why here

I discovered an interesting website today and I wanted to share some of the videos that I found there. The messages given are not new for me any more (after a year living close to American universities and Silicon Valley in general), but they might be useful for my family and friends to understand why I’m here.

• Passion for work (video)
• Persistence pays off (video)
• Experience is overrated (video)
• The strengths of Silicon Valley (video)
• Can entrepreneurship be taught? (video)
• Perseverance: sticking to your beliefs (video)
• A member of the CEO minority (video)
• Entrepreneurs: then and now (pre and post 2001) (video)

Anyone still doesn’t understand why I’m here? ;)

Update: Pepe was in fact the one who found this website and gave me the link and he is requesting a mention :)

team, scalability, strategy, location

That’s what a VC is looking for according to Bill Payne in Angelsoft Blog. I don’t agree that location should be important in today’s world. Proximity with the team, meaning that they feel comfortable working together and that they can trust each other is key, but I find that this proximity is much deeper than “location”. 

today I discovered Silicon Alley…

…and Angelsoft. Here is a video about the startups/investors incubator they are buliding in NYC’s Silicon Alley.