Fernando Espuelas (b. August 6, 1966 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an American entrepreneur, author, media personality and philanthropist.
Espuelas is one of the pioneers of the consumer Internet. He is the founder of Starmedia, the first pan-Latin Internet portal, launched in 1996. Starmedia was the first venture-capital backed Latin Internet company and also the first IPO in the Latin Internet industry. By the year 2000, Starmedia was the leading ...
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Fernando Espuelas (b. August 6, 1966 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an American entrepreneur, author, media personality and philanthropist.
Espuelas is one of the pioneers of the consumer Internet. He is the founder of Starmedia, the first pan-Latin Internet portal, launched in 1996. Starmedia was the first venture-capital backed Latin Internet company and also the first IPO in the Latin Internet industry. By the year 2000, Starmedia was the leading Latin portal, serving over 25 million Spanish and Portuguese speakers every month across the Latin world.
According to the Harvard Business School case StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution , "by the fall of 1999,StarMedia had sprinted to a sizable lead in the race to acquire Latin American Internet users. Its pan-regional, horizontal portal was the first to target Spanish- and Portuguese-language speakers on the Internet, registering 1.2 billion page views in the third quarter of 1999. Thirty-three-year-old StarMedia co-founder...
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