Companies were observed against local investors and Internet companies in Silicon Valley. Colombia Moda
Source: nation (p. 30) 07/05/2011 Local businesses
were observed against investors and Internet companies in Silicon Valley.
In just over three minutes, seven local digital technology companies yesterday had the opportunity to present their projects to Geeks on a Plane, a group of 40 investors and Internet companies originating in Silicon Valley, an area in Northern California, which is considered the mecca of technology in the United States.
The meeting, organized by the Ministry of Economic Development of the city, which took place at the Institute Felix Bernasconi, the Technology Park District named Patricia, is part of the Latin American tour that included Chile and Brazil, organized by Wenceslao Casares, Argentine Patagon web site operator, who then sold $ 750 million, along with Dave McClure, one of the most prominent and respected technology investors in the United States.
Evan Henshaw, a 34-year-old Californian is one of the Geeks on a Plane, undertook to explain to the nation that is this group.
"We are technical people from start-ups [companies seeking new business models] and investors from Silicon Valley who travel to other countries to find companies that engage in similar things about other technologies and know what is happening beyond Silicon Valley, "he said. is that, as recognized by those who reside there, this area of \u200b\u200bCalifornia is a big bubble that sometimes, it is disconnected from some parts of the world.
of black shirt, jeans and backpack shoulder, Henshaw, who worked at Yahoo and was one of the brains of Twitter, noted that Silicon Valley is usually to be, first, an entrepreneur, and has a business and looking to invest in others. Something he calls " ecosystem. "
That idea, which takes at least a hundred years of life in northern California, is that attempts to mobilize in the emerging Patricios Park Technology District. And Augusto Chesini is one of the local presenters decided to move his video game company in the area. "At the end of last year, and we moved to the district. It was a business decision and family. Is that the benefit in reducing the gross income is enough and also have contact with other businesses," said the young man 29.
Briefly, Chesini told La Nacion the dynamics of many firms now develop content on the Web: "The life cycle of these companies is usually three or four years time when you believe it, you see grow and then sell it. "
Meanwhile, Henshaw said the vast majority of companies have landed yesterday in Buenos Aires are digital, but there are also investors in biotechnology or alternative energy development. Consulted by the name of the group said: "It is that we are geeks! When we were with Pinera in Chile, the first thing I wanted to ask was what was the connection for the W i-Fi."
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