I am from Medellin and eventhough I am not living here anymore, I come every vacation period to visit my family. Things have definitely changed for good and th

I am from Medellin and eventhough I am not living here anymore, I come every vacation period to visit my family. Things have definitely changed for good and the city is becoming an important economic hotspot for LatAm, a product of that is the enhancement of the tech scene off course. The government is financing entrepreneurial acts through non-profits, specially those that are tech-focused; the city has been a national art epicenter for a long time (which correlates strongly with entrepreneurial mindset) and the 2 public universities in the city are great. Internet penetration in the country is exponentially increasing (pretty much everyone in the major cities has a connection); pretigious accelerators such as Socialatom Ventures exist and the country has examples of tech companies that are targeting global markets such as Koombea in Barranquilla and Authy (YC S12) and Bunny Inc in Bogota. However, the deepest problem right now is our mentality. VC firms here are only interested in investing in copy cats, they just wanna play it safe and replicate what has worked in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv. In addition to that there's a really small amount of people interested in computer programming, or having the rule-breaking mentality that renowed personalities such as Paul Graham remark the importance of. Things have definitely improoved, but we are really far away of making everyone "move here".