Meetup in Concepción: Environmentally Friendly Startups
Cristian Palacios, the Mexican entrepreneur and CEO of the company Aventones, will be the speaker for the next meetup in Concepción related to “Environmentally Friendly Startups” that is being organized along with InnovaChile Bío Bío. Aventones is in Chile thanks to Start-Up Chile and essentially offers a full service that facilitates and promotes carpooling. They have a system online where people from the same organization can make agreements about arranging rides together.
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Cristina Palacios, emprendedora Mexicana y CEO de la compañía Aventones será expositora del Meet Up “Emprendimientos amigables con el medio ambiente” que estamos organizando junto a Innova Bio Bio. Aventones esta en nuestro país gracias al apoyo del programa Start Up Chile y consiste en brindar un servicio integral que facilita y promueve la cultura de compartir el automóvil , ofreciendo un sistema en linea con el cual las personas que pertenecen a una misma organizacion se ponen de acuerdo.
What you need to know:
Date: Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Pub–Restorant Santos, Bahamondes 49, Pedro de Valdivia, Concepción
RSVP to: http://www.meetup.com/AtreveteHOY-Biobio/events/50742382/
Meetups Arrive to Stay in Chile’s ‘Región de los Lagos’
With the support of Faro Global‘s CEO, Roberto Pérez, and Corfo’s regional office in Puerto Montt, Start-Up Chile meetups will now be a permanent installment in the local entrepreneurial event circuit. Every month, program participants will travel South to speak about the challenges and rewards of bootstrapping their startups and to network with Chile’s southern-based entrepreneurs.
As a program, Start-Up Chile has been organizing meetups for over a year with the objective of connecting our participants with the local community through networking. Originally, the idea of collective meetups was born in the USA after September 11th, when a young entrepreneur, Scott Heiferman, built the meetup.com platform.
In 2012 we are looking forward to organizing more meetups from Chile’s North to South and we want to invite everyone who is interested in participating to join our network (www.meetup.com/startupchile) and become part of the high potential entrepreneurship community.
The monthly meetups that will take place in Puerto Varas are as follows:
1. Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Presenter: Gabriela Mejia
Startup: Escapeswithyou.com
Industry: Tourism
2. Thursday March 8th, 2012
Presenter: Ben Kaplan
Startup: Learndipity
Industry: Education and Communication
3. Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Presenter: Rebeca West
Startup: PorMano
Industry: Tourism/Artisan Goods
4. Thursday April 12th, 2012
Presenter: Nisar Shaik
Startup: AlcazarSolar
Industry: Energy
Meetup w/ The Founder of Groupon LatAm
Join us in this meetup with Oskar Hjertonsson, the Founder of Groupon Latinamerica and a investor who will tell us his story.
Bio
- 31 years old, Swedish.
- Studied Civil Engineering
- First Company created in Chile by him in 2007: Needish (He struggled to bring Needish to the marketplace– it has millions of users, but with out a business model).
- Launched ClanDescuento, a clone of Groupon, in March 2010 and soldl that company to Groupon in June 2010.
-Today he is a angel investor in five companies, most of them located in the US.
What you need to know:
Date: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Casa Lastarria, Lastarria 70, Santiago Centro
RSVP to: http://www.meetup.com/startupchile/events/50923822/
Meetup: Startups that Impact Education
Together with Innova Bio Bio and Atrévete Hoy, we are organizing another meetup with the SUP entrepreneur Patrick Kedziora of Boilingice (empowers individuals to quickly and easily create (and take) an eLesson to instruct their peers, colleagues, employees or students and share it through social media). Come and join us in Concepción!
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Start Up Chile e Innova Bio Bio, junto a Atrévete Hoy, estamos organizando un nuevo Meet Up en donde el emprendedor Patrick Kedziora, fundador de Boilingice (“Nosotros le devolvemos el tiempo para enseñar y gestionar, ofreciéndoles una aplicación de fácil uso para teléfonos móviles, la cual permite crear y tomar pequeñas, de 3 a 5 minutos, lecciones”) dará a conocer los desafío y oportunidades de ser emprendedor.
Invita: Innova Bio Bio – Apoya: Start Up Chile - Organiza: AtréveteHOY!
Media Partner: Radio Florencia: 100.3FM – Revista Arriesgo
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What you need to know:
Date: Thursday, Feb. 9th, 2012
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Pub-Restorant Santos, Bahamondes 49, Concepción
RSVP to: http://www.meetup.com/startupchile/events/50724772/
Meetup: How to Become a Media Superstar
Would you like to drive millions of users to your product or service by harnessing the power of free mass media coverage? Our presenter, Ben Kaplan, has been featured on the world’s most popular TV and radio shows, as well as in the world’s leading newspapers and magazines. In this presentation, he’ll show you how a little creativity, strategic positioning, and know-how can turn you and your business into a media superstar that generates millions of dollars worth of publicity at minimal cost to your company.
Some of the topics that Ben will cover in his presentation include: * How to best pitch TV producers, radio hosts, newspaper reporters, and magazine editors * How to get more online and social media coverage * How to use seasonal “news pegs” to make your company more “newsworthy” * How to add “buzz” to your interviews by using hot-button keywords and phrases.
ABOUT BEN KAPLAN
Ben Kaplan is no stranger to the largest media outlets in the world: He has been featured on more than 2,000 TV and radio programs, including interviews on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, Nightline, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, Fox News, NPR, and the BBC. Ben has also written columns for leading global publications such as The New York Times, Time, and U.S. News & World Report. In addition to his role as a media personality, Ben has served as a media consultant, media trainer, and paid spokesperson for some of the largest companies in the world including Citibank, Coca-Cola, American Express, Sallie Mae, and Discover Card.
As the founder of a boutique public relations firm in the U.S., he has scheduled media tours for a wide variety of global financial services, consumer products, and education-related companies. Ben has also worked on the other side of the media industry as a syndicated newspaper columnist, radio commentator, and best-selling author. Known as “America’s Scholarship Coach,” his book, ‘How to Go to College Almost for Free’ (HarperCollins Publishers) is the best-selling book in the genre with half a million copies in print. Over the past decade, he has saved tens of thousands of families half a billion dollars in college costs.
What you need to know:
Date: Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Casa Lastarria, Lastarria 70, Santiago
RSVP to: http://www.meetup.com/startupchile/events/49890432/
Meetup: AI/Robots/Data mining/Hackerspaces
One of the newest meetup series to arrive to Santiago is brought to you by the team behind StrongSteam.com, a second generation participant from the UK.
They are organizing a pub meetup for people who are interested in:
- Artificial Intelligence and data mining,
- Robots, and
- Hackerspaces (for people who like building electronic stuff).
Ian, one of the organizers says, “the meetup will be very relaxed, if you’ve just got a passing interest or you’re a life-long enthusiast then you’re absolutely welcome.” Confirmed participants include Junar, howsociable.com, backyardbrains.com, loogla.com, credii.com, Sqmos.com, veryseriousgames.com, and others.
What you need to know:
Date: Thursday, February 2nd
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Casa Lastarria, Lastarria 70, Santiago
Puerto Varas Meetup: Despega Sur
Jacklyn Giron and Chris Lukic, the Brooklyn-based founders of Smashrun, along with the team behind Contratan.do will present at one of Puerto Varas’ first meetups this Wednesday, Jan. 25th. The meetup is being lead by a group called Despega Sur whose mail goal is to create an entrepreneurial network in the South of Chile.
See you there!
What you need to know:
Date: January 25th, 2012
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Club Orquidea, San Pedro 537, Puerto Varas
RSVP not required.