All posts tagged comparamejor

  • January 6, 2015

    $3M invested in Founder Institute Colombia Graduates!

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    The Founder Institute continues to grow globally.  It’s amazing to realize that I’m going on my fifth year as Director of the Founder Institute (FI) in Colombia.  In 2011, there were relatively few cities with a Founder Institute chapter and I was really determined to make sure that Colombia be the first Latin American country to have one.  By then, I had sat with a lot of Colombian entrepreneurs and knew that they needed help from the moment of conception.  Well that dream was realized and, with the amazing help of Adeo Ressi, the incubator’s founder, graduates of the program in Colombia have already received over US $2M in funding. This is unheard of for any startup accelerator or incubator in this country.

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  • May 1, 2014

    No le cuenten a nadie

    Founder Institute Bogota 2014

    Escogí este titulo (“No le cuenten a nadie”) para este post como un criticismo a mi mismo.  Como el Director del Founder Institute Colombia por cuatro años, es mi responsabilidad comunicar mejor los logros de esta institución y su envidiable red de mentores en Colombia.  Sin embargo, cada vez que escucho conversaciones sobre las aceleradoras de startups en Colombia, por alguna razón, no se menciona la que, junto con Wayra, lleva cuatro años en el pais y la que conecta a los emprendedores con mentores de Colombia y de Silicon Valley: el Founder Institute Colombia.

    FI BogotaAnoche lanzamos (ver foto principal é izquierda) la quinta promoción del Founder Institute, aceleradora “pre-idea” en Colombia. Este año la mayoría del programa está financiada por los mismos emprendedores (una especie de crowdsourcing funcionando desde hace cuatro años en Colombia) ya que cada uno paga un “course fee” para inscribirse al programa.  Antes de esto, cada emprendedor ha tomado un examen psicotécnico para medir su aptitud para crear un startup de alto impacto y solo son aceptados los que, según dicho examen, poseen esta aptitud.

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  • November 14, 2013

    The impact of mission-driven organizations on emerging markets

    Adeo Ressi New York TimesToday, New York Times subscribers are reading the story on Adeo Ressi and the incubator he created: The Founder Institute.  In the article, when asked why he launches also in countries such as Colombia that are nontraditional entrepreneurial environments, he responds that he has created a mission-driven organization with the objective of helping the two percent of the population with “entrepreneurial genes” launch meaningful and enduring technology companies.

    As I’ve written before, it’s been quite a rewarding ride to have been able to work with Adeo and the Founder Institute for these past three years and to be able to count on his support while running the program here in Colombia.  At one of the Founder Institute Director meetings that Adeo ran in Silicon Valley, he asked all of us, among other things, about the value of FI in each country.  In my case, I said that I feel that the value of something like the Founder Institute could be even greater in an emerging market such as Colombia, because the size of the startup industry is so small and the know-how is extremely sparse.

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