Author: Leonardo Shapiro

Many years ago, while I was living in Mexico City, I saw the advertising of theatrical play called: “La importancia de llamarse Ernesto” (The importance of being called Ernesto). As you know, Ernesto is a Spanish name. When this happened, I was very young to actually know who Oscar Wilde was, but the title got […]

Over the weekend, I found myself watching a fairy tale on TV…one of the ones we all saw when we were young. The oppressed princess who had a very hard life, yet somehow got to meet her knight in shiny armor, was rescued from a mighty dragon and at the end, “they lived happily ever […]

“Echando a perder se aprende” “By breaking things, you learn” How do you cope with failure?  Can you tolerate it? In Mexico and Latin America, failure is bad, I mean really bad. We live in a culture where labels are everywhere, and they are so hard to erase. I was having a meeting with one […]

“Cuando fuiste martillo no tuviste clemencia, ahora que eres yunque, ten paciencia” “When you were a hammer you had no mercy, now that you are an anvil, be patient” What is a VC? what do they do? once again let’s refer to our friends of Wikipedia: Venture capital (VC) is financial capital provided to early-stage, […]

“More is accomplished by will than by capacity” A few months ago, when starting the school year, I got an email from my son’s middle school principal: Dear Blach Families, I always put a lot of thought, time, and energy into the start of each school year and this year was no different. My goal […]

“For a kid with a hammer, everything is a nail” Is entrepreneurship for you ? Probably this is a question that everyone considering jumping into this adventure has made to himself more than once. So… if you normally tell your ideas to your friends & family and you get a few pats of your back […]