Out to transform business in Colombia
I’ve found that it pays to have lofty goals. When I first arrived to Colombia, I worked at a well-known technology multinational corporation and told my team that I wanted to build a world-class services organization. One way to measure ourselves was by the satisfaction of our user base. Four years later, we were named the top country by that metric in the whole world. Now, I’m at it again, seeing how ridiculously ambitious I can get with a new Lean Startup Enterprise initiative.
In a sense, I’m expanding the scope of what I do with the Founder Institute, which I’ve been running for four years in Colombia. While that incubator (I’m careful not to say accelerator as one commenter is sensitive to the use of this term :)) is focused on startups, the Lean Startup Enterprise initiative expands this scope and invites corporate employees to join the party.
We had a great Founder Institute Bogota pitch event last night. In attendance were Founder Institute mentors, Francisco Garcia, co-founder of 