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A media about power in Colombia 
500,000 unique visitors a month 
71% 29% 
21% 
29% 
28% 
19% 
3% 
25‐34  35‐44  45‐54  55‐64  65‐75 
Young but not so young 
4% 
28% 
23% 
32% 
14% 
Bachillerato  Pregrado  Posgrado  Maestría  Doctorado 
High level of educaDon 
Our offer 
5 original content stories a day 
 
1 Debate plaForm 
 
15 blogs 
 
3 aggregators 
 
1 Live SecDon 6 / 307,000 twiLer followers 
 
Many Databases 
Our REAL offer 
A COMMUNITY OF 
PEOPLE 
INTERESTED IN 
PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN 
COLOMBIA 
 
Sustainability 
•  23 % adverDsing 
•  52 % grants 
•  12 % workshops and 
consulDng 
•  7 % Super Amigos 
•  6 % university events & 
lisDngs 
Achievements 
•  500.000 unique visitors 
•  3rd most read online media by opinion 
leaders 
•  Several scoops – no lawsuits 
•  Becoming a lab for innovaDve 
journalism 
 
•  Having more than 600 Super Amigos 
 
•  Surviving 5 years, 2 babies and sDll 
with a car 
Challenges 
•  Convincing good journalists to 
work at La Silla 
•  Producing high‐quality 
journalism every day 
•  To stay innovaDve 
•  To find a business model 
•  To have la Silla AND a life 
Plans for the future 
•  To become a social network 
plaForm for people 
interested in public affairs in 
Colombia 
 
•  To make money while we 
sleep 
20 lessons to take away 
1. How you see yourself maLers: a 
community, a lab, ¿a business? 
 
2. Hiring journalists is not always a good 
idea. ArDsts and engineers. 
 
3. Each user is important: you have to 
respect them. 
 
4. The key is transparency 
 
5. Aggregate news, produce original 
content 
20 lessons to take away 
6. Have a unique personality 
 
7. Build upon exisDng networks 
 
8. Let people do on your page at least 
what they do on Facebook 
 
9. No maLer what, sDck to your rouDne 
 
10. Dedicate enDrely to it 
20 lessons to take away 
11. Understand how Internet thinks and act 
accordingly 
 
12. GamificaDon of informaDon is a way to 
go 
 
13. Know your audience / sell your audience 
 
14. Grow slowly and in the direcDon you 
want 
 
15. Everything is beta 
 
20 lessons to take away 
16. Traffic or PresDge: can you moneDze it? 
 
17. Transmedia is a good idea 
 
18. Nothing is really free 
 
19. As long as everything is beauDful all 
match 
 
20. You only accomplish things when 
someone is in charge of it. 
 
ENJOY 

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