045: Como Alex Torrenegra logro el exito emprendedor despues de perder $3 Mill USD

Alex Torrenegra started his first business at age 14 in Bogotá, Colombia, with the objective of buying his first computer. After migrating to the US and finding his love of his  life, Tania Zapata, he co-founded Bunny Inc., with the objective of maximizing the productive creativity of human kind, by offering great services that allow all people on earth to participate in the global economy.

He also founded Torrenegra Labs, an incubator that was named one of the top immigrant owned startups in the US by Forbes Magazine. With Torrenegra Labs, he has co-founded and invested in several successful tech companies including WeHostels, VivaReal, and Dashbell. I also co-founded HubBOG, BogoDev, and BogoTech, the three largest communities of web entrepreneurs, software developers, and technologists in Colombia. In 2012 he was honored by MIT’s Technology Review with the TR35 Top Colombian Innovator of the Year award, in 2013 with the NYC Venture Fellowship by the City of New York, and also in 2013 with the High-Impact Entrepreneur title by Endeavor. He is a regular speaker on entrepreneurship, bootstrapping, crowdsourcing, and immigration.

Aprendizajes

• Como empezo su primera empresa a los 14 anios obteniendo un prestamo a tan corta edad
• Como brinco de trabajar en Starbucks y McDonald's a volverse emprendedor enfocado en alta tecnologia
• Lo que aprendio cuando perdio $3 millones de dolares en un startup y como se levanto de esa experiencia
• Como empezo y logro crecer Bunny Inc. una empresa super exitosa que conecta a artistas de voiceover con clientes que los necesitan
• La diferencia entre los emprendedores que tienen exito y los que fracasan
• La importancia de crear un producto excelente
• La importancia de tener mentores para lograr el exito como emprendedor y como obtenerlos
• Como esta impulsando la reforma migratoria en EU logrando una audiencia con el presidente Obama

Recursos y Links

• torrenegralabs
• advisers.io
• bunnyinc
• bogotech
• @torrenegra

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