Julian Arango

Experience

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  Laneros.com

  Mar 2013 - Jan 2017

  Chief Operations Officer

  Laneros.com es la comunidad de entusiastas de tecnología con mayor trayectoria en Colombia y entre el top 5 de comunidades más relevantes de la última década de LatAm.

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  Grupo Nodal

  Feb 2014 - May 2017

  Co-founder & COO

  • Developed and executed community outreach and financial growth strategies, creating a network of technology professionals while generating positive returns for investors.• Consulted with startups on business modeling, agile methodologies, analytics, and digital marketing

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  Techstars Startup Weekend

  Nov 2014 - now

  Facilitator/Mentor/Organizer/Community Leader

  Organize Techstars Startup Weekend events in Colombia, bringing together entrepreneurs to build the best projects and companies over a span of 54 hours, helping to create and grow the startup ecosystem.Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams, and communities. Activities as Community Leader:• Representing Startup Weekend to the Colombia Ecosystem.• Leading the organization in all processes.• Overall coordination of the event. • Management sponsors. • Choice of Speakers, Mentors, and Judges.• Coordination and delegation of responsibilities within the team. Show less

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  NODO Coworking Space

  May 2015 - Aug 2018

  Co-founder & CEO

  • Identified opportunity to disrupt the office leasing market by co-founding Nodo Coworking, one of the first co-working spaces in Medellin.

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  Emprende con Datos - MINTIC / FINDETER

  Mar 2016 - Sept 2016

  Coordinador

  Project of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies in which I coordinated the mentors' team and the projects with a technological business idea using open data. I was responsible ensure the quality of each of the mentorships carried out through a document manager in 6 cities. Creation of reports and statistics.

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  Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

  Aug 2016 - Sept 2018

  Docente a tiempo parcial

  Docente Módulo SEO, Acciones Online para efectos offline y Mobile Marketing en la Diplomatura de Marketing Digital.

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  Universidad EAFIT

  May 2017 - Aug 2018

  Teacher

  Occasional teacher in the Certification: Digital Marketing in alliance with IAB Colombia.

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  Google

  Feb 2018 - Aug 2019

  GDE: Google Product Strategy Expert

  Google Experts is a global network of experienced product strategists, designers, developers and marketing professionals actively supporting developers, startups and companies changing the world through web and mobile applications.

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  Honduras Digital Challenge

  Apr 2018 - Jan 2022

  Mentor / Judge

  As a mentor, I led 1:1 sessions with entrepreneurs and helped them to understand real problems and potential solutions to construct a successful business.

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  COLATAM

  May 2018 - Jan 2021

  Co-founder & Country Manager Colombia

  Founding team member of the organization of coworking operators focused on contributing to the development of the shared spaces industry and its entire community in Latin America. We sought the contribution and collaboration with any model that cares about people and space, desiring to make Latin America a better place. We acknowledged that has been a fundamental shift in how people choose to work and where they choose to work. That's why Colatam was borns to help grow the most dynamic industry in the world in the most creative region, Latin America. Show less

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  Google Launchpad

  May 2018 - Oct 2019

  Mentor

  I bring to the Google Launchpad Startups support in business development, strategy, marketing, and automation to optimize conversions and qualified leads.

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  Universidad de Palermo

  Aug 2018 - Aug 2018

  Guest Speaker

  Conference: Como escalar tu producto digital sin recursos monetarios en el marco de la cumbre de emprendedores 2018.

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  Factoría Coworking & Hacker Center

  Oct 2018 - Mar 2020

  • Founder & Board Member

    Oct 2018 - Mar 2020

  • Founder & CEO

    Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
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  Workia, Inc.

  Nov 2018 - Oct 2020

  • Founder & CEO

    Jun 2019 - Oct 2020

  • Founder & Head of Product

    Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
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  HackU Educación

  May 2019 - Aug 2022

  Angel Investor

  I helped the founding team in the early days to understand ways to deliver service, design the solution, restructure the team and establish a healthy operation.

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  Hackers/Founders

  Jul 2019 - Mar 2020

  Medellin Chapter Director
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  Founder Institute

  Aug 2019 - Mar 2021

  Country leader

  The Founder Institute is an idea-stage accelerator that helps founders launch enduring tech companies through a structure, mentorship, and a global network. Our mission is to ‘Globalize Silicon Valley’ and empower entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million jobs. https://fi.co/global

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  Torre

  Mar 2020 - Sept 2020

  Head of Operations

  The new platform and network that automates recruiting and finding work. Our mission is to make work fulfilling for all. Join at torre.co, find Work. Talent. Mentoring.As Market Lead, I created a squad/tribe of 30 people to identify and optimize the Job placement process and grow the job offer post on the platform by 30% WoW in Q2.Goals: * Successfully led the tribe and the markets in Bogota, Detroit, and CDMX.* Reach the OKRs in Q2 (K-factor with K>1 in Job Offers).* Optimized the Job Offer process and helped the UX team simplify the user journey. Show less

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  APPS.CO - MinTIC

  Jul 2020 - Dec 2020

  Mentor - Descubrimiento de negocios digitales

  As a business discovery mentor, I had the responsibility of accompanying 12 digital startups from their ideation to the execution of their minimum viable product (MVP), through the Lean Startup methodology. Additionally, strategic support for the understanding of the important metrics to take into account according to your business/industry model.

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  Peewah

  Nov 2020 - Nov 2021

  • Co-Founder & CPO

    Aug 2021 - Nov 2021

  • Co-Founder & COO

    Mar 2021 - Aug 2021

  • CGO

    Jan 2021 - Mar 2021

  • Strategic Advisor

    Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
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  Simpol

  Jan 2021 - Jul 2022

  Angel Investor

  As an advisor, I worked alongside the founders to understand the opportunities, key actions, and creation of the growth strategy.

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  TalentPitch by Interacpedia

  Aug 2021 - Jan 2022

  Head of Product

  As a Head of product, I was responsible for understanding the current roadmap and prioritizing the actions to close the Q4-2021 healthy and planning de 2022 to grow as planning by the CEO and the different stakeholders.Goals: * Postpone the release of the mobile app until Q1 2022 to make a lean PoC and understand the user needs while planning the roadmap. This way we optimize the dev team resources and grow the sprint deliveries by 25% in Q4.* Identify, plan, and execute a new feature to self-serve and job offer matchmaking via WhatsApp with the CX team growing 155% interactions with users vs. the last Q.* Design and execute alongside the team automation via e-mail and WhatsApp to activate and onboard new users, obtaining a 120% of success rate OKRs in Q4. Show less

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  Beu

  Dec 2021 - Jun 2022

  As Chief of growth, I helped the company create the current structure for this area, achieve the Q1 - Q2 goals, and different suggestions to improve the product. As Chief Operations Officer for this short time, I made input about logistics, data/user compliance, agile product implementation, and being part of product planning.

  • CGO

    Feb 2022 - Jun 2022

  • COO

    Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
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  Vaale | Techstars ‘22

  Dec 2022 - May 2023

  • Head of Product

    Apr 2023 - May 2023

  • Head of Operations

    Dec 2022 - Apr 2023
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  El Hub Ventures Studio

  Apr 2023 - now

  Managing Director

  We're a Colombian, and US Venture Studio focused on building the future of Vertical SaaS for Latin-American businesses.

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  New Ventures

  Jul 2023 - now

  Mentor
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  Incubar

  Oct 2023 - now

  Mentor
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  Tecnológico de Monterrey

  Jan 2024 - now

  Mentor

  El Tecnológico de Monterrey es una de las mejores universidades de negocios en México y Latinoamérica. Fui invitado(a) a participar como mentor(a) en su programa de innovación y emprendimiento.

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  Eje Cafetero Tech Week

  Feb 2024 - now

  Co-Founder

  Eje Cafetero Tech Week is an “unconference” — an unbranded week of events hosted by different members of the tech ecosystem all under the umbrella of Eje Cafetero Tech Week. The mission is to showcase what makes Eje Cafetero region Tech Week special, meet people from across venture and startups!

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  Universidad de Los Andes

  May 2024 - now

  Mentor, Entrepreneurship Program

  La universidad de Los Andes es una de las mejores universidades de negocios en Colombia y Latinoamérica. Fui invitado(a) a participar como mentor(a) en su programa de egresados que apoya el emprendimiento y la innovación, Uniandinos.

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  CALMIO

  May 2024 - now

  Angel Investor
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  Validacion.Co

  Jul 2024 - now

  Investor

  Invested through @El Hub Ventures Studio model.