The document summarizes Chile's Startup Chile program, which aims to make Chile the innovation hub of South America. The program offers $40k grants, 1-year resident visas, and integration into Chile's entrepreneurial community to startups. It highlights Chile's strong tech talent pool, growing startup scene, government innovation programs, and position as a gateway to the South American market as reasons for startups to participate in Startup Chile. The goal is for Chilean entrepreneurship and innovation to have global impact.

1. “Chile mustbecometheinnovationhubofSouth America”Juan Andrés Fontaine, MinisterofEconomy

2. Pilot 2010Bootstrapabroadprogram $40k Grant + 1yr ResidentVisa + 6 monthsprogram + SoftlandingwithProgramOffice + EventswithAngels/VCs + Business Mentor: Local network + Insertin toEntrepreneurialCommunity + Access totalent: recruiting = >Blog www.startupchile.org >Apply www.corfo.cl/startupchile >Email palto@startupchile.org >Twitter @startupchile

3. Connect:leveragetalent & network

4. OurCommunityChilean-basedStartupScene

5. c. $300m outstandingin Angel / VC money

6. Bootstrap expense comparison

7. RecruitingTalent (1)Average salaries perselectedmajors

8. RecruitingTalent (2)Average salaries perselectedmajors

9. Talent PoolStrongtechandengineerbased World Economic Forum The Global CompetitivenessReport 2009–2010

11. Most of the Web developers in Chile use a PHP Framework (CakePhp, Codeigniter, Symfony, etc), after that it will come Ruby on Rails, and then Django or Java framework as Struts, Grails, etcStartupsusingRoR

12. InternetScenev Silicon Valley = = = = = = 6.2m monthlyvisitors (Ranked #19 by Google DoubleClick Ad Planner) 6.9m users ~40% population (Ranked #17 by Facebook Data) 13.2% ofreach (Ranked #10 by marketpenetration by Comscore) Internet penetration: 8.3m users ~50% population (Ranked #35 by InternetWorldStats.com) 16.7m mobilephones +100% population (by Subtel.cl) ~100,000 Smartphones (Start-Up Chile estimation)

13. Gov’tprograms (1)InnovaChile

14. Gov’tprograms (2)InvestChile

15. SELASummit @ Stanford

16. A PlatformMarketChile: more FTA in theworld

17. MNCs in Chile Building global service centers Increasing value added and complexity

18. CHILEAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION WILL CHANGE THE WORLD 