want to expand your business to latin america?
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Learn about a network of resources in the Caribbean Basin and Central America specially designed for the international expansion of startups and early stage businesses. Funding channels, investors, allies, partners form part of a strong support network for expansion of startups and early stage businesses to Latin America.TRANSCRIPT
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Want to expand your business to Latin America?Learn about a network of resources in the Caribbean Basin and Central America specially
designed for the international expansion of startups and early stage businesses
Lorenzo Lara Carrero, President
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Mentoring and venture capital for startups landing in Latin America
• Negociosdigitales provides mentoring
services and access to angel and venture
capital sources, for startups and early stage
companies, for expansion and development
in Latin America
• We focus on tech based businesses,
specially Internet companies with great
growth potential in our region
• We work together with an international
network of high level expert and resourceful
partners and allies, with extensive
experience in developing and growing
innovative startups and early stage
businesses
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A regional network of partners and allies, with experience
in developing and growing innovative startups and early
stage businesses in international markets
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International acceleration in Medellín, Colombia
• Strong public and private institutions
committed to innovation and
entrepreneurship
• We work in cooperation with:
• Creame, provider of comprehensive
services for starting and growing
innovative firms doing business in
Colombia and Latin America.
• Capitalia Colombia, specialized
financial services firm for early stage
business with strong growth potential
• Business angels
• Seed capital and sidecar funds
• Mergers and acquisitions
Medellin, in Colombia, was named in 2013
the world's most innovative city in a
competition organized by the non-profit
Urban Land Institute with the support of The
Wall Street Journal and Citi Bank
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Panama City and the City of Knowledge
• The City of Knowledge, in
Panama City, is an international
hub for innovative tech startups
which includes:
• The Panama Business
Accelerator (PBA) and
• The Venture Club: a group of
angel investors where we are
institutional members
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San José, Costa Rica
• A platform for private offerings of debt,
convertible notes and stocks, for early
stage companies
• Mercado Alternativo Para Acciones
(MAPA) in the Bolsa Nacional de
Valores de Costa Rica
• We work together with Mora de la
Orden, Soluciones de Capital
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Willemstad, Curaçao
• Startup Stock Exchange (SSX) in the Dutch
Caribbean Securities Exchange is an
evolution of crowdfunding enabling startups
and early stage companies to make initial
public offerings of stocks.
• SSX´s platform for buying and selling stocks
allows for stock liquidity and for presenting
an emerging international corporation to the
global financial industry.
• Our President, Lorenzo Lara Carrero, is a
member of SSX´s Board of International
Advisors
• We provide assistance in the IPO process
and beyond
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¿What role can Venezuela play in the international
expansion of innovative businesses?
• Venezuelan markets are complex for
political, legal and economic reasons,
only attractive for foreign investment in
special segments like consumer
products or oil related services
• Nevertheless, our country offers
extremely interesting options for
building and leveraging a high quality
network of service providers to support
international business
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Venezuela´s competitive advantages in building and
leveraging and international network of service providers• Caracas, where we have our home office, is a city
strong in high quality human resources adapted to
international markets requirements and very
competitive costs. For example:• Marketing, advertising, telecom services, software
development , content production…
• Sophisticated business design experience,
including financial structuring of international
deals
• Wide experience developing successful Internet
companies
• Strong softwarerdevelopment capabilities
• Specialized and tailored call centers
• Part of Venezuela´s talent network has spread all
over the world, specially to neighboring countries,
and is very accessible from any place through
online work platforms
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Venezuelan diaspora
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• The Venezuelan diaspora offers interesting
possibilities for international business
development. We have documented these
possibilities in several publications, in
Spanish, available by downloading from our
blog:
• Potenciando el valor de la diáspora
latinoamericana para los países de la región.
Marzo 14, 2008.Informe Final para la CAF
preparado por Latinos Globales S.A.
• Internacionalización de los venezolanos y de
sus empresas: capítulo preparado
especialmente para el libro de Michael
Penfold y Roberto Vainrub: Estrategias en
tiempos de turbulencia: Las Empresas en
Venezuela. Ediciones IESA, Caracas 2012
The Venezuelan diaspora
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Setup shop in Medellín, …
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Setup shop in Medellín, source your financing and service needs in the Caribbean Basin
and Central America, …
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Setup shop in Medellín, source your financing and service needs in the Caribbean Basin and
Central America, leverage your service providers network in Venezuela and its diaspora
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Contact
• Lorenzo Lara Carrero
• Skype: lorenzolara
• Whatsapp: +58 412 269 1408
• Blog: Capital Emprendedor
• Linkedin: http://ve.linkedin.com/in/lorenzolara/