by Adrianne Jeffries
About 100 investors, founders and startup folk–including the guy siting next to Betabeat whose nametag read “SocialNetwork.com”–gathered last night in Microsoft’s sixth floor office, just a few doors down from Radio City Music Hall, for the ceremonious-sounding Ultra Light Startups Feedback Forum and Pitch Showdown. The room was like most that host these things: projector, rows of plastic chairs, podiums. Microsoft does not try to be edgy with the decor.
by Ana Solis
It is no secret that Latin American startups have tended to cater mostly to their regional needs. Luckily for the rest of us, their entrepreneurs are starting to create very interesting products with a more international and a wider audience in mind with a hybrid model, having a team based in the US and one in Latin America. This is the case of Nicolas Orellana, Rodrigo Martinez, and Alejandro Corpeño, who have developed great products with the help of Silicon Valley-based 500Startups in the case of Orellana and Martinez and NYC-based Dreamit for Corpeño. These are their startups and the direction that these entrepreneurs believe their ideas are going.
