If you don't mind, I've a couple questions: One of the areas that they are least clear on in their FAQs, etc, is how you do the community outreach projects. W

If you don't mind, I've a couple questions: One of the areas that they are least clear on in their FAQs, etc, is how you do the community outreach projects. What are some of the different things you can do to earn these points? Do all of them involve public speaking? (I'd rather meat with 40 chileans who want to do startups one on one than give a presentation in front of all 40 of them at once, for instance.) How tied are you to Santiago? I've been to Santiago and it's a wonderful city, but I was wondering if locating in Valparaiso, or Vino del mar, or even Punta Arenas was viable? I know they want to support entrepreneurs across chile, so locating elsewhere is seemingly a valued goal, but I'm not sure how much of the program presumes you're in santiago. In fact, is it possible to earn your entrepreneur in residence points outside of santiago? How difficult did you find the visa situation? What all did you need to do in advance of finding out if you got in? (I've heard that getting FBI's background check can take up to 4 months, but that it is only accepted by the chileans for 3 months after being issued. This means you could apply, not get it back from the FBI until after you should be in Chile... or get it far enough in advance to be sure you got it by the time you needed to be in chile, and have it come quickly and then be out of date....) Have you learned spanish? It turns out I know a lot more spanish than I thought I did, but my memory is that not many chileans know english. I see they have a nice new office. We tend to get an apartment and each live/work in a bedroom, and save on office expenses. How much of the program is tied towards being in the office every day, vs, working in the apartment? How are the nice/upscale apartments in santiago in comparison to the stipend you can pay for housing out of the reimbursement money? Is there an apartment building that is popular with startup chile businesses? Is doing a 6 month lease very difficult? We've not got a lot of connections in latin america, is that really important to getting in, or is it more important to be a quality startup? I think we've got the quality startup thing nailed, hopefully, but our network of entrepreneurs is small, and very lacking south of central america. Also, we really just started the company a month ago, but we're going to have a MVP out next month, and plan to do a launch in January-February timeframe. Will this make us too developed for Startup Chile? Or do you think that having giving them a product to talk up right off the bat would be good for our chances of being accepted? (Hopefully from our MVP, we'll even have some traction...) Thanks in advance!