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Is it possible that he did not had a chance to go to college because he grew up in the midst of the cultural revolution? He seems a middle age man, who could be in his late teens/early twenties in the late 1960's, when for the regime any academic degree was suspicious.

The idea for a new product/company comes from a long process of experiencing situations that give you the background to create that new concept/product. Only after that process you are ready to see those "key igniting observations" that allow you to come up with something new.

Thanks _pius and d_p for your responses. I will talk to the folks of Google Ventures.

I have been following closely the development of Startup Weekend in Mexico, and wrote research paper on that. Gustavo and Melina are great :)

This is a nice set of resources. Does anyone know how is behind this initiative in Google?

I am doing my PhD research on the startup ecosystem in Mexico and it would be interested in talking with them about some of my findings.

I am in Mexico too. So either North America if you go for a geographical division, or Latin America, if you wish to characterize culturally.

I think that in this prank there is hidden an interesting experiment, which shows alternative ways to create micropayments. I wonder if you can build a bookmarklet was built it would become less cumbersome to use.

I agree. Only when you know how the pain feels, you are capable to create products that alleviate that pain.

Many people in Latin America or Spain can write great code, but they are not that fluent in English. There was nothing similar before. And among 400 million people that speak Spanish, there are many, many good hackers.