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):

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.

High Gowth

I´ve been asked in a comment to post the presentation I made at the 9th Endeavor conference in Buenos Aires, earlier this year. Looking at it, I thought it might be good idea to post it publicly, specially if it can help those who want to send projects our way to understand what we mean by high-growth.
You can see it here, spanish only.

Cheers,
EK./