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Moving to Argentina
I'm an entrepreneur, moving to Argentina.
Anyone know builders, developers, entrepreneurs, or innovative companies hiring in Argentina?
- aristus 18y agoYou'll have lots of fun, regardless. :) Send me an email (in my profile) and I'll check around. I know a few people in Brasil and Venezuela. Maciej Ceglowski of Yahoo Pipes fame spent a year in Argentina, maybe you can ask him? http://www.idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.htm http://www.idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_d...
- davidw 18y agoDirei dal tuo nome che sei italiano... o sbaglio? In any case, good luck, but IMO there are better places to go if you want to avoid some of what's wrong with Italy. Just guessing, though:-)
- guiseppecalzone 18y agoho passato molto tempo en italia, ma non sono italiano. sei italiano?
- maneesh 18y agodove sei stato in italia, ho vissuto a firenze
- zzzmarcus 18y agoI lived in BsAs and Montevideo for over a year (all of 2007). I seriously doubt you'll find a company based in Argentina that will pay you enough to live the lifestyle you want (I'm making a pretty big assumption about your lifestyle based on my lifestyle coming from the US). That having been said, there are tons of smart developers there and the community is pretty great. A lot developers seem to focus on outsourced work for other countries, notably the US. I guess the biggest question is what do you want to do? Are you a web developer? What do you do now? Congrats on the move... I bet you'll love it there. I did.
- wehriam 18y agoHow good is your Spanish? From your perspective, what level of proficiency is required to live in Buenos Aires?
- zzzmarcus 18y agoMy Spanish is good. To live there though, you'll do okay with just basic Spanish. There are lots of tourists and lots of porteños speak some English. In my experience, they really appreciate any effort to speak their language and will work with you to communicate.
- dtaylor 18y agoMy list: - Core Security Technologies: http://www.corest.com http://www.corest.com - Three Melons: http://www.threemelons.com/en/ http://www.threemelons.com/en/ - Sabarasa: http://www.sabarasa.com/ http://www.sabarasa.com/ - Nektra Advanced Computing: http://www.nektra.com http://www.nektra.com - Globant: http://www.globant.com http://www.globant.com - Flaptor: http://www.flaptor.com/ http://www.flaptor.com/ - Popego: http://www.popego.com http://www.popego.com - Zauber: http://zauber.com.ar http://zauber.com.ar
- brl 18y agoInteresting. How did you find the companies you have listed?
- dtaylor 18y agoMy day job is knowing about more advanced companies, beyond common IT services.
- hhm 18y agoVisit http://palermovalley.com/ http://palermovalley.com/ (the event is held once a month or two I believe)... it's useful for networking and full of entrepreneurs, developers and builders. The founders of Core, Popego, Sabarasa, etc. can be found there sometimes too.
- guiseppecalzone 18y agodtaylor and hhm, great links. thank you!
- hhm 18y agoYou're welcome, enjoy your travel! :)
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoIf you're an entrepreneur, why do you care who's hiring? ;-)
- guiseppecalzone 18y agohaha, right on. I just ended an all out, all consuming project. I'm hoping to enjoy the finer things in life in Argentina. Hence, employment (not forever mind you :))
- RobertL 18y agoI think Chile is a better option. Much more capitalist oriented government. Income tax is at just over 40% though but there are lots of jobs, lots of activity, and the government is pro-immigration. Especially if you have technical skills. Also Chile has huge Lithium deposits and could become Saudi Arabia of Lithium if these new electric cars work out. Get your citizenship early. Before everyone starts moving there. After a year of Mr. O this country's entrepreneurs are probably going to be bailing out and the place could get real crowded.
- wheels 18y agoSee, you started off there with an fairly reasonable comment, but then by adding a stupid political zinger, you landed firmly in the wackjob category.
- jbjohns 18y agoOh my, we mustn't say bad things about the new messiah. You should look at the political compass web site sometime to see how different the US politicians actually are. Obama is going to be like any other US president: optionally do some good things, not change some things and make some things worse. The biggest contribution he is likely to make is let us get back to not being embarrassed every time we see our president in the news (well, that and do something sensible about this infernal war).
- laut 18y agoMove from where? Consider getting income from "the first world" (US, Europe etc.). Income levels are not the same in Argentina. But many things are cheaper, such as food. The beef is great :P Computers or other things imported from "the first world" are hit with high import taxes. For instance if you want a laptop take it with you from "the first world" where it's cheaper.
- guiseppecalzone 18y agoMoving from San Francisco, CA. I hear ya. I'm actually just looking to be cash flow neutral where I'm there. No need to make it big. Just keep me going.
- matthewhuebert 18y agoWhy Argentina? I'm considering spending a couple of months there next year to improve my Spanish while I hack away on a web app. A few years ago I lived in Guatemala for awhile and really enjoyed it. The people I met there were really warm and inviting.
- guiseppecalzone 18y agoMy one escape from the computer has been Tango... and as the Tango capital of the world, Argentina is killer. Besides, I'm going to take the first month or so and take intensive Spanish classes. Living in the mission district, my barber never understands how to cut my hair :) If you go down, look me up. I may still be down there. Email: joseph dot walla at gmail dot com
- dannyr 18y agomatt, I'm actually down here in Guatemala right now. Plan is to continue developing the app for my startup but I have been busy studying Spanish and doing the tourist stuff. I'm in Xela right now and will be moving on to san Pedro and Antigua. I will be back in the US by the end of January.
- compay 18y agoIf you want to go grab a beer and talk about the local scene, drop me a line. I'm an American web developer who's lived down here for about 6 years. My email is norman@randomba.org.
- rabble 18y agoI'm a rails developer, working on setting up an office in Montevideo for entp.com, i was the architect on yahoo fire eagle, and worked with the yahoo folks on pipes, before that i built odeo.com. Needless to say, i do startup stuff. There are lots of good developers here, both Montevideo and Buenos Aires. The overhead of running / logistics of a company here are much harder than the US, but the cost of doing business is lower, with a few exceptions. You need 10 months deposit to rent an office! Crazy expensive. Also paperwork on incorporation is a pain in the ass. There's a MontevideoValley and PalermoValley, which are more biz focused groups in both cities trying to cultivate startup culture. I recommend you go to their meetings, hang out / work from the coworking spaces... (we're starting one in montevideo, there are currently two in buenos aires). Hope that helps.
- guiseppecalzone 18y agoVery helpful. You mind if I ping you when I get down there? It'd be great to compare notes.
- llopatin 18y agoHi there, I'm the CTO of United Virtualities with our main production office (and myself) based in Buenos Aires. There are some pretty neat tech companies in BA in the lookout for talent and you'll have a blast here as well. Do contact me at llopatin@unitedvirtualities.com.
- guiseppecalzone 18y agoThanks for the reply! I just emailed you.
- diego 18y agoDitto. I'm Diego, founder/CEO of Flaptor (and friend of llopatin). I lived and worked in the Bay Area for several years (the first .com cycle) and then started Flaptor in Buenos Aires. I'll be happy to share my experiences, my email is in my profile.
- known 18y agoTry http://buenosaires.en.craigslist.org/jjj/ http://buenosaires.en.craigslist.org/jjj/
- kragen 18y agoBar Camp Buenos Aires last year was lots of fun; you can check out my post about it. I missed it this year. It's true that Chile is more capitalist; that could be an advantage or disadvantage depending on your point of view. My wife and I just got our work visas last week after working on it for a year and a half. (It's much easier if you aren't trying to set up a new Argentine company, without Argentine employees or partners, at the same time.)
- maneesh 18y agoHey there, I'm a freelance rails developer, done a bunch of startups and working on several new ones based in Europe and the US and I've been here for 3 months already. This city is amazing, and I've met a lot of programmers (even American ones doing the Tim Ferriss thing). When do you arrive? Feel free to email me, msethi@stanford.edu.
- pibefision 18y agoHi!. I'm from Buenos Aires too. We have BarCamp, WordCamp, PallermoValley, TweetBaires, Starbucks, and a few Apple resellers. What else do you need to live here?
- guiseppecalzone 18y agoHaha. I like how you added Starbucks to your list. Drop me a line and we'll get some coffee when I arrive. My email is joseph dot walla at gmail.
- JP1 18y agoHey J.P. here! I work in keegy.com, and help with the organization of PalermoValley.com Glad to see that some of the folks (Llopatin, Diego) already gave you a nice welcome :-) In just one HN thread you managed to meet some of the top Argentinean IT players :-P I'll love to share a glass of wine with you and the rest of the guys that just commented, so drop me a line: JuanPablo(at)Keegy.com