{"id":621,"date":"2013-06-30T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T14:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/?p=621"},"modified":"2018-10-15T17:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T21:00:58","slug":"snapshot-samiron-ray-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2013\/06\/30\/snapshot-samiron-ray-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot:  Samiron Ray &#8217;14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A growing interest in start-ups, incubators and entrepreneurship took Samiron to Santiago to look closely at Start-Up Chile, a program created by the Chilean government that provides grants to entrepreneurs from around the world willing to relocate to Santiago and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2013\/07\/5.9.13Portraits052.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-622\" title=\"5.9.13Portraits052\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2013\/07\/5.9.13Portraits052.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>grow their businesses there. \u201cAlthough Chile is a fast-growing economy and has a stable political system, it has not been traditionally thought of as an entrepreneurial country,\u201d Samiron said; \u201cthe government takes no equity stake in the ventures, but instead hopes that the presence of hundreds of entrepreneurs in Chile will help establish its own version of Silicon Valley.\u201d During his trip, Samiron interviewed program staff, attended Start-Up Chile social events and functions. and met with \u00a0entrepreneurs participating in the program and with lawyers and investors working with them. By talking with \u201cthe people in the trenches,\u201d he was able to look at the financial and business concerns facing the entrepreneurs, ranging from personal liability to employment issues, and explore the ways in which government infrastructures and legal institutions might hinder or support business growth. \u201cI am fascinated by the intersection of law, entrepreneurship, and economic development,\u201d Samiron explained, an interest that he has also explored in working with Harvard\u2019s Innovation Lab and the HLS Cyberlaw Clinic.<\/p>\n<p>(Please visit \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/academics\/degrees\/special-programs\/winter-term\/winter-2013-snapshots.html\">Winter Term 2013: Snapshots from Students<\/a>\u201d to read about other recent projects.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing interest in start-ups, incubators and entrepreneurship took Samiron to Santiago to look closely at Start-Up Chile, a program created by the Chilean government that provides grants to entrepreneurs from around the world willing to relocate to Santiago and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2013\/06\/30\/snapshot-samiron-ray-14\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[550,84965],"tags":[19988,1448,73821],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fellowships","category-student-spotlights","tag-chile","tag-south-america","tag-winter-term-abroad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}