High-Impact Entrepreneurship

From June 30th to July 2nd, Endeavor Colombia—with important logistical support from Endeavor Uruguay—hosted an Immersion Tour. Fifteen Entrepreneurs and two VentureCorps from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay visited Bogotá to identify business opportunities, participating in a range of meetings and forums with entrepreneurs, business leaders, investment funds, consultants, and investment promotion agencies.

Overall, sessions stressed Colombia’s growing attractiveness to investors, and the various investment resources available to entrepreneurs within Colombia. More broadly, participants came away with a renewed appreciation for “looking outward.” International markets, the Tour reinforced, can be a valuable source of business models, products, and services that can be replicated and imported locally; rather than seeing foreign businesses as competition, entrepreneurs can learn from and adapt them, and in many cases find opportunities for partnership and investment.