Por Javier el 12 December 2007
Jordi Castello speaks in his blog about Ale Estrada, founder of DineroMail and presents it as an alternative to Paypal for Latin America.
On one hand, it’s true that some countries of Latin America have many problems related to payments from abroad. It’s a pity that in today’s day and age, there are rulers with outdated ideas, and it seems that there are too many such rulers in Latin America.
And on the other hand, the fact that the founder of DineroMail comes from the business of Private Banking could be very interesting when it comes to the business development of this project. Often, we internet entrepreneurs could have very good intentions, but finally the knowledge of the market in question is the determining factor for the success of a project like this.
DineroMail is available for Argentina, Mexico and Chile. The payments are made using email. It’s possible to use this payment system for e-commerce sites.
Por Javier el 7 December 2007
The other day we were talking about DineroMail and how little was known about the investment from Clarin, now there’s a rumor going around that Martin Varsavsky could also have invested.
Carlos Blanco gives us this news in the blog OjoInternet, the sister blog of OjoBuscador and dedicated to internet business.
Since I don’t have more information, I won’t talk more about this rumor, but I do want to emphasize the following: South America is drawing my attention due to the big projects being hatched over there, some of them much bigger than projects in Spain. Talking about DineroMail, Gaston Bercun comments that it could be valued at 22 million dollars. There are other eye-catching examples of this, like Mercado Libre that went public or the “couldn’t be better” acquisition of Patagon by Banco Santander for 528 million dollars.
I think I’m not mistaken if I say that these huge successes are due to the world-class entrepreneurs in South America, with very clear ideas and a great capacity for doing business. Without doubt the mainstay is Martin Varsavsky, but other names come to mind like Wenceslao Casares (founder of Patagon), Fernando Espuelas (founder of Starmedia and starting up Voy), Marcos GalperÃn, Alec Oxenford, Matias de Tezanos (founder of ClickDiario and starting up Healthcare), Gonzalo Arzuaga (founder of GauchoNet and starting up Killerstartups), …
