"In 1996 Costa Rica shocked the sourcing world by winning a $300 million deal with Intel to build a new semiconductor plant, against a host of seemingly better qualified countries. Since then, through coordinated government effort, the ‘new kid on the block’ has become a choice destination for high-end ITO and software development services. Can Costa Rica continue its winning ways or are there".
Read complete article: http://www.nearshoreamericas.com/country-profile-identifying-the-real-source-of-costa-ricas-winning-sourcing-strateg/3551/
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
What a brilliant idea: Startup Visa!
Qualifying for the Startup Visa
In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Kauffman Foundation economist Robert E. Litan argues the "Startup Visa Act" introduced recently by Senators John Kerry (D., Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R., Ind.) should be broader to fully capture the job-creation potential of immigrant entrepreneurs. In particular, Litan argues that job creation, not money, should be the criterion for qualifying for the new visa.
The bill would grant a two-year visa for immigrant entrepreneurs whose firms attract at least $250,000 in angel or venture capital financing. Litan says such a monetary threshold "sets the bar too high" for most immigrants to reach; fewer immigrant entrepreneurs would mean fewer jobs created. He cites as an example Google co-founders Sergey Brin, an immigrant, and Larry Page, who borrowed funds from their own credit cards.
As a solution, Litan proposes a true "job creator's visa" that is tied directly and only to job creation by new immigrant entrepreneurs. The visa could be temporary for immigrants who are already in the United States on another visa and who establish a business. Immigrants would be allowed to extend the visa if the individual's firm hires at least one American non-family resident and would become permanent once the enterprise crosses a certain job threshold (such as five or ten workers).
Full article here
Source: http://unleashingideas.tribalise.com/resources/kauffman-articles/21-policy-dialog-on-entrepeneurship/1167-qualifying-for-the-startup-visa
In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Kauffman Foundation economist Robert E. Litan argues the "Startup Visa Act" introduced recently by Senators John Kerry (D., Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R., Ind.) should be broader to fully capture the job-creation potential of immigrant entrepreneurs. In particular, Litan argues that job creation, not money, should be the criterion for qualifying for the new visa.
The bill would grant a two-year visa for immigrant entrepreneurs whose firms attract at least $250,000 in angel or venture capital financing. Litan says such a monetary threshold "sets the bar too high" for most immigrants to reach; fewer immigrant entrepreneurs would mean fewer jobs created. He cites as an example Google co-founders Sergey Brin, an immigrant, and Larry Page, who borrowed funds from their own credit cards.
As a solution, Litan proposes a true "job creator's visa" that is tied directly and only to job creation by new immigrant entrepreneurs. The visa could be temporary for immigrants who are already in the United States on another visa and who establish a business. Immigrants would be allowed to extend the visa if the individual's firm hires at least one American non-family resident and would become permanent once the enterprise crosses a certain job threshold (such as five or ten workers).
Full article here
Source: http://unleashingideas.tribalise.com/resources/kauffman-articles/21-policy-dialog-on-entrepeneurship/1167-qualifying-for-the-startup-visa
Friday, March 12, 2010
Monday, March 01, 2010
Converging ideas, knowledge and technology
Most of us would agree that we live in a connected World. We would agree that consequences of our actions and decisions emerge in different shapes in different places of the World.
I have always been extremely attracted to understand this connectivity and to learn how to use it for good purposes.
Almost one month ago I started a new job. The company is called Avantica Technologies (www.avantica.net) and we provide outsourcing software product development services to USA, Europe and Latin America. We were born in Silicon Valley and founded by Mario and Luis Carlos Chaves, two Costa Ricans that were ready to take the challenge when the opportunity appeared 15 years ago.
My experience in Avantica is becoming a great school on how to connect the World. From my perspective, the essence of the business is the belief that distance and time are relative when it comes to converge ideas, knowledge and technology that can transform societies.
I am building a network of partners that help us connecting with all those entrepreneurs and organizations that are looking for a way to make their ideas happen. It seems like the beginning of great journey, one that needs to be lead by the passion to connect, driven by the will to learn and achieved by the discipline to execute.
I have always been extremely attracted to understand this connectivity and to learn how to use it for good purposes.
Almost one month ago I started a new job. The company is called Avantica Technologies (www.avantica.net) and we provide outsourcing software product development services to USA, Europe and Latin America. We were born in Silicon Valley and founded by Mario and Luis Carlos Chaves, two Costa Ricans that were ready to take the challenge when the opportunity appeared 15 years ago.
My experience in Avantica is becoming a great school on how to connect the World. From my perspective, the essence of the business is the belief that distance and time are relative when it comes to converge ideas, knowledge and technology that can transform societies.
I am building a network of partners that help us connecting with all those entrepreneurs and organizations that are looking for a way to make their ideas happen. It seems like the beginning of great journey, one that needs to be lead by the passion to connect, driven by the will to learn and achieved by the discipline to execute.
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