Diversity, Innovation, Business Dev & Emerging Markets

Google Tech Talk
September 18, 2009

ABSTRACT

Presented by Jorge Zavala.

A walk through the life of Jorge Zavala as an engineer, serial entrepreneur and business developer, and the challenges he faced doing business in Latin America to the creation of global companies in Silicon Valley.

Jorge will share his experiences opening the first TechBA office: a Mexican program to help startups to jumpstart in a highly innovated and competitive environment. He will also explain about various opportunities to help and advise foreign companies.

So far, TechBA has introduced more than 450 companies to new markets in the USA, Canada and Europe.

Jorge Zavala is the CEO of TechBA, The Mexico-Silicon Valley Technology Business Accelerator.

Jorge has been very active in promoting entrepreneurship, venture capital and business development strategies in Mexico as a tool to position emerging companies in global markets. He is a member of the Mexican Diaspora with an active participation in Brain Circulation forums related to best practices for learning and knowledge sharing.

He holds an Engineering degree from La Salle University and a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.


About Perspectivas Speaker Series: Perspectivas is a speaker series aimed to empower and inspire individuals by providing 'mentoring at scale'. Latino scientists and professionals share their perspectives on careers, work-life balance, and how they've achieved personal success.

More videos on this series: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=278FED82770E323B

Category:

Science & Technology

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[yonaetc]

Thank you very much for this talk. Practicing, teaching, and facilitating entrepreneurship is great work. skilled communication of shared goals and needs fairly met results in prosperity. To contribute from ones talents for the benefit of self and all others is enlightened self interest. To imagine and create solutions to want and ignorance. To go forward creating increase and benefits for yourself and all others in community with others : )! Business can be seen as spiritual practice : )!

[adelle0001]

very nice lecture! thanks

[kawola17]

Interesting lecture on the dynamics of Mexican business. Learning from the ground up and being in the trenches. This video is a great example of some of the things not to do when starting out and some of the things that led to successes.

[slapcompany]

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[NaxoOHeavyMeetaL]

thumbs up those who believe that Google abuses to have fifty minutes of video when we ordinary users can have only fifteen minutes Google is created by Bush and Obama

[lotty5110]

This video is so long 