I'd be really interested to hear from current or past Startup Chile participants as to the quality and style of the companies applying. Is it a really high bar like YC, or is it more along the lines of "if you're working on a credible startup, you're in" kind of thing?
Also, love to see any videos people made for their applications, or any feedback about the application process that they learned after being accepted.
Looking at the stats for the previous round, it was really interesting. IIRC, around 300 applied, ~150 or so of which were ruled out because they didn't qualify or didn't complete the application correctly, and 100 were chosen, or about %66 of the ones who weren't ruled out. This time around, twice as many applied but only %50 more were chosen.
One concern: I avoided the single founder issue by having two co-founders, but both of my co-founders are great partners, though not nearly as experienced with startups as I am.
When we applied for the beta round, the stated goals were having 10% of the companies raise a significant round of further funding or reach 100,000 USD annual revenues. As I understand it, the program blew past this criteria.
Also, love to see any videos people made for their applications, or any feedback about the application process that they learned after being accepted.
Looking at the stats for the previous round, it was really interesting. IIRC, around 300 applied, ~150 or so of which were ruled out because they didn't qualify or didn't complete the application correctly, and 100 were chosen, or about %66 of the ones who weren't ruled out. This time around, twice as many applied but only %50 more were chosen.
One concern: I avoided the single founder issue by having two co-founders, but both of my co-founders are great partners, though not nearly as experienced with startups as I am.