Sources of funding for innovative companies

Last week I was asked to give a presentation on sources of funding for innovative companies, at an event organized by WIPO and the Science and Technology Minister of Argentina.
You can take a look and/or download the presentation below. I focused on Venture Capital, of course, and knowing my audience was mainly academic researchers, I focused on trying to convey the expectations of institutional and/or profesional investors when looking for investment opportunities. However, I think that the presentation can be useful to a broader audience, as sometimes reviewing the basics provides new insights (at least, that's always the case for me, and that is why I enjoy preparing and delivering these presentations so much).

It's in spanish, but it doesn't have that many words... :P

EK - OMPI-MinCyT - Julio 08 - Fuentes de financiacion para PyMES tecnologicas - Venture Capital - Upload a Document to Scribd

Read this document on Scribd: EK - OMPI-MinCyT - Julio 08 - Fuentes de financiacion para PyMES tecnologicas - Venture Capital

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Hybrid Model

We've been working at it for years, advocating it as the right way for Latin American tech companies to go global. Now it has a name: hybrid model.
Check out the story (spanish only) in America Economía

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Core Security story told in 2005

Someone just sent me a youtube link to a conference held in 2005 in Buenos Aires where I sat on a panel with friends and partners Mario Quintana and Jeronimo Bosch to tell the story of Core Security Technologies from both perspectives: entrepreneur and investors. Here it is (...in Spanish):

Popego Concept launch

Today, Popego launched its Concept version (or, as they say, their "very alpha"). Congratulations to the team (Santi, Cono, Fer, Manuel, Victor, Santi and Mike) for a job well done! The presentation was engaging, the demo was flawless, and the small f&f crowd was really excited about the potential.
As we all are!
You can check our concept popegos on the right, and sign up for the alpha. Coming up really really soon.

cheers,

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credibility and the internet, on Seph's words

During their winter break two brillant soon-to-graduate MIT Sloan students, Seph Skerrit and John Clingan, spent three weeks working at popego. Their work was focused on popego's value proposition and distribution strategy (on which they did a great job), but they got enough free time to enjoy the great night-life in Buenos Aires, do some trekking on Patagonia and dive on some deep thoughts. Speaking of which, here is a great post by Seph on Credibility on the Internet -an issue very close to Popego's core.

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New site, coming soon

we are rebuilding the site -yes, something long-due. We´ll have it online in a few days.
Meanwhile, just the blog.

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"Blog, Blog, Blog it all...

...won't you blog about this song?", asks a very funny online-hit by The Richter Scales. A little bubble on its own, check it out:



update: removed, and up again, thanks Wata for the tip.