Would love to hear more about living and working in Chile. Are you chilean? How hard is it to find smart people? Is there a local startup scene? Is all of this government propaganda or is there really a thriving culture of risk-taking and entrepreneurship? What about VCs?
I am chilean, but just so you know a bit of my background, I went to Berkeley and worked in San Jose at a company in the semiconductors industry.
There is a very good startup community here, there are regular events like First Tuesday and DELM.
It is not hard to find smart and capable people, in fact a few Americans have scolded me for stating the opposite in the past. There's a lot of potential here, checkout bligoo.com, needish.com, betazeta.com, voxound.com, to name a few.
The goverment is very serious about all of this and it is putting a lot of money and effort into it. They are also putting good incentives for local startups.
The biggest con about Chile is the small and underdeveloped VC scene, but in spite of this, there's a good private investors scene, albeit not as accessible. The chilean goverment is also backing VCs by actually giving them money to invest.
