Mexican Computer Programmers Bring Start-Up 'Hostspot' to Silicon Valley Hispanically Speaking News
go to original February 3, 2014

Mexican programmers Edgar Hernandez, Jose Alberto Garcia and Abraham Cornejo quit their jobs and bet everything on a dream called Hostspot that has taken them to Silicon Valley.

Hostspot was born at a “hackathon” in Mexico City, where the team won a programming contest by developing a functioning program, which could gauge consumer behavior at stores and restaurants, in less than 24 hours.

“The prize was to go and represent (Mexico) in the finals in Silicon Valley, so we decided to bet it all on our start-up, rented an office and got down to work. Abraham quit his job and Beto and I dropped our ventures to focus entirely on Hostspot, and that’s how it was born,” Hernandez told Efe.

The programmers spent three months raising money after winning the Mexico City stop of the AngelHack competition so they could travel to San Francisco, where the world round of the hackathon took place.

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