs worked. Let me tell you, Chile’s definitely got Cali beat.
While in San Fran, we visited USF, where Carlos and Mónica worked with us to reach out to entrepreneurial-spirited students. With fingers crossed, we’ll be able to integrate some new entrepreneurs from their world class Business Plan competition into Start-Up Chile.
Continuing on, the Founder Institute invited us to their August showcase at Microsoft during which Jason Calacanis gave a talk about the Angel Investor vs. Venture Capital debate. Thanks to Jason and our friends at Mahalo, we were able to arrange a great show with the burgeoning tech community down in Santa Monica.
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