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Re:Flip-side of Startup Chile by alphydan on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:22AM (#11102573)
He's surprised that you actually have to do something in order to get free money? And that tax payers require transparency about how it's spent?

I was part of Startup Chile and got into a VC run accelerator in the US, and bureaucracy in the US was much worse (Lawyers and accountants required for everything, incorporation as C-corp as a pre-condition, immigration acrobatics, etc). He may change his opinion if he has to move to a US accelerator with a $40k - $50k investment (just icing, as dashr rightly points out).

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Re:Flip-side of Startup Chile by bramjans on Monday February 15, 2016 @07:58AM (#11103085)
Very much this.

I was also part of Startup Chile (8th gen) and the demands of the program were very reasonable. Gaining the RVA points to foster the community was really a small price to pay for basically "free money".

The transparency into spendings was very understandable and additionally largely due to some pretty shameless abuses in previous generations.

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