tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:06:37 +0000http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/noreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)Blogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-298252618592574976Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:53:00 +00002008-07-22T18:12:45.931-03:00entrepreneurshipfundinginnovationcapital de riesgoVCLast 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 http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2008/07/sources-of-funding-for-innovative.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-2822635013492115080Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:47:00 +00002008-06-12T20:38:31.968-03:00hybrid modeldevelopmentLatin AmericaWe'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 EconomíaEK./http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2008/06/hybrid-model.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-6621820400418645267Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:03:00 +00002008-04-20T18:19:13.290-03:00Someone 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):http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2008/04/core-security-story-told-in-2005.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jony Altszul)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-3744687677083570767Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:33:00 +00002008-02-04T21:55:39.694-02:00credibilitypopegointernetDuring 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. http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2008/02/credibility-and-internet-on-sephs-words.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-7409387880574129734Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:25:00 +00002008-01-09T21:27:46.962-02:00under constructionwe are rebuilding the site -yes, something long-due. We´ll have it online in a few days. Meanwhile, just the blog. EK./http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2008/01/new-site-coming-soon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-2713283742555521537Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:05:00 +00002008-01-10T14:31:32.215-02:00...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.http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2007/12/blog-blog-blog-it-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-2686816743776584835Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:33:00 +00002007-10-11T19:00:02.101-03:00I´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./http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2007/10/high-gowth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-8070230663191151942Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:50:00 +00002007-07-19T19:53:59.214-03:00A facebook app being launched by one of the companies we are working with, to test some concepts, virality and server stress. And its funny! Egotics lets you tell the world a few facts about yourself (what you are, know, love or hate), and then let your visitors rate your different aspects.Get Egotics herehttp://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2007/07/egotics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-8167551679799848908Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:47:00 +00002007-07-20T00:12:54.940-03:00A very educational video, probably not news to many of you (I catched it on VentureBeat, so it is definitely making the rounds). How to raise money from a VC, tips from an Israely entrepreneur/angel investor. (My friend Aviv says this guy's hebrew is a street-wise slang that fits the message perfectly)http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2007/07/how-to-raise-money-from-vc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-9085124274417874599Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:14:00 +00002007-06-21T17:43:14.007-03:00I've been involved for the last couple of years in a series of initiatives to leverage the Argentinian Diaspora (the Argentinians living abroad) in the development of a knowledge economy in Argentina. Last week I gave a brief presentation on a workshop organized by good friend Yevgeny Kuznetsov from the World Bank. Yevgeny has become, over the last few years, the personification of the meme "fromhttp://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2007/06/diaspora-networks-and-development.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-5268632723337015459Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:07:00 +00002007-06-06T17:50:51.912-03:00American Venture Television put up a short clip covering the 9th Annual “Endeavor Conference: Keys to be a Global Entrepreneur”, held at the Sheraton Hotel in Buenos Aires last week. There you can watch Eduardo Elsztain announce the creation of Cap Venture Capital; a sound piece of advice delivered by Daniel Daccarett -a highly energetic Chilean entrepreneur- to a cheering crowd; and myself, http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2007/06/avtv-coverage-of-argentinas-vc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-916223455811402678Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:31:00 +00002007-06-03T23:07:37.129-03:00Last week, Jeff Gangemi wrote an article on entrepreneurship and emerging markets for BusinessWeek.com. It highlights Core and Aconcagua...http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2007/06/businessweekcom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jony Altszul)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-116301361256112392Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:44:00 +00002006-11-13T13:54:32.143-03:00I´ve spent quite a few cycles lately looking closely at a handful of companies in the consumer internet area (I´m trying hard not to say 2.0 here, so bare with me), feeling a little bit of that tingling sensation that you get when you see changing landscapes and enormous opportunity coupled with fuzzy/uncertain business models. Fun, by all means. Recently I came across Munjal Shah´s blog. Munjal http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2006/11/open-ended-consumer-internet-tale.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-116120291870698124Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:41:00 +00002006-10-19T17:04:51.586-03:00I always look out for this small groups that have the ability to produce innovation. Small, complimentary, based on sweat, merit and trust, they can work as a factory for ideas, but they have one extra, distinctive quality: they can execute. I´ve seen this groups work at different scales, in different areas, and had the most inspiring first-hand experience in one of them, building upon the http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2006/10/tight-groups-producing-innovation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-116045119900690946Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:28:00 +00002006-10-11T11:48:21.153-03:00Last weekend I participated as a panelist at Endeavor's 17th Latin American Selection Panel in Saõ Paulo. Endeavor is an NGO that promotes entrepreneurship in emerging markets. It selects high impact entrepreneurs and helps them be succesful so, besides creating jobs and economic wealth, they can become role models and inspire future entrepreneurs. To change the world, this is a lot more than twohttp://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2006/10/endeavor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jony Altszul)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-115999512795338229Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:21:00 +00002006-10-06T13:03:15.710-03:00Space can be arid sometimes. Even inside a space capsule, or a rocket, it can be a very dry place. Or so the first astronauts learned when they blinked. I had the pleasure of sharing last week´s trip to the Canaries with the man who created the formula that wetted the eyes of austronats for the first time, so they could shed some tears of saudade when looking at the blue planet. Jesús "Chuy" http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2006/10/man-who-put-tears-in-astronauts-eyes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-115943972440022117Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:06:00 +00002006-09-28T07:36:14.270-03:00I was invited to give a series of talks in the Canary Islands about the benefits of the knowledge economy and why and how to invest in hi-tech. So I spent the last three days jumping from plane to conference room to plane again, to preach the new word to those who would hear. The audience: resarchers in the morning, businessmen and investors in the afternoon. I was really impressed by what I saw http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2006/09/hi-tech-in-canary-islands.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-115878168665113284Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:36:00 +00002006-09-20T16:48:06.670-03:00I was just reading a story in GigaOm, about a presentation Evan Williams (one of the cofounders of Pyra Labs, of Blogger fame, now CEO of Odeo) made on the Future of Web Apps conference in SanFran. The presentations was called "How Odeo Screwed up". I think there's value there. It made me remember long talks with jony and others, and it made me remember the essay Paul Graham wrote, about How to http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2006/09/random-link-walks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-115748776162728106Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:13:00 +00002006-09-05T17:24:33.673-03:00I´ve been hearing rumors about Google opening an operation in Argentina for quite a while. Although my expectations were around a mixed commercial/technical team (knowing as I know quite a bunch of Argentine techies that´d been either recruited or in google´s radar for a while), reading from the source confirms only a commercial op to sell ads to local companies, the positions advertised being:http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2006/09/google-argentina-old-rumors-confirmed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32410430.post-115713815888040252Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:08:00 +00002006-09-08T13:03:00.116-03:00Blogging season is open here at Aconcagua Ventures. We are launching the blog -and the site!- where we'll be keeping you posted as often as we can on the comings and goings of the top Argentine hi-tech VC!cheers, EK./http://www.aconcaguaventures.com/blog2/2006/09/blog-season.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emiliano Kargieman)0