The city of Miami It has always been characterized by the spectacular beaches and unparalleled party nights, as well as being a unique place to see caimans and iguanas strolling through the streets, now it is also going to start to stand out in the technological field.
By MiamiDiario Newsroom
According to experts now in Miami they begin appear the so-called "iguanacorns", which are a local variation of the "unicorns," a name they use for technology companies that exceeds 1.000 million dollars, asserted tecreview.tec.mx.
Between the "unicorns»that Miami has that help to position it as a "technological city", are ParkJockey in the parking business Magic Leap in the area of virtual reality.
Are also found “accelerator” companies and risk funds that contribute in the technological field , the 500 Startups and TheVentureCity, the latter created in 2017 with the aim of offering Hispanics and Europeans the opportunities they do not have in Silicon Valley due to lack of contacts.
The former Facebook executive and co-founder of TheVentureCity, Laura González-Estéfani, asserted that "not everyone comes from Stanford, Columbia, MIT and has their 'networks' developed in San Francisco", for that reason his organization seeks to "identify the best entrepreneurs who are outside of Silicon Valley, and help them »
Venture City
According to González-Estéfani, these new entrepreneurs calls them, "iguanacorns", asserts that “it is the way we qualify the unicorns that come from emerging technological centers”.
Miami Globalism
53% of the 2,7 million inhabitants who live in Miami were born abroad, and precisely this diversity offers hedge funds exceptional access to markets from the east coast of United States, Latin America and Europe, assert specialists in this area.
Other aspects that make it easier for Miami to position itself as a technological center are the low taxes, the low costs of living when compared to San Francisco and New York, the geographical location and the good weather almost most months of the year.
The director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Miami, Brian Breslin, still the cyclic element is missing for Miami is established as a "tech hub." This implies that the point has not yet been reached where the workers of the companies earn a lot of money and start creating their own business.
But, Breslin believe that they will soon be in that situation.
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