Stay Curious My Friends

Chile has a a great startup program that I’m a big fan of! Basically you move to Chile for 6 months, receive $44k equity free capital, and a 1 year visa. Plus you have some smaller requirements of giving back while you are there to Chile through a variety of programs.

Long term I think this program is going to really shine, just look at the comments at Hacker News! They are building a group of entrepreneurs whose network is based around that time in Chile and I think long term it is going to pay off for the government and economy. All you need are for a few startup founders to fall in love with Chile, stay, and establish their startups there. And locally it helps produce demand now for high level jobs that will stay in the loop even when the startups go home since the internet workforce can be global.

Andrew at Mixergy got some DC entrepreneurs together for drinks a few weeks ago and I wanted to show off a cool SAAS product Dan made.

It’s called SocialTables and it makes building a seating chart “painless”. I played with it a little and it is awesome, great for weddings, events, etc and I really think it is going to do well. It is going to be an easy way to create table seating charts. Just watch the demo video on their frontpage for more info.