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event details
May 14, 2013
from 5:30pm to 9:00pm
address City Winery
street 1200 West Randolph Street
city/town Chicago
organized by BMA Chicago
type
Education Networking Speaker
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event description
Get ready to accelerate your thinking with Fuel – a new event from BMA Chicago, featuring an evening keynote, high-tech expo for marketers, cocktails and networking.
New marketing technology seems to be sprouting up every day – from augmented reality to marketing automation to big data solutions and beyond. It can be hard to keep up with all of the new technology, let alone figure out how to incorporate it into your own business.
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Two other places come to mind as burgeoning tech hubs: Chile and China
Chile has really backed a fully realized entrepreneurial initiative. Startup Chile puts 80+ companies through their government backed accelerator every year with a $40K and doesn't take any equity. This program is available for all startups, not just Chilean ones, with no obligation to incorporate in Chile. Backing this with their low 20% (last time I checked) corporate tax rate, absolutely fantastic IP laws for startups, and a host of other factors, and they have an entrepreneurial ecosystem that is turning into something really worthwhile.
China's technology business sector is straight-up blowing up like it's nobody's business. Many accelerators, an incredible wealth of skilled developers/technologists, and a healthy (but still maturing) investment culture have all helped create this. The barriers to entry are really incorporating in China itself, it's a high bureaucracy country with a tax-rate comparable to that of the U.S. However, many entrepreneurs have taken to incorporating in Hong Kong, which is arguably the most business friendly country on the planet, and doing business in mainland China due to the friendly business relationship between Hong Kong and the mainland. The reason it might be off map is that, with a population above 1.4 billion and well over a billion smart phones, startups have an incredible local market and are less inclined to look abroad.