I’m Learning a Gang More S#$% in Start-up Chile: Part 2

I’m going to presume you read I’m learning a Gang of S$#@ in Chile, Part 1 so I won’t repeat the story.

As I have said multiple times now, one of the best things about Start-up Chile is the other companies. It’s not that the staff aren’t good — but I have spent a lot more time with the other companies since the program did not “officially” start until Thursday — which is kind of crazy considering how much I have learned and done already!

For example, Astrid Castaneda is the CEO of Mi Manual de Bebe — she says,

“Did you ever think your baby should have come with an instruction manual? Well, now it does.”

Astrid has 4 MILLION VISITORS to her site every year and has over 1.6 MILLION subscribers. That is a conversion rate that most so-called SEO experts would sell their grandmother for.

She gave me a lot of advice on how to increase traffic to our site (you can thank her for the parenting book) and her co-founder gave me a crash course on Google analytics.

Both Astrid and Bernadito of clickbox have been super-supportive of me improving my Spanish.

Bernie told me the first week,

“Quit saying your Spanish isn’t good! My goal in this program is to learn English so well that I can pitch our start-up in English. Right now my co-founder does the pitches but I am going to learn English well enough that I can give our pitch in English by the end of…