All posts tagged mobile

  • February 28, 2015

    Healthcare startup 1DOC3 keeps growing.

    1Doc3

    As I’ve stated in the past, one of the most rewarding things that I do is advise startups. I truly enjoy working with strong founders and, though, I’m called an advisor, I see myself more as an admirer and fanboy of these entrepreneurs.  Fortunately, I can say that all of the companies that I advise are going strong and most of these have had some great news to report recently (I need to write a post about this).  Today, I’m proud to say that I am now advising another company called 1Doc3, which currently offers a health Q&A site for hundreds of thousands (and growing) of Spanish speakers from all walks of life.

    I met the founders during my mentoring stints at the local Wayra accelerator during the past year.  I met several impressive founders and startups from Wayra’s last batch, but there was something extra that I felt about the 1Doc3 founders and the opportunity they were pursuing.  One of the things that I really like about identifying and working with early stage companies is how hard it is to spot future success stories. Time will tell whether I’m any good at this, but, even though there were, apparently, “sexier” startups both at Wayra and elsewhere, this company and it’s founders stood out in my mind.

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  • September 9, 2010

    Software Development Company Dream Team Minus One CTO

    dreamteamI just got back from a great meeting with a fellow entrepreneur. He’s been working on building a dream team of partners to launch a top notch software development firm focused on cutting edge development that includes gaming, social networks and mobile (each project needs to include one or more of these).  He has already built and sold a software development firm and has since learned a lot more do’s and don’ts and we will be launching in a couple of months.

    We already have a team of more than ten engineers assembled and are close to negotiating a seed investment to get off to a running start.  One of my jobs is to find interesting projects in the states and/or Europe.  I will be reaching out to my contacts to find these.  Many operations down here focus on small traditional projects in the local market, but we are focused on working on top tier projects with innovative companies (large and small).

    The initial software development center will be based here in Colombia with the possibility of setting up additional centers in the most appropriate places (e.g., Asia, eastern Europe, etc.).  We have some pretty impressive technical people (including architects).  Nevertheless, I mentioned that we should look for a superstar CTO anywhere in the world and periodically fly that person down here to guide the technical team and develop the company vision.  My friend was surprised by the suggestion, but he immediately saw the logic.

    Thus, if you are superstar CTO material or know someone who is, please contact me. This position is for you if you’re into leading a team of eager learners and workers down here in Bogota, Colombia and are interested in fun international travel (reach out to anyone at the local embassy and they’ll tell you how much fun Colombia is – really, beyond what you’d expect).  Obviously, the idea is for our new CTO to be a partner in the business and this would include becoming vested in the company.

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