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Yeah, but only technically. His parents were foreign-born, he was a British citizen, his university-level education happened in Oxford and apparently he never worked in Brazil. But Chile's two Nobel Prizes are for Literature, which is cool but not very relevant to the author's point, so we're even. In any case I'm not sure if even science Nobel prizes or top universities' rankings are very relevant indicators regarding web startups. Germany and Japan both have loads of Nobel prize winners and several excellent universities, but we don't see startup hubs in those countries comparable to Silicon Valley or even Israel (proportionally). Well, if you were to assemble a small, elite team of programmers, arguably you'd have better luck in Brazil, or possibly Argentina, than in Chile, based on sheer numbers alone. On the other hand, I believe the average education in Chile is much better: for instance, literacy rate is 96.5% compared to Brazil's 90% (much less if we count functional literacy). Overall, though, I believe Brazil probably is still the best place for investing in startups in South America. See 500 Startups for instance: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-500-Startups-choose-Brazil (I don't completely agree with the top answer, which is a tad too generous to Brazil, but it is instructive.) http://brazilventurecapital.blogspot.com/2011/09/dave-mcclur... |