Sebastian Vidal Start-Up Chile and Parallel 18 Podcast

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Magma Partners

2 min readJul 27, 2017

Sebastian Vidal is a Chilean who was part of the early Startup Chile team and later became its executive director. Now the director of Parallel 18, a similar program in Puerto Rico, Sebastian has worked with more than 1000 startups and shares his insights into what makes companies successful.

Ep 14 Sebastian Vidal, Building a Powerful Startup Accelerator in Puerto Rico

It's always exciting when I get to sit down with someone like Sebastian Vidal. In his experience working as part of the…

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Outline of This Episode

[1:35] How Sebastian made the transition to Puerto Rico from Chile.
[4:20] The challenge of starting Parallel 18 from scratch.
[6:08] The role Sebastian played in Startup Chile.
[11:00] Lessons learned working with over 1000 startups.
[22:15] Learning the lesson that focus is of paramount importance.
[27:01] The changes Sebastian made starting over with Parallel 18 in Puerto Rico.
[35:55] New perspectives from working with companies in Parallel 18.
[40:22] What types of companies should apply to be part of Parallel 18?
[47:05] How to connect with Sebastian and Parallel 18.