Chile Anyone?
· From the 2010–2013 blog
So they want to send me to Chile. Take a look at this and it will hopefully make a little more sense, but basically the idea is the Chilean government will give you 90% of US 44K to start-up shop there. The Chileans hope you get stuck and stay, but in the least they have added about 20 million Pecos to their economy. For the entrepreneur you get a chance to visit somewhere different, for free, which is kinda cool. The reason I mention it, is that my dear business partners think this is the perfect way to preoccupy me for 6 months while they twiddle their thumbs at their current jobs. While it does sound really cool - its gonna make this whole spacial togetherness thing a little hard, especially while Stevie is fighting for Toronto time. We will have to talk about it again, but unless the 3 of us were going down there it just doesn't make sense to me right now (and 6 months is a giant long time). And it turns out that reading the actual requirements document (I was curious enough that I did) we meet a whooping 3% of the criteria to apply (unless we lie viciously and say we want to be there forever, then we meet about 15%). So I might not be going after all - but it was a neat though anyways. On a more local subject we have been making huge progress (with the boys hopefully having had a great chat last night, while I had my last ever Sandvine poker night). Today's plan is to finally finish and hand out the sale list, hack through another competition demo and officially change my address.