Startups

When I used to work at McKinsey almost 20 years we once did a pro-bono project for the Florida Council of 100 (a non-profit organization comprised of executives of large companies based in Florida), and we realized that contrary to popular perception, most jobs are created by medium and small sized companies. I was reminded […]

Some months ago I wrote a small article titled “Raising Money for your Start-Up?  You Need a Great Pitch Deck”.  I wrote it because I sincerely have seen many poorly done Pitch Decks from Latin American entrepreneurs. Now when day to day work slows down and one has more time to think and research, I […]

As promised in the last blog about how to write a “Pitch Deck”, in this blog I will talk more about the importance of Finance and Accounting for your start-up. We had some investment successes and of course some failures.   Two out of three “failures” have failed as much due to poor financial management as […]

In the last 3 years, at Cisneros Interactive we have talked and seen many entrepreneurs wanting to raise capital.   Honestly, 90% of them may have a great idea but their “Pitch Deck” (usually a powerpoint presentation) is very poor.   I do think that Latin American entrepreneurs are far behind their peers in other countries but […]