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15 February 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Four Key Lessons In Six Months

A few days ago Lenguajero turned 6 months old. It’s hard to believe how much our little bootstrapped Latin America startup has grown in these last 6 months, but more importantly how our knowledge has grown with it.
As we built the site in Colombia, expanded on it from Costa Rica and Ecuador, and finally [...]

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10 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

EDUKWEST Interview

On Friday we had a great opportunity to sit down and talk to Kirsten Winkler for an EDUKWEST interview about Lenguajero. Here is the interview. Let us know if you have any feedback, comments, questions etc.

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08 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Lenguajero Member Demographics

Earlier today we had a great opportunity to sit down and talk with Kirsten Winkler for her interview series at EDUKWEST. During the interview she asked us a few questions about our member metrics. At the time we didn’t have exact numbers.
Part of the reason is that Google Analytics, although a great [...]

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30 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Two Month Report

It’s been a busy second month for the Lenguajero team, although we will admit to packing our laptops and heading to Puerto Escondido for a week of part work/part beach bumming.
Over the last month we have continued to crank out new features, sign up new members, and promote our site. Here’s what was new [...]

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01 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Lenguajero on MatadorAbroad

The great travel blog network Matador published an article (written by me) about how to build a startup while living in Latin America. Read on…
Thinking of building a web startup? Doing it on the road is not just feasible; it might be less stressful and more fun, too.
Nine months ago my partner Natalie and [...]

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17 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Quest to Master Spanish Evolves Into Web 2.0 Startup

A guest post I did for the Latin America travel blog Travelojos.
The idea was to cram everything we owned into a storage unit and head out on the road, writes August Flanagan–co-founder of Spanish learning website Lenguajero.  The goal, learn Spanish.  The destination, Latin America.

View of Medellin from our apartment/office
From the beaches of Mexico to [...]

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16 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

The tools of the trade

When most people think of a startup they think of a small group of people tucked away in a small office somewhere with a bank of monitors lighting the room. That’s not how we do things here at Lenguajero, so I decided to show you what powers Lenguajero, and where we run the site from.
The [...]

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