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Jump-starting a

Tequila Valley an outsiders POV of the latin-american Internet market

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About Me

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Did I say... outsider?

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Me, Me, MeB.S in Physics (FAU, Boca Raton) with a Masters inEconometrics (M.Ec., Univ. of Sydney).

Ive lived inMiami (well, and Boca), Sydney , Anchorage ,

Bogota and currently in Mexico DF .

I have held many positions consulting in digital media for Mexican and American companies including a long stint atGuerra Castellanos (ex-Edelman).

Whilst in Mexico, I started what is (apparently) the largestMexican community of web developers, technology andinternet professionals: Tequila Valley .

An active blogger and new media evangelist. When on agood day, Im also a certied PHP developer.

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Nets & Jets

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Tequila Valley

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... What is this valley you speak of ?

GoalsHelp A Meet BBe centerpoint at best, present at worst

to anything thats happening in new mediain Mexico.

Generate an internet culture.Help promote events that arrange people

towards an internet economy.

+ =

Central TenetsIts mexican.There are no presidents, no owners, no

creators ( cof-cof ) or stockholders.No rule is set in stone.

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This is not your average startup

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Its about convergence

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10 months, so?

SuperHappyDevHouse

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Other-Other valleys

(argentina)

(mexico)

(chile)(chile)

(ecuador)(peru)

(uruguay)

(argentina)

Hola

!(austin) (miami)

(mexico)

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What about Latin America?

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Some numbers rst

EnglishChineseSpanishJapaneseFrenchPortugueseGerman... source: Internet World Stats - http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm

464M

321M

131M

94M

74M

73M

65M

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Theres a common trafc pattern

= total trafc = total trafc ... remaining

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This market has had a couple of runaway hits- Nominated at the12th Annual SXSW

Web Awards- Part of

TechCrunch50

- iTunes Music Store#1 and #2 mostdownloaded

Technology Podcast(in spanish)

- 5 Million monthly unique visitors (11million pageviews) and

thus the most readcontent network inspanish.

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And theres something about Mxico YouTubeUploads by Country

1. USA: 34.5%2. Philippines: 3.9%3. Turkey: 3.4%4. Spain: 3.4%5. Canada: 3.0%6. Brazil: 3.0%7. Germany: 2.6%8. France: 2.6%9. Mexico: 2.6%10.Australia: 2.6%

27 million on the Internet(and only a 29% penetration rate)

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Shall we build a bridge?

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All we need are webapps ... in spanish

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psst , its really easy to transfer money over

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So?

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kthxbyefollow me on twitter: @mpastrana

(sorry, I treat these as mandatory)

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