Advice on life, marriage, startups and Chile

Should you move to another country, found another company, live away from your husband or all of the above?

Should you apply for Startup Chile?

I’ve been asked this question by a couple of people recently and here is my answer. Startup Chile was a great experience and although I wouldn’t do it for a second time, I’d highly recommend doing it once. If you make the effort, one big advantage of living in Chile is your Spanish will improve greatly. I’m trying to listen to podcasts, follow people on social media in Spanish and keep up with online courses but it is nothing like being there.

You’ll learn the difficulty of starting and maintaining a company in a country where you aren’t fluent in the language

A lot of entrepreneurs talk about “the global market” in their pitches to investors as if they had any idea what they were talking about. Ha, ha, ha! Let me pause to laugh at how laughable this is.

If we had not hired Maria Paz Jorquera early on, and then Daniel Mondaca to take up where she left off, I don’t know how we would have made it. People assume they will “get by” with Google translate and…