The use of business incubators in Latin America is a good way to get new companies to achieve success through specialized mentoring. This mentoring encourages new business development and entrepreneurship, helping to stimulate positive changes in the society and the economy of a country.
I sat down with Romi Bhatia, Executive Director of The Idea Center at Miami Dade College for a conversation about leadership, running a family business and navigating in a post Covid world.
…n Moshe at Twitoplast. This is one of the few factories where Palestinians and Israelis work together in the assembly line. One week in Israel is not enough, but it sure is a good start. I have just returned from my first trip to Israel hosted by the AJC’s Project Interchange. Every year the AJC, together with the Knight Foundation, hosts a group of Miami tech entrepreneurs in Israel for an immersive experience. Through these one week-long semin…
Every year, 300 girls from Miches attend the Soy niña, soy importante (I’m a Girl, I’m Important) camp. The program encourages and teaches them to design a positive life plan, to build confidence and to empower themselves to make age appropriate decisions such as continuing their studies, preventing untimely pregnancies, and avoiding and escaping situations of violence.
At the beginning of NATPE, the annual Conference & Exhibition of the worldwide television community, I had a One-on-One session with Anna Carugati, from World Screen, where we talked about how the Cisneros Group is handling the many opportunities that the new media offers to reach our audiences, focusing on one thing: making TV a social experience.
On March 16th the digital accelerator 21212 had its first demo day in Rio. I had the honor of mentoring three of the companies that presented – Simpply, Ainda Tem and iTrip.
Recently, I had the honor to participate as a panelist at the The Paley Center for Media’s Global Forum, where we discussed the new trends in technology and the changes we are experiencing in the information, entertainment, telecommunications and advertising industries.
…to market to Hispanics in the US. Their first mobile campaign ran in 2011 and since then Adsmovil has worked with hundreds of brands to get them closer to this coveted and highly mobile demographic. I invited Andrés Arias, Senior Vice President of Adsmovil and long time Cisneros executive to share with us how Adsmovil is innovating through a partnership with Florida International University. Traditional polling to Hispanics is doomed. Well, not…
The topic is Radical Geometry, a show currently at the Royal Academy of Arts in London of our family’s collection of modernist Latin American art.
…weeks we have all in one way or another had to rethink our business goals and strategies. At the same time, at Cisneros we have looked at how we can harness our business operations and existing social impact initiatives to communicate relevant content. As the leading broadcast TV station in Venezuela with nationwide reach, Venevision, has honed in on its power to communicate through both television and social media to educate on prevention of the…