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looks really cool!

We spoke to Chile's next generation of startup thought leaders and they spoke back.. ..what're yours?

I suggest you to sign up on http://www.startupdigest.com/chile to stay connected with chilean startup scene!

Disclaimer: I'm the curator of Chile Startup Digest

@cleiva

FYI, I'm very engaged with Quora, and I live in Chile http://www.quora.com/Carlos-Leiva-Burotto and through Quora I made networking with a guy who works on Mauritian Island.. that's in the front of Madagascar!!!! Not even through Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Flickr, etc I engaged with someone from that place!!

So Quora is definitely a worldwide tool and the active members are not only people from SV.

You should definitely open your mind to not see only the things that you want to see.

About life in Chile, visa processes, doing business in Chile, and the general cost of living.. well, you can find information here: http://startupchile.wordpress.com/destination-chile/

In terms of salaries for a developer with at least 2 years of experience:

Program Analyst: $1210/mo Informations: $1450/mo Civil Engineer, Information: $1700/mo Programming: $1100/mo Design and Industrial Production: $700/mo

Are there other foreigner software startups / companys or immigrants ?

There are companies such as Wanako Games (NYC), Bio Architecture Lab (Berkeley), Bling Nation (Palo Alto), Atakama Labs (SF), Entegris (Nasdaq: ENTG), InquiroGroup (Palo Alto) and Zappedy (SF). More information on http://supercoolschool.typepad.com/startupschool/2010/08/sta...

What about the English skills ? I think you will be fine here, there is no deal if your software is written in a different language. (I'm not sure if I understand your point with the english skills.. you're worried because you have to learn spanish?)

Hope it helps, any doubt, don't hesitate to ask.

I can't answer all of the questions. So I'll contact people and make some research to give you full detailed answers.

Please check my new reply here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1570167

Chilean Startup Scene

On Chile, since 2007, the startup scene has been initiated at Santiago with two most highlighted products developed by Chileans, those are Needish.com & Bligoo.com.

Needish is like Redbeacon.com while Bligoo is like Blogspot.com for chileans. I have to say that Needish launched the service before Redbeacon, so Cheers for the chileans.

On 2008, I went at differents events, like www.FirstTuesday.cl and www.Webprendedor.com, doing networking with local people (investors & developers) and it was great to feel that finally the chileans are currently working developing startups. On these conferences, there were people like:

- Pedro Pablo Fuentes Schuster who is a developer, and who's the Director of the website http://www.chileayuda.com specially developed to help people find information after the last Feb 27th Earthquake. He also organized the last RHoK [1] event at UChile. He haves two web development companies: http://diDigital.cl and http://OXUS.cl with a good portfolio on both companies.

- Daniel Undurraga http://twitter.com/eldani Is the founder of Needish, what's Needish? Please read this article: http://blog.needish.com/content/view/4/About.html Also this year, Daniel with the team behind Needish, launched http://clandescuento.com on March and on June, Groupon acquired Clandescuento [2]

- Cristián Sepulveda http://twitter.com/crsepulv is the founder of http://Ubiqq.com (real time conferences)

- Paolo Colonello http://twitter.com/colonnello is the founder of http://Bligoo.com

- Tomás Pollak http://www.bootlog.org http://twitter.com/tomaspollak One of his projects is Prey Project, a lightweight application that will help you track and find your laptop if it ever gets stolen http://preyproject.com/ [3]

- Leo Prieto http://leoprieto.com/ http://twitter.com/leoprieto He's the founder of Fayerwayer ( http://www.fayerwayer.com ), the most visited blog about technology on Latin America.

- Juan Francisco Diez http://twitter.com/jf10 He's the founder of Chile Hardware http://www.chw.net , the same thing that Fayerwayer, but on Hardware things..

* Leo Prieto and Juan Francisco Diez founded BetaZeta.com, a network of Blogs.

- Nicolás Orellana is the guy behind Webprendedor or the Chilean Startups Conference. This year is going to be held on November 19th & 20th See http://www.webprendedor.com/conferencia-2010/

These guys didn't went to Webprendedor, but they are also involved on the startup environment:

- Javier Salcedo http://twitter.com/JavierSplitcast He's on the team of Splitcast.net, their product is a new P2P Multicast Streaming technology, which reduces the bandwith consumption on 70% and can increase the people already connected up to 70 times. http://www.twitter.com/SplitCast

- Agustin Feuerhake http://twitter.com/AgustinF He's the founder of Voxound.com, this web application is like a music recommendation system. I didn't tested yet.

- Esteban Sosnik. He's the founder of Atakama Labs http://www.atakamalabs.com/ (gaming industry). Check his profile on Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=369165

On 2009, Chris Anderson (from Wired Magazine) and Sarah Lacy (from Techcrunch) came to Chile to an event organized by Wenceslao Casares [4] and Tiburcio de la Carcova [5], called Traweln [6].

* Traweln is an informal gathering of entrepreneurs, executives and investors that work with technology, design and entertainment companies in Latin America. This year Traweln will be hosted in Silicon Valley at 455 Old la Honda Rd, Woodside, CA. More information at http://traweln.org/

On 2010, If you are interested to launch your business on Chile, you should read:

- Chilean Government to attract entrepreneurs http://www.corfo.cl/startupchile/ http://startupchile.org/

- Top Reasons to Invest in Chile in 2010 http://www.investchile.com/

- VISA Stuff http://www.extranjeria.gov.cl/ingles/

- Startupweekend: For first time, Startupweekend.org is hosting an event on Santiago, Chile on December 10, 11 & 12, 2010. Check http://santiago.startupweekend.org/

Reviews of Chile on the Startup Scene: - http://www.inc.com/articles/2010/05/chile-next-silicon-valle... - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/10/chile-wants-your-poor-y... - http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2009/tc200...

Hope this helps to get an idea of what is the startup scene on Santiago, Chile.

For any question, don't hesitate to contact me. I'm @cleiva http://twitter.com/cleiva

[1] http://www.rhok.org/ [2] http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/24/groupon-clandescuento-clube... [3] http://lifehacker.com/5273620/prey-phones-home-to-help-you-r... [4] Founder and co-CEO of Bling Nation http://twitter.com/wences [5] He founded http://www.atakamalabs.com/ with Esteban Sosnik http://twitter.com/tiburcio [6] Flickr Gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42080094@N03/

I agree with you

You can also see a video of Chileayuda.com from ny1noticias.com (tv news channel) here: http://www.ny1noticias.com/content/cultura_y_sociedad/118859...

that was the website I was looking for!!!!!!!!!! thank you so much!!! If I could give you 1000 of karma I will do it!!

If you have twitter, please follow me @cleiva so I can help you in any way.. once more, thanks!!!

I'm currently reading "UML - A beginner's guide" from Jason T. Roff.. the goal of that book is to learn for software design, analysis, and development. UML = unified modeling language

that urls don't have the exact thing that I want, but are very near of the kind of content that I'm looking for.. thank you so much!

thanks for the url... I hope someone else could remember the url of the website that I forgot

My wavesandbox username is: cleiva

if you want to try google app engine as CDN, visit www.digitalistic.com/2008/06/09/10-easy-steps-to-use-google-app-engine-as-your-own-cdn/ great trick

A lot of times i couldn't login because I just forgot my password. Send Password recovery email is a must!

very useful article!

Thanks for sharing your opinion... 200+ is a valuable experience on GoDaddy

EDIT: I added you on my twitter

A few weeks ago, I did a survey trough Google Docs "Forms" and I didn't want to embed the survey on a blog, so I can't get a track of the visitors of my survey.

But now, you can get full statistics with Google Analytics, so just think about the future that Google Docs could have in a few months. this is just great!

thank you a lot for sharing this!

Thank you! I didn't realize that virtualmin has an opensource mode

Do you have any suggestion on a free control panel to try on SliceHost?

I had this question many times. I think is better to have a tech co-founder, because you need to tryout your product and make buzz on the market. Then, the right people for marketing and business plan will come to you.

I think Mr. Jobs choose to sell the Iphone cheaper this time, because he knows that Google Android will be a very stronger competition to Iphone, so it was pretty clever in that way. I will definitely wait for the release of the HTC android mobile system.