Startup Grind Bogota Hosts Juan Diego Calle (Straat)

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Juan Diego Calle, Straat

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Juan Diego Calle is a Colombian-American serial startup entrepreneur: He is best known as the founder and CEO of .CO Internet SAS, a company acquired by Neustar, Inc. in April of 2014. Prior to that, while at the University of Miami, he launched and ran TeRespondo.com (http://terespondo.com/), a performance-based advertising network, which he sold to Yahoo in 2005. As Chairman of STRAAT, a company builder based in Miami, Florida, Juan Diego co-founded Building.co (http://www.building.co/), a collaborative work space for growing tech companies, Classic.com (http://www.classic.com/), a classic car restoration business, POP.co (http://www.pop.co/), a platform designed to help entrepreneurs and businesses get online, and BoutiqueHotels.com (http://www.boutiquehotels.com/) a hand-curated list of boutique hotels around the world. He’s an alumni of the Harvard Business School OPM program.

Agenda

6:00 Networking and Food
7:00 Fireside Chat
8:00 Networking

Hosted By Alan Colmenares, Bogota Chapter Director

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Alan Colmenares is advisor and Executive VP at Tappsi, the leading taxi hailing startup in Colombia and writes for his own blog at TropicalGringo.com. After stints at startups in Silicon Valley, he moved to South America. He has been a Venture Capitalist in Mexico and Brazil (Intel Capital) and is, currently, an advisor and shareholder in several startups. Since 2010, he's been an award-winning Director of the Founder Institute in Colombia as well as a mentor for Endeavor. He is currently creating a new angel fund called Tayrona.VC. On May 2015, he became Director of Startup Grind Bogota with a new vision to promote startup founders in Colombia on a global stage .
Email: alan@startupgrind.com | Twitter: @TropicalGringo (http://twitter.com/TropicalGringo)

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