get funded
Real world knowledge to help you succeed as an entrepreneur in Latam.
After finding product market fit, building the right team is probably the most important job a founder has. But recruiting is difficult for the vast majority of startups and most early stage companies don’t have the resources to invest...
Apologies for the poor audio quality. Hopefully its still useful. Here’s the show notes:
Las startups latinoamericanas están creciendo rápido. Al igual que el ecosistema de venture capital.
En febrero de 2020, Bessemer escribió sobre el auge de los mercados B2B o mercados verticales (B2B or vertical marketplaces) y escribió la guía para identificarlos y ayudar a construirlos en los Estados Unidos. Mientras tanto, en Latinoamér
The best entrepreneurs send investor updates religiously. Whether it's monthly or quarterly, the best founders pick a cadence and stick to it. In good times and in bad. They don’t hide anything.
I constantly ask myself: why are Latin American companies buying offline, accepting terrible customer experience, when they wouldn’t stand for it in their day to day lives? If I zoom out 10-20 years, what will B2B commerce look like?
We use Magma Memos to source and review more than 1000 startups per year. We give personalized feedback to all of them.
This is the third post in a series about the Magma Memo, our tool we use to invest in the best founders in Latin America. You can read the original Omni pre-seed Magma Memo in parts 1 and 2.
I wrote a case study about a small ecommerce test that my friends and I ran for a few years in Chile. This post is most applicable to smaller countries like Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador and Peru, but also has some good information for Mexico
As startups and tech investing has gone mainstream with things like AngelList, Shark Tank, The Social Network, the proliferation of accelerators and incubators, and the celebritization of founders and VCs
I get multiple emails per month from US and European tech workers who are interested in moving to Chile and want to know what the tech job market looks like. These emails have picked up in frequency both as the Chilean tech ecosystem
