mituljain

Great post - what a lot of people forget - or don't do well is to highlight and show-off the press they already received. This was also missed in the article. Writers tend to think along similar lines and if you can show that there are others writing good things about you - and can present a log of what's been said in the past - it gives journos a great starting point for their next article about you or your startup. The guys at Presstler are working on an interesting solution for this - providing automated Press Pages - www.presstler.com

I'm not so sure - historically only people from the US , UK, Canada & Australia seem to have made it in. I don't blame them - being from one of these places significantly simplifies the whole visa stuff.

our demo got looked at 4 times - but we were rejected after all! Oh well - another time :)

it's down :/

Great read! This really ties up together with the idea of "keep shipping" - while working on a startup recently - I found myself spending a lot of time thinking about what if this or what if that. The kind of logic that paralyzes you. This is specifically a problem for perfectionists and very intelligent people - you're either afraid it wont be perfect or spend so much time thinking of the most efficient or beautiful solution that in the mean time someone else - may have already solved it. That experience really taught me to keep shipping - stuff wont work - even if it isn't one of those massively hard problems - sometimes things just dont work. The trick is to keep shipping and that 1% will go up to much more!

thanks for the quick answers! can I contact you in any other way with more questions please?

and in that case what are the odds of actually finding investors during the program? (do they have serious investors visiting etc?)

hey, since you've been through the program and we recently got selected I had a few questions - that I hope you'd answer:

1) Can you stay on there longer after the 6 months? What are the permit restrictions etc?

2) How many people actually came there with little or no product ready and actually built up while in Chile itself?

3) What are the odds that people who fall under the category of 2) got funding there itself?

What I am trying to understand is - is this something more worthwhile for those who already have something running and are maybe already talking to investors? Or is it also an equally good opportunity for people who've been playing with an idea and will have maybe 60% ready by the time they get there - but have no other investment other than their own money ?

Thanks a lot!

what bothers me - or has me in awe even (to some extent) is how early on in the process facebook started storing all this information! I've had status updates from years ago show up in my "this day in 2009" pop-up on the sidebar. And clearly from the content of these files on the above website - they have stuff on you that goes way -way back. It seems almost sinister - as if they knew all along that they would aggregate so much information - althought on the face of it - it was just another social networking site. Which I would assume like any other website or web-app would delete unneccesary stuff in order to save space / efficiency etc (atleast before they got huge and had their own server farms). At the same time - one cant help but wonder if having all this data (and probably a lot lot more that we dont see from an outsider's perspective) - is really what is responsible for facebook making the "right" moves every now and then with regards to really delivering features that its users will use and growing at unbelievable rates? Might be food for thought - after all - the more you know about your users - the better you can serve them!